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Broadsword / scabbard Broadsword / scabbard

Officer's broadsword, copper-gilt basket hilt, engraved with thistle and rose, and leather scabbard, copper-gilt mounts

Vase Vase

Vase of raised enamel in relief on gilt copper ground, with apertures in the cover with three pods: China

Box Box

Box and cover of enamel in relief on a gilt copper ground, globular with blue enamel inside: China

Hua ku-p'ing / vase Hua ku-p'ing / vase

Cloisonne enamel on gilt copper gu or trumpet-shaped vessel, with a knop, spreading foot, dentilated ribs, with dragons, taotie masks, lotus designs: China, Ming dynasty, 16th century

Box Box

Box of gilt copper and silver, used in everyday ritual: Tibet, possibly from the Younghusband Campaign

Figure Figure

Figure of the Shakyamuni Buddha in gilt copper, seated on lotus flower, his right hand touching the earth in the 'earth witness' gesture, his left hand resting in his lap in the gesture of meditation: Tibet, 19th century AD

Anklet bell Anklet bell

Anklet of gilded copper pellet bells, threaded onto string, worn by a dancer: India, 20th century

Container Container

Container of painted enamel and copper-gilt? with body in the form of a bird with brown plumage and long tail feathers, with gilt metal mounts and a hinged cover, part of the Ida Pappenheim Collection: possibly German, 18th century

Scent bottle Scent bottle

Flat circular scent bottle of glass enclosed in a filigree case, with hinged metal cover and a chain handle with ring, part of the Ida Pappenheim Collection: possibly French, 19th century

Altar, portable Altar, portable

Altar, gilded copper table with front panel is decorated with Kirtimukha (Face of Majesty) and set with turquoise, the trestle legs and front panel fold into the table top for transport: Tibet, late 19th century AD

Chalice Chalice

Chalice of silver-gilt and gilt copper with champleve enamels of the Crucifixion and half figures of saints in the bulge in the centre of the stem: Italian, Siena or Florence, c. 1400

Chalice Chalice

Chalice with a partly gilt silver bowl set on a gilt copper stem and foot decorated with champlevé and basse-taille enamels on silver: Italian, Tuscany, mid-14th century

Chalice Chalice

Chalice with a plain silver cup, gadrooned and chased gilt copper stem and foot, and knop with silver medallions stamped 'IHS': Italian, 15th century

Chalice Chalice

Chalice with a partly gilt silver bowl set on a gilt copper stem and foot decorated with champlevé and basse-taille enamels: Italian, Tuscany, Siena, by Tommaso di Vannino, early 15th century, with an added silver plaquette engraved with the arms of the Medici family of Florence from the late 16th or 17th century

Chalice Chalice

Chalice with a silver-gilt cup, gilt copper stem and foot, knop with engraved silver figure medallions and stem inscribed 'AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS' - 'Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with you': Italian, 15th century

Paten Paten

Gilt copper paten: Italian, 15th century

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