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Axe-Head

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
1912
Dimensions
18 cm
Presented by
Henry Oppenheimer through The Art Fund
Bronze axe head, inlaid with silver, representing an ibex attacked by a tiger, who in turn is attacked by a boar.

It seems certain that the axe was entirely cermonial as the edge is blunt. Initially thought to be related to the Bactrian art of 300-200 BC. Now attributed to 2500 to 2000 BC.

Bronze

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 Acquired 1910
Glass goblet
 Acquired 1924
Gion in Kyoto
 Acquired 2005
Gilt metal boss
 Acquired 1916
Gigaku Mask
 Acquired 1954
Geraint and Enid
 Acquired 1924
Funerary vase & figurines
 Acquired 1944
Funerary stela of Ptaherhatef
 Acquired 2006
Frau und zwei Buben in Segelboot
 Acquired 1999
Fragment of gold frieze
 Acquired 1957
Fox-Hunting
 Acquired 1933
Four studies of goats
 Acquired 1997
Four standing female nudes and a child
 Acquired 1997
Four Japanese painted cedar doors
 Acquired 1958
Four Indian miniatures
 Acquired 1941
Four gold rosettes
 Acquired 1963
Four carved wooden panels
 Acquired 1944
Five studies for portraits
 Acquired 1928
Five sketchbooks
 Acquired 1992
Five Russian Revolutionary plates
 Acquired 1991
Fire at the Vinegar Workson the Wensum at Norwich
 Acquired 1905
Figures by the Base of a Column (recto) & Study of a Nude (verso)
 Acquired 1996
Figure of meditating Bodhisattva
 Acquired 1963
Figure of Buddha
 Acquired 1962
Figure of a Running Girl
 Acquired 1941
Figure astride a rearing horse, seen from the front
 Acquired 1997
Female Ghost carrying off a Male Severed Head
 Acquired 1996
Feast Ladle
 Acquired 1949
Fascination of Nature
 Acquired 1998
Ewer
 Acquired 1998
Entrance to the Hotel Splendide, Mentone
 Acquired 1923
Entrance to a Synagogue at Regensburg
 Acquired 1924
Enthroned Virgin
 Acquired 1956
Ensemble from 'The Path of Roses'
 Acquired 2004
Engraving with Two Sphinxes
 Acquired 1909
Engraved gold disc
 Acquired 1942
Engraved glass goblet
 Acquired 2002
Empress pepperpot
 Acquired 1994
Empress Livia as the Goddess Ceres
 Acquired 2000
Emperor Jahangir giving an Audience
 Acquired 1933
Emiliano Zapata and his Horse
 Acquired 2009
Elvis
 Acquired 2015
Elizabethan ivory seal-matrix
 Acquired 1944
Elgin Amphora
 Acquired 2004
Egyptian Plaster Cast
 Acquired 1958
Egyptian limestone stela
 Acquired 2001
Early Christian Silver Vase
 Acquired 1951
Drum with Owl Face
 Acquired 1949
Drinking glass
 Acquired 2004
Drawings/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawings/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawings
 Acquired 1914
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing of a man and three ladies
 Acquired 1997
Draughtsman depicting the death of a saint
 Acquired 1907
Drachenfels on the Rhine
 Acquired 2002
Dover Castle
 Acquired 1948
Double-sided sheet of Studies
 Acquired 1953
Douarnenez and the Ile Tristan & Stinkweed
 Acquired 1927
Door-knocker with lion-head
 Acquired 1909
Dives and Lazarus
 Acquired 1918
Dish
 Acquired 1922
Disasters of War
 Acquired 1999
Dipylon pitcher & cup
 Acquired 1915
Dinan: Street Scene
 Acquired 1939
Diana and the Nymphs at the Hunt
 Acquired 1964
Despair (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2011
Designs for book illustrations
 Acquired 1933
Designs
 Acquired 1932
Design for a wall decoration
 Acquired 1952
Design for a pulpit
 Acquired 1958
Design for a ceiling panel with the Holy Family and angels
 Acquired 1997
Delft ware bowl
 Acquired 1911
David and Bathsheba
 Acquired 1997
David and Absalom
 Acquired 1961
Daniel proving Susannah's innocence
