Tenor drone top joint or tenor top of African blackwood, mounted with stainless steel ferrule and composition resin bush and ring cap, from Gillanders and Macleod, Forfar, 1977

One of a composition resin mount and sole for a tenor drone small joint, turned but otherwise unfinished, by Gillanders and MacLeod, Forfar, 1977

One of a composition resin mount and sole for a tenor drone small joint, bored out and threaded but otherwise unfinished, by Gillanders and MacLeod, Forfar, 1977

Cuff of silver and resin: Japan, by Hiramatsu Yasuki, 1991

Mummified adult male with wrappings arranged in lozenges, and a portrait-board fitted over the face, the feet have a cartonnage case with gilded gold toes, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Hawara, c. AD 80 - 120

Mummified girl aged five to seven years, depicted as an adult, with wrappings arranged in lozenges and a gilded plaster mask fitted over the face, excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 100-140

Mummified woman, wrapped in linen bandages coated with a thick layer of black resin embedded with stone, opaque glass and gilded amulets: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind in the tomb of Montsuef, Early Roman Period, c. 20 BC - 10 AD

Shabti, wood, inscribed with a shabti-spell in favour of King Seti I, with traces of black resin: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Valley of the Kings, KV17, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, c.1294-1279 BC

Bracelet of silver inlaid with resin: English, London, by Susanna Heron, 1970

Snuff bottle of resinous composition, with mask ring handles, and with a green jade and silver stopper fitted with ivory spoon: China, c. 1800

Earring, brass ring with pendant decorated with granulated brass, inset turquoise, central pearl bead and red resin coral-like finial, worn by a low ranking official or his servant: Tibet, 19th century AD

Mask depicting Yamantaka, painted resin and textile in form of blue bull's head with two horns and five skull ornaments, part of a Cham Dance costume worn by Tibetan Buddhist monks: Tibet, 19th - early 20th century AD

Skull mask of painted resin and textile, in form of skull surmounted by five smaller skulls and metal dorje (thunderbolt) crest, with striped cotton concertinaed side pieces, part of a Cham Dance skeleton costume worn by Tibetan Buddhist monks: Tibet, 19th - early 20th century AD

Figure of the Buddha seated on a tiered throne, thin sheet silver shaped around a clay core with central wooden support, with repousse decoration: Southeast Asia, Myanmar, 18th - early 19th century

Water vessel of clay varnished with resin, in the form of four conjoined bulbous fruits with four rising handles: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Lump of resin: Southern Africa, Zambia, late 19th century