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Della Torre,Professor of Medicine,lecturing. Bronze with brown patina,Padua 1516-1521. 37 x 49 cm OA 9092-9099 Made for the tomb of Girolamo della Torre and his son Marc Antonio.
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Della Torre,Professor of Medicine,lecturing. Bronze with brown patin...

Celestial globe carried by a horse; clock work of brass, case, silver, partly gilded. 1579 From Vienna H: 27.3 cm
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Celestial globe carried by a horse; clock work of brass, case, silver,...

Figure-clock, Bacchus procession and astronomer. Clock-work iron; case bronze, brass and copper, fire-gilded, enamel. Around 1580. From Nuernberg. Height 70 cm. See also 30-01-04/52,53
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Figure-clock, Bacchus procession and astronomer. Clock-work iron; case br...

Figure-clock, Bacchus procession. Detail of 30-01-04/51: the procession. Case: bronze, brass, copper, fire gilded, enamel From Nuerenberg, around 1580. H: 70 cm
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Figure-clock, Bacchus procession. Detail of 30-01-04/51: t...

Figure-clock, Bacchus procession. Detail of 30-01-04/51 Seated figure of an astronomer. Copper with fire gilding, enamel. From Nuernberg, around 1580 H: 70 cm
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Figure-clock, Bacchus procession. Detail of 30-01-04/51 Seated figure of an astr...

"Working-cabinet" with music-clock, 1776.Marquetry, mainly acorn wood, also rosewood, gilded bronze fittings. Clock and its mechanism by Peter Kinzing. Made for Prince Karl of Lothringen. A similar cabinet was made for Louis XIV, who,according to his diary, "1779,mois d'avril le 11, j'ai paye aux Allemands pour une grande commode 2.400 livres". It disappeared during the First Empire. Inv. H 269
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"Working-cabinet" with music-clock, 1776.Marquetry, mainly acorn wood, also ros...

"La Marguerita", a Venetian mirror, second half 16th. 14 leaf-shaped, convex mirrors are arranged around a circular center,thus multiplying the mirrored image. Glass,cardboard,paper; 120 cm across
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"La Marguerita", a Venetian mirror, second half 16th. 14 leaf-shaped, convex m...

0310000112 Mazer and cover, Medieval, Flemish,15th century. A mazer is a drinking bowl made of wood. This example has been suitably embellished with metal mounts and enamelled decoration. The bird standing on top of the cover has a shield hanging around its neck. The shield is enamelled with the arms of Flanders. These arms are repeated on the silver foot. This example has been suitably embellished with metal mounts and enamelled decoration. The bird standing on top of the cover has a shield hanging around its neck. The shield is enamelled with the arms of Flanders. These arms are repeated on the silver foot. Its accompanying embossed leather case has the shields of Flanders and Ghistelles combined, almost certainly an allusion to the marriage of Louis de Flandres, the illegitimate son of Louis de Mâle, Count of Flanders, to Mary of Ghistelles. M&ME, AF.3116
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0310000112 Mazer and cover, Medieval, Flemish,15th century. A mazer is a drinki...

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-...

Hippocrates (Greek physician) and Galenus (Roman physician and philosopher). Fresco; 13th century
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Hippocrates (Greek physician) and Galenus (Roman physician and philosopher)....

Pharmacist selling ointment and medicine. Part of a marble capital; late 12th century
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Pharmacist selling ointment and medicine. Part of a marble capital; late 12th c...

Gilded bronze weather vane. Viking ship from Tingelsted, Norway; 12th century See also 30-01-10/59
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Gilded bronze weather vane. Viking ship from Tingelsted, Norway; 12th century...