 Acquired 1946
Dance celebrating a Remission of Taxes
 Acquired 1961
Cylinder seals
 Acquired 1945
Cycladic Figurine
 Acquired 2011
Cupid and Psyche
 Acquired 1957
Covered fluted glass
 Acquired 1992
Coup du départ et embarquement sur les galères & Retour des galères
 Acquired 1932
Cottage
 Acquired 1948
Coriolanus receiving the Roman Matrons
 Acquired 1917
Corinth's Monument to Actium (The Guildford or Cornith Puteal)
 Acquired 2003
Corfu: A Lane with Figures
 Acquired 1939
Copper peg & limestone tablet
 Acquired 1974
Copper currency shield
 Acquired 1929
Composition & Woman under Tree & after Bellange-Samson
 Acquired 1947
Colombian Antiquities
 Acquired 1955
Collecton of engravings and etchings
 Acquired 1929
Collection of twelve Indian coins
 Acquired 1929
Collection of Three Drawings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of Three Drawings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of three bronze vessels
 Acquired 1929
Collection of Swedish Artefacts
 Acquired 1921
Collection of studies and sketches
 Acquired 2003
Collection of sketches
 Acquired 1933
Collection of over 600 coins
 Acquired 1988
Collection of Muhammedan coins
 Acquired 1911
Collection of Mexican posters
 Acquired 2008
Collection of Japanese ceramics
 Acquired 1980
Collection of Italian medals
 Acquired 1912
Collection of gold jewellery
 Acquired 1960
Collection of Glasses
 Acquired 1938
Collection of five watercolours
 Acquired 1968
Collection of Five Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Collection of ethnographic items
 Acquired 2003
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of embroidered textiles
 Acquired 2002
Collection of coins, medals, tokens & badges
 Acquired 2006
Collection of Chinese porcelain
 Acquired 1909
Collection of carvings
 Acquired 1944
Collection of Caricature Drawings
 Acquired 1937
Collection of 95 paintings and drawings
 Acquired 1955
Collection of 9 Egyptian antiquities
 Acquired 1922
Collection of 6 Engravings
 Acquired 1933
Collection of 5 Torcs
 Acquired 1969
Collection of 2599 engraved British portraits
 Acquired 1943
Collection of 250 pieces of Peruvian Pottery
 Acquired 1909
Collection of 25 pieces of pottery & display case
 Acquired 1928
Collection of 23 ethnographical specimens & pieces of jewellery
 Acquired 1972
Coins from the Salcombe Treasure
 Acquired 1999
Coin portrait of Mohur of Akbar
 Acquired 1930
Coin of Septimius Severus
 Acquired 1998
Coin of Anarevitos
 Acquired 2011
Coblentz
 Acquired 1946
Cloaked figure walking to the left
 Acquired 1997
Citole
 Acquired 1963
Circular ornament with a satyr and a candelabrum
 Acquired 1997
Circular brooch & Pair of clasps
 Acquired 1916
Circular badge for a hat
 Acquired 1911
Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection of Mezzotints
 Acquired 2010
Christ, the Virgin and Symbols of the Four Evangelists
 Acquired 1921
Christ shown to the people
 Acquired 1997
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St. John
 Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St. John
 Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St John
 Acquired 1918
Christ on the Cross between Mary and St John
 Acquired 1928
Christ offering his Disciples the Holy Communion at the Last Supper
 Acquired 2001
Christ carrying the Cross
 Acquired 1997
Christ before Pilate
 Acquired 1922
Christ and the Woman of Samaria + sketch for Christ Risen
 Acquired 1997
Choirine Relief
 Acquired 2007
Chinese water pot & Damascus tile
 Acquired 1925
Chinese Porcelain Figure
 Acquired 1935
Chinese colour prints
 Acquired 1932
Chinese Buddhist Figure
 Acquired 1919
Chilo Lacedaemonius
 Acquired 1977
Chelsea Vase
