© British Museum
Japanese bowl
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1910
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Presented by
- Kenneth Dingwall through The Art Fund
Japanese Bowl with 'dragon skin' glaze, said to be the earliest Satsuma ware made by the Coreans, but perhaps later.
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Southern Indian Jain Statuettes
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Sir Robert Walpole addressing a meeting
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Portrait of a man
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Portrait medal of Cornelia Siciliana
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Portrait medal
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Portrait drawing of Dr H W Bellows of New York
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Portait of a Lady Standing
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Portable altar
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Porcelain Dutchman
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Porcelain dishes
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Poet's Dream
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Po Lo
Acquired 1944
Pines and Mountains
Acquired 1939
Phaeton demanding the Chariot of the Sun
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Peruvian Textiles
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Persian Winebowl
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Persian Pottery
Acquired 1915
Persian Pottery
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Persian dish
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Persian bowl & cup
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Persian bowl
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Peasants at a Table in the Open Air
Acquired 1946
Peasant man
Acquired 1948
Part of the Ruins of Caesar's Palace at Rome
Acquired 1948
Paper Money
Acquired 1933
Palmerston gold chocolate cups
Acquired 2005
Pair of Stirrups
Acquired 1949
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Acquired 1941
Pair of Delft dishes & a Bristol Delft jar
Acquired 1943
P'an
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Oriental manuscript volumes and Indian miniatures
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Oriental Huntsman
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Old Master drawings, prints and mezzotints
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Oinochoe (jug)
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Octavian as Mercury (The Ionides Gem)
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Noah's Ark
Acquired 1997
Nine Caricatures
Acquired 1913
Nimrud Ivories
Acquired 2011
Nessus and Deianeira
Acquired 1933
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Acquired 1909
Neck of a lime flask & Figure of a woman
Acquired 1940
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Acquired 1948
Native North American Carved Ladle
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Ming vase & candlesticks
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Mezzotint Portraits
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Mer de Glace
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Mentone & Monaco
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Mehmed II, Sultan of Turkey
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Mancus of Coenwulf, King of Mercia
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Madonna and Child
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Life of Joseph, 8 designs for stained glass
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Landscape in the manner of Callot
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Landscape drawing with figures
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Landscape drawing
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Landscape Drawing
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Landscape
Acquired 1946
Landscape
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Landscape
Acquired 1946
Landscape
Acquired 1939
Landscape
Acquired 1952
Landscape
Acquired 1935
Lamaistic ritual objects
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Lake of Albano
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Lady of Pe, Wadjyt, The Giver of Life
Acquired 1992
Lady Feng and the Bear
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La Géante
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Khmer sculpture
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Judge of Hell
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Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight
Acquired 1933
Japanese Two-Fold Screen
Acquired 1931
Japanese stoneware vase
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Japanese sculpture
Acquired 1956
Japanese screen
Acquired 1922
Japanese prints and woodcut books
Acquired 1942
Japanese bowl
Acquired 1910
Jacob's Ladder
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Ivory triptych
Acquired 1926
Ivory pyxis
Acquired 1924
Ivory pillar barometer
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Ivory panel
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Ivory leaf of a diptych
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Italian Landscape
Acquired 1918
Isleworth
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Islamic panels
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Iris appearing to Hypnos
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Interior with four men standing round a table
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Inscribed vessel of Utu-Hegal, King of Uruk
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Inlaid Bronzes
Acquired 1934
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Acquired 1948
Imamiya Toka Ebisu
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Imaginary Alpine Landscape
Acquired 1946
Illustrations to the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante
Acquired 1919
Illustration to the 'Gesta Romanorum'
Acquired 1997
Il Prete Genovese
Acquired 1912
Hockley pendant
Acquired 2012
Hercules
Acquired 1922
Headrest
Acquired 1949
Head with a Beaded Crown and Plume
Acquired 1939
Head of the Emperor Claudius
Acquired 1951
Head of St Jerome
Acquired 1936
Head of Claudius
Acquired 1965
Head of Augustus, Emperor of Rome ('The Meroë Head')
Acquired 1911
Head of an old man
Acquired 1926
Head of a peasant
Acquired 1997
Head of a man with a beard, seen from the front
Acquired 1997
Head of a girl
Acquired 1931
Head from a Statue of a Man
Acquired 1973
Head and shoulders of a boy in profile to the left
Acquired 1997
Halsway Court, Somerset
Acquired 1994
Half-length study of a male nude
Acquired 1944
Half-length figure of a man
Acquired 1997
Half-angel of the first coinage of Henry VII
Acquired 1913
Gudea, King of Lagash
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Grove of Angels
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Grey pottery pilaster
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Greek Vase: Orestes pursued by the Furies
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Grave-furniture (Ornaments of Keszthely type)
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Gold-enamelled Pendant Jewel
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Gold Pendant
Acquired 1938
Gold Medalion of Maxentius
Acquired 1959
Gold enamelled badge
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Gold Earring
Acquired 1963
Gold Bracelet
Acquired 1957
Glass goblet
Acquired 1924
Gion in Kyoto
Acquired 2005
Gilt metal boss
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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
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
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Empress Livia as the Goddess Ceres
Acquired 2000
Emperor Jahangir giving an Audience
Acquired 1933
Emiliano Zapata and his Horse
Acquired 2009
Elvis
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Elizabethan ivory seal-matrix
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Elgin Amphora
Acquired 2004
Egyptian Plaster Cast
Acquired 1958
Egyptian limestone stela
Acquired 2001
Early Christian Silver Vase
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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
Designs for book illustrations
Acquired 1933
Designs
Acquired 1932
Design for a wall decoration
Acquired 1952
Design for a pulpit
Acquired 1958
Delft ware bowl
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David and Bathsheba
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David and Absalom
Acquired 1961
Daniel proving Susannah's innocence
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Dance celebrating a Remission of Taxes
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Cylinder seals
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Cycladic Figurine
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Cupid and Psyche
Acquired 1957
Covered fluted glass
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Cottage
Acquired 1948
Coriolanus receiving the Roman Matrons
Acquired 1917
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
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Collecton of engravings and etchings
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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.jpg)
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
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 carrying the Cross
Acquired 1997
Christ before Pilate
Acquired 1922
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
2 chalk studies
Acquired 1922
130 original etchings and 20 reproductions
Acquired 1907
13 Renaissance medals & a silver testoon
Acquired 1921
124 wax modelli for Italian medals
Acquired 1997
11 engraved portraits
Acquired 1920
1) Tolcarne, Cornwall; 2) Richmond, Yorkshire; 3) Near Ullswater, Cumberland; 4) Part of Warwick Castle
Acquired 1946
1) The Estuary; 2) Wandsworth Common
Acquired 2005
1) Stemmed Cup; 2) Jar; 3) Porcelain dish
Acquired 2014
1) I am an educator; 2) I am a Saudi Citizen (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
Acquired 2009
1) An angel-like form in the sky; 2) Landscape; 3) Red hill; 4) Ned Kelly in a landscape
Acquired 2009
'Study of Armour' and 'Trawlers Under Repair, Yarmouth'
Acquired 1999The Vale of York Viking Hoard, funded in 2009, includes objects from a variety of regions and nations that speak persuasively of the contemporary growth and diversity of trade networks.
Of the many studies Michelangelo produced for the Sistine Chapel, his study for the figure of Adam, acquired in 1926, is among the finest.
Exhibitions at British Museum
Feminine Power: The divine to the demonic
- British Museum, London
- Until 24 September 2022
50% off exhibitions
