One of a group of orders, medals and badges awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, Royal Academy of Medicine, Barcelona, Honorary Member's bronze gilt medal

One of a group of orders, medals and badges awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, American College of Chest Physicians bronze gilt medal

One of a group of orders, medals and badges awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, bronze gilt Schroeder Foundation Honour Award

Gilt bronze strap end with Ringerike decoration, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 1000 - 1100

Belt hook of gilded bronze with decoration of two animal heads with glass eye-bead roundel between them: China, Han Dynasty

Figure of Guanyin, in gilt bronze, standing with her right hand raised and holding a vase containing lotus flowers with her left: China, Song dynasty, 960 - 1279 AD or earlier

Figure of a luohan (disciple of the Buddha) in gilt bronze: China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong reign, 18th century AD

Zun (flower vase) of bronze, partly gilt, in style of ancient sacrificial wine vessel decorated with ogre masks and dragons on a key-fret diaper ground inlaid with silver: China, made by Hu Wenming, Ming Dynasty, Wanli reign, c. 1600 AD

Figure of Guanyin, bodhisattva of compassion, in gilt bronze, with flowing robes, jewelled corsage and diadem: China, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong reign, 1736 - 1795 AD

Figure of Buddha in gilt bronze, seated on double lotus base in meditation gesture of chanding yin: China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century AD

Gilt bronze figure of a bodhisattva, seated in the lotus position, with flaming jewel (cintamani) in left hand: Northern China, possibly Ming dynasty, 15th - 17th century AD

Gilt bronze figure of a bodhisattva, seated in the lotus position: Northern China, possibly Ming dynasty, 15th - 17th century AD

Dish of cloisonne enamel, with a five gilt bronze feet, a lobed rim, and a conventional lotus design in colours on a turquoise blue ground: China, probably 18th century AD

Incense burner of cloisonne enamel on gilt bronze, two parts with three feet, two loop handles, and conventionalised lotus flowers on a turquoise blue ground: China, probably 18th century AD

Figure of the Green Tara in gilded bronze, showing the goddess seated on a throne with her right leg supported by a lotus, hands in charity and argument mudra, with a small image of Amoghasiddha in her headdress: probably Nepal, 19th century

Figure of Buddha, in gilt bronze, with a turquoise in his forehead, and seated on a lotus base: India, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh (Little Tibet), Leh, probably 19th century