 Acquired 1930
Charles V
 Acquired 1909
Charles of Egmont, Duke of Gueldres and Elizabeth, Duchess of Gelders
 Acquired 1932
Chalcolithic Figurine
 Acquired 2005
Celtic Desborough mirror
 Acquired 1924
Carved Wooden Head of Buddha
 Acquired 1950
Carved wooden figure of Amida
 Acquired 1945
Carved whalebone panel
 Acquired 1907
Carved ivory panel
 Acquired 1914
Caricature of a man seen from behind
 Acquired 1997
Cameo Portrait of Claudius
 Acquired 1939
Cameo bust of Octavian
 Acquired 1996
Calumny of Apelles
 Acquired 1959
Calamelli Foot
 Acquired 2011
Bust of Charles Townley
 Acquired 1995
Bust of a Zeus Serapis
 Acquired 1970
Bust of a Woman in a Hat, 1644 & Bust of a Man in a Hat
 Acquired 1921
Buntingdon Figure
 Acquired 2000
Buildings with a water-mill, and hills in the background
 Acquired 1997
Builders constructing a house
 Acquired 1997
Buddhist head
 Acquired 1943
Bronze statuette
 Acquired 1955
Bronze Roman vase
 Acquired 1947
Bronze Reclining Banqueter
 Acquired 1954
Bronze Helmet
 Acquired 1968
Bronze head
 Acquired 1944
Bronze Buddha
 Acquired 1942
Bridle-bit
 Acquired 1910
Bridge over a Stream
 Acquired 1948
Bramerton Common
 Acquired 1926
Boy and Girl by a Stile
 Acquired 1906
Bonneville, Savoy
 Acquired 1923
Bodiless I (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2009
Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter
 Acquired 1937
Bingen on the Rhine
 Acquired 1946
Bell-Krater
 Acquired 1961
Beheading of St Barbara
 Acquired 1966
Beach Scene with fishing boats
 Acquired 1948
Battle Scene
 Acquired 1954
Basin shaped disc
 Acquired 1913
Basalt Head
 Acquired 1958
Bas-relief of The Triumph of Vespasian from the Arch of Titus, Rome
 Acquired 1992
Banner painting of Guatama Buddha
 Acquired 1944
Ballyvaughan, Evening
 Acquired 1926
Bagpiper
 Acquired 1997
Aztec mask
 Acquired 1926
Axe-Head
 Acquired 1912
Avignon: Palace of Popes and Cathedral
 Acquired 1939
Aureus of the Roman emperor Carausius
 Acquired 2009
Aurelius Urscinus spoons
 Acquired 1994
Astronomical and musical pedestal clock
 Acquired 1992
Astrolabe quadrant
 Acquired 2008
Assumption of the Virgin
 Acquired 1997
Assembly of the Gods
 Acquired 1992
Ascension of Elijah
 Acquired 1997
Artist and his Wife walking in a Landscape
 Acquired 2001
Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography
 Acquired 2011
Armoured knight fighting wild men in a wood
 Acquired 1997
Arion sitting on a dolphin playing a 'lira da braccio'
 Acquired 1997
Architectural Studies
 Acquired 1946
Arab bowl
 Acquired 1924
Appledore coin hoard
 Acquired 1998
Anglo-Saxon sword pommel
 Acquired 1994
Anglo-Saxon objects
 Acquired 1942
Anglo-Saxon Jewellery, Glass, Pottery
 Acquired 1905
Anglo-Saxon fitting from a sword scabbard
 Acquired 1999
Anglo-Saxon Amuletic Figure
 Acquired 2001
Angels dancing in a circle
 Acquired 1997
Angel seated on a cloud playing a lute
 Acquired 1997
Andrea Doria offering a sacrifice
 Acquired 2005
An unfinished marble youth
 Acquired 1920
An Old Testament Prophet
 Acquired 1940
An old man asleep on the ground
 Acquired 1997
An old lighthouse with sailing boats in the background
 Acquired 1997
An Italian Bridge
 Acquired 1935
An Elizabethan Livery Pot
 Acquired 1981
An Assemblage of Works of Art in Sculpture and in Painting
 Acquired 1994
An Apple Tree
 Acquired 2002
An Allegory
 Acquired 1971
An Album of Drawings
 Acquired 1951
An album of 70 sketches
 Acquired 1927
Amuletic jewelled scarab
 Acquired 1999
Alton hoard of Iron Age coins & Roman jewellery
 Acquired 1996
Allegory on Life and Death
 Acquired 1997
Allegory of the month of March
 Acquired 1997
Allegory of the month of April
 Acquired 1997
Allegory of the Arts
