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L'Histoire de Scipion: La bataille sur le plateau, quatrieme piece de la tenture,laine et soie, tapisserie.OA 5388 D'apres Giulio Romano,Manufacture des Gobelins pour Louis XIV,1688-1689
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L'Histoire de Scipion: La bataille sur le plateau, quatrieme piece de la te...

Tapestry "The Hunts of Maximilian",one of twelve. Month of February,sign of Pisces,12th piece of the series. Tapestry,wool,silk,gold and silver thread,seven kettfaeden per centimeter, 440 x 750 cm,OA 7325 Brussels around 1528-1533 After Bernaert van Orley.
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Tapestry "The Hunts of Maximilian",one of twelve. Month of February,sign...

Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy), Turkish governor of Tunis. The imperial army leaves Tunis and camps in Rada. Ostriches and goats.Tapestry. In 1535 the Spanish Empire attacked Tunis, then under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Holy Roman Emperor Karl V (Charles V) of the Habsburg dynasty assembled a huge army and war fleet. He defeated Barbarossa's fleet and, after a siege, captured Tunis on June 1 1535.
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Emperor Karl V's war against Chaireddin (also known as Hayreddin Barbarossa, Gra...

Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image of Herakles, 4th. The man wears a tunic with a red stripe and she wears a gemstone nacklace with pendant pearls. The inscription to "Orfitus and Constantia" could point to Memmius Vitruvius Orfitus, a pagan aristocrat and prefect of Rome in the 4th century. Herakles wears the skin of the Nemean lion and carries his club and the apples of the Hesperides, which were his wedding present to Jupiter and Juno, suggesting that the medallion was a wedding gift. M&ME, 1863,7-27,3
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Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image...

Brass hanging lamp with a griffin handle, Early Byzantine, 5th-6th century. The lamp is boat-shaped with holes for oil and wick. The curved neck of a griffin emerges from a calyx to form a handle. A dove sits between the griffin's ears, above a Christogram.Hanging chains may be original to the lamp, but it also has a bayonet fitting on the base for a stand. Found at Herculaneum,Italy. M&ME,1897,8-20,1
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Brass hanging lamp with a griffin handle, Early Byzantine, 5th-6th century. The...

Ivory pyxis with Saint Menas, Early Byzantine, 6th. This small pyxis shows two scenes from the life of Saint Menas, a semi-legendary Egyptian soldier martyred in the late 3rd century. He stands as a haloed orant,flanked by two camels associated with the story of his life. The four persons are probably parents and children who had the pyxis carved as a votive offering. M&ME, 1879,12-20,1
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Ivory pyxis with Saint Menas, Early Byzantine, 6th. This small pyxis shows two...

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of interlocking medallions. An animal is displayed in each circle (winged griffins, heraldic eagles, lions, peacocks and snakes). Motifs are part Western, (the continuous scroll pattern of interlaced bands), part Arab influence. M&ME, 1923,12-5,3
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The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of int...

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of interlocking medallions. An animal is displayed in each circle (winged griffins, heraldic eagles, lions, peacocks and snakes). Motifs are part Western, (the continuous scroll pattern of interlaced bands), part Arab influence. Reverse side of 30-01-08/17 M&ME, 1923,12-5,3
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The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of int...

Icon of Saint George, Byzantine,from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was used as the shutter of a barn window. Overpainted several times, the 14th century icon was finally uncovered by museum custodians. Saint George on a black horse is rare and accounts for the icon's popular name of "Black George". M&ME 1986,6-3,1
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Icon of Saint George, Byzantine,from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was...

Chatelaine plate, Merovingian, 7th century. Copper-alloy plate, originally tinned to resemble silver. When viewed vertically, the openwork design gives the impression of a stick figure between two other figures. The paired figures have birds' heads, and arms at an anatomically impossible angle. When the object is viewed on its side the design can be correctly read as a fish between two eagles. The eagle has an early, pagan significance: the Romans associated it with Jupiter and the Franks possibly with Wotan. However the scene may be given a Christian interpretation: the eagle possibly representing Christ, and the fish, a common Christian image, representing the redeemed human soul. The plate would have been worn on a chatelaine, a kind of belt, with straps attached to the loops at the top. It comes from Amiens, Somme, France. M&ME, 1891,10-19,59
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Chatelaine plate, Merovingian, 7th century. Copper-alloy plate, originally tinne...

0310000141 Stove-tile with the arms of James I, c1603-c1625. Earthenware stove-tile in the form of a panel with the lion and unicorn, and the royal Stuart coat-of-arms and the 'IR' cypher ('Iacobus Rex') for King James VI of Scotland and I of England. The incorporation of the Tudor rose and the Scottish thistle at the base symbolises the union of the two crowns. The coat of arms reflected loyalty to the crown. Wood-burning stoves were often made up from elaborately decorated tiles which were being produced in England in small numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the end of the sixteenth century the severe shortage in the south of England of wood for burning meant that coal, from Newcastle, was the primary source of heating fuel. Coal was not suitable for burning in closed stoves. M&ME, 1981,3-6,1
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0310000141 Stove-tile with the arms of James I, c1603-c1625. Earthenware stove-...

Porcelain ice-pail, French, 1811. This porcelain ice-pail, with its elephant heads, formed part of a gift made on 5 May 1812 to the Emperor Francis I of Austria from his son-in-law Napoleon I. In a small composition by Jean-François Robert, Napoleon himself, with the Empress Marie-Louise, can be seen in the landau carriage in front of the Château of Saint-Cloud.The pail originally had metal liners intended to hold ice-cream, surrounded by crushed ice. The elephant heads suggest something of a Rococo fantasy, but the gilt ground and patterns of matt gilded decoration are firmly in the Empire style, reflecting the splendour and luxury of the Napoleonic court. M&ME, 1985,12-3,1-2
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Porcelain ice-pail, French, 1811. This porcelain ice-pail, with its elephant hea...