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  • Women carrying water pots
  • Pots, tubs, boxes, baskets and bundles. Aquatint with etching by W.H. Pyne, 1804.
  • Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
  • Two Roman (?) pots excavated at Newgate Street
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • Suggested curbing, pedestals, pots & steps across top of main walk.
  • A potter making clay pots on a wheel. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A man firing pots in a wood smoked oven. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Shallow well, with zeers (large clay water pots) in the background, Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph, 1903/1913.
  • Johannesburg Hospital, South Africa: kitchen area with staff, tea pots and cake. Photograph, c. 1905.
  • A street performer standing on a disc balancing three pots on his head. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A woman carries a basket of decorated earthern pots on her head. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A man carrying a wooden pole (yoke) with pots suspended on either ends. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Africa: a display of Zulu shields, mats, pillows, smoking horns, monchies, spoons, baskets, tschinala and amas pots, and beadwork. Albumen print.
  • Fishing: people smoking herrings and sardines; pots and nets for trapping them. Etching, ca.1762, by R. Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A oil monger carrying a basket with pots filled with oil on his head. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A woman carrying two earthenware pots to transport water and a rope and a black pot to draw water from the well. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • An acrobat walking a tightrope with four mud pots on his head while a musician looks on. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An Indian man, maybe selling milk or water, carrying two pots suspended on a pole, on his shoulder. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • An old man sits beating metal into shape to make cauldrons and other cooking pots. Photogravure by Goupil & C.ie after Alphonse Legros.
  • Moascar, Ismailia, Egypt (Suez Canal area): the New Zealand military camp open air kitchen: rows of large metal cooking pots (known as dixies). Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Burma: a monastery with ascetics or holy men outside; a group of monks giving or receiving pots; a mast with a snake descending from it; people processing foodstuffs. Gouache painting.
  • Antiquaries meeting: a man standing at the head of a table holds up a hat in one hand and a sheaf of papers in the other for the rest of the company to see; the table has busts and pots on it and the men are inspecting various items. Coloured etching.
  • American colonial black pot with head attached to handle, view of pot
  • Pewter infusion pot.
  • Specimen of curare from pot.
  • Chinese 'Kepler' pot and carton.
  • Histidine phosphocarrier protein surface pot
  • Histidine phosphocarrier protein,surface pot