 Acquired 1997
Allegory of Love and Death
 Acquired 1933
Allegory of Ill Fortune
 Acquired 1921
Allegory of Fortune
 Acquired 1997
Allegorical figure Pride
 Acquired 1944
Album of Sketches
 Acquired 1913
Album of Indian Portraits
 Acquired 1935
Album of Drawings
 Acquired 1938
Album of 50 drawings of flowers, fruit and insects
 Acquired 1962
Albarello or Pharmacy Jar
 Acquired 1905
Albarello or Pharmacy Jar
 Acquired 1905
Albanian Palikars
 Acquired 1922
Adoration of the Magi
 Acquired 1941
Adam and Eve in Paradise
 Acquired 1922
Achaemenid ibex
 Acquired 1988
Achaemenid bowl
 Acquired 1994
Achaemenid bowl
 Acquired 2006
Abigail coming with presents to King David
 Acquired 1927
A Youth in Fancy Dress
 Acquired 1975
A Young Woman Seated in an Arm Chair
 Acquired 1948
A Wooded Landscape
 Acquired 1912
A Woman Leaning Against a Pillar
 Acquired 1946
A Woman and Child
 Acquired 1905
A Water Mill
 Acquired 1948
A Virgin Martyr
 Acquired 1946
A View of the Inside of a Sepulchral Church
 Acquired 2000
A study in perspective
 Acquired 1997
A standing angel
 Acquired 1997
A sheet of studies
 Acquired 1951
A sheet from a sketch book
 Acquired 1952
A seated woman seen from the back
 Acquired 1997
A seated figure holding a book
 Acquired 1997
A seal of 'The Free Grammar School of Elizabeth Queen of England'
 Acquired 1965
A Roman Relief
 Acquired 1954
A putto holding a sickle and a bunch of grapes
 Acquired 1997
A pair of Ice Pails
 Acquired 1983
A moth
 Acquired 1997
A man seen from below
 Acquired 1997
A Man Pruning the Roots of an Apple Tree
 Acquired 1929
A man leaning on a table holding a fan in his left hand
 Acquired 1997
A Lady Playing a Psaltery
 Acquired 1969
A Katabathra of Lake Copais
 Acquired 1997
A Jug
 Acquired 2015
A jewelled necklace
 Acquired 1941
A Hunter on Horseback
 Acquired 1995
A hare
 Acquired 1997
A hanging piece of drapery
 Acquired 1997
A Group of French Cavalry Officers
 Acquired 1928
A Group beside a Well
 Acquired 1908
A grotesque panel
 Acquired 1997
A Garden Fete
 Acquired 1921
A Farmhouse on the Banks of a River with Herdsman on a Ferry
 Acquired 1992
A Fantastic Castle
 Acquired 1935
A dying bishop, with monks and angels
 Acquired 1997
A drunken peasant emptying a glass on the ground
 Acquired 1997
A Demon and One of the Damned
 Acquired 1946
A Cupid
 Acquired 1946
A collection of Oriental antiquities
 Acquired 1948
A collection of animal-style bronzes
 Acquired 1950
A Coast Scene with Warships Firing a Salute
 Acquired 1983
A cascade at the Villa d'Este
 Acquired 1920
A butterfly
 Acquired 1997
A Bird on a Branch Catching a Fly
 Acquired 1946
A Bend in the Severn
 Acquired 1915
9 medallion portraits
 Acquired 1906
7 pieces of Persian pottery
 Acquired 1923
7 etchings
 Acquired 1904
6 woodcuts & an engraving
 Acquired 1922
6 pieces of Tang dynasty pottery
 Acquired 1910
6 miniature paintings of the Moghul School
 Acquired 1942
6 designs for Dishes, Silver Cup & Architectural Facade
 Acquired 1909
5 tiles
 Acquired 1907
5 pen and ink drawings
 Acquired 1906
49 Pieces of Porcelain
 Acquired 2001
45 items from the Sedgwick bequest (BC-AD)
 Acquired 1968
44 etchings
 Acquired 1924
4 subjects from Turner's Liber Studiorum
 Acquired 1920
4 Lamaistic objects from Lhasa
 Acquired 1910
4 designs for glass roundels
 Acquired 1922
3 scenes from the Passion
 Acquired 1922
3 pieces of Persian pottery
 Acquired 1925
3 drawings of The Story of Lot
 Acquired 1922
3 coins & 2 tokens
 Acquired Not in Review
2-handled posset bowl
 Acquired 1909
2 mediaeval alabaster carvings
 Acquired 1910
2 Limestone reliefs
 Acquired 1959
2 drawings of The Parable of the Good Samaritan
 Acquired 1922