A hand-knotted table carpet known as the Kinghorne Carpet, bearing the coronetted monogram ILCKME, Iohn Lyon Comes Kinghorne, M E may refer to his first wife Margaret Erskine, or his second Elizabeth Maule: English, possibly Norwich, c. 1620

Knotted wool pile carpet with a flowering tree in centre reserved against a navy blue ground within a pointed arch, the tree with slender trunk and curving branches bearing hanging clusters of lilac-like blue, red and orange flowers: Iran, Qum, c. 1960

Carpet, silk, woven in different colours with a blossoming tree, two flower vases and cartouches with an inscription: West Asia, Iran, Kashan, by Hajji Mullah Muhammad Hasan Mohtasham, 1850 - 1860

Phyllangia americana, carpet coral, glass model, by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, Dresden, Germany, 1863 - 1890

Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus), carp, cast

Xylocopa sp., carpenter bee, dried specimen