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Miniature tea set consisting of teapot, sugar basin, two cups and a cream jug, made from fish bones by a German prisoner of war while convalescing in the North Hospital Block, Edinburgh Castle, during World War I
'Kraken Storm', glass sculpture of blown lead crystal and flat glass with polished and sandblasted decoration: Scotland, Edinburgh, by Ray Flavell, 1993
Bangle of dyed and laminated sycamore veneer and gold leaf: British, by Peter Chatwin and Pamela Martin, 1993
Wemyss Ware oval basket with loop handle and wavy rim, hand painted with pink roses, by Robert Heron and Son, Fife Pottery, Kirkcaldy, c. 1883 - 1930
Painting, Akau Fekakai ne tupu i Pia (The Tree at Pia), based on traditional Niue motifs and elements from European iconography, oil on canvas: Polynesia, New Zealand, by John Pule (born in Niue), 1993
Earring of gold consisting of four hollow penannular hoops, soldered together at their bases : Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Riqqa, Tomb of Beri, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1539 - 1292 BC
Foot-board in painted wood from a cartonnage mummy-case, depicting an Apis bull wearing a heavy menat-necklace, with a shen adorned with a pair of flails below its belly : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, mid Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, c. 940 - 716 BC
Pyramidion in black basalt with a square base and rounded top, decorated on three sides with scenes in intaglio: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Abydos, 19th - 20th Dynasty
Stela of wood covered with gesso, round topped and painted showing the Lady of the House Shepset-ireru worshipping Re and Atum: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 26th Dynasty, Late Period
Earring of gold consisting of four hollow penannular hoops soldered together at their bases: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Riqqa, Tomb of Beri, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1539 - 1292 BC
Figure in hollow-cast bronze of a seated cat, a votive offering to the goddess Bast: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, Lower Egypt, Tell Basta, Late or Ptolemaic period, c. 664 - 30 BC
Figure of a demon in carved and lacquered wood, with skull on chest, standing holding a bowl from which rises a vapour terminating above his head in a lotus bud enclosing a figure: Japan, by Gyokuzan, 1781
Netsuke of carved ivory, three monkeys seated round a go board with two wearing spectacles, signed: Masatoshi, Japan, 19th century
Netsuke of carved ivory, two lion-dogs (kara-shishi), one with its forepaws on a ball and the other crawling on the first's haunches, unsigned: Japan
Netsuke of carved ivory, the Moon Rabbit pounding mochi (rice cakes) with a pestle and mortar, signed: Ohara Mitsuhiro, Osaka, Japan, c.1830-75