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The heads and shoulders of five women wearing their hair combed back, curled, plaited and dressed with ribbons, flowers, leaves and jewellery. Coloured line block, 1865.
Date: 13 Septembre 1865Reference: 33203i- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons, flowers, jewellery and a blue-bird. Coloured line block, 1876.
Date: 1er Avril 1876Reference: 33017i- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of three women with plaited and ringletted hair dressed with beads, ribbons and jewellery; five plaited and ringletted hair-pieces. Coloured lithograph, 1865.
Date: Octobre 1865Reference: 32779i- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with jewellery. Coloured line block, 1875, after A. Max (?).
Date: 1 Juillet 1875Reference: 32932i- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured line block, 1876.
Date: 1er. Janvier 1876Reference: 32994i- Pictures
An Indian man wearing elaborate jewellery and make-up, squatting in front of a small table on which is a shrine, perhaps in a temple. Photograph, ca.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 535791iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
The heads of four women with ringletted hair dressed with jewellery, flowers and leaves; details of the back of two heads with attached hair-pieces. Coloured lithograph, 186(?).
Date: Juillet 186(?)Reference: 32736i- Pictures
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Above, a Greek red-figured water-jar (hydria); below, detail of the decoration showing a woman offering jewellery to a winged seated figure. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
Dahlsteen, Augustin, 1720-1769.Date: 1760-1769Reference: 565395iPart of: Greek vases and vessels in the Hamilton Collection.- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of five women with their hair combed back and dressed with chignons decorated with feathers, flowers and jewellery. Coloured line block, 1875, after A. Max (?).
Date: 1er Aout 1875Reference: 32964i- Pictures
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The heads and shoulders of five women wearing their hair dressed with flowers, butterflies, feathers, jewellery and a hat; two bodices with embroidery and four collars. Coloured line block, 1863, by Thiery (?).
Date: March 1863Reference: 33191i- Pictures
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A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
Schwaiger, Hanuš, 1854-1912.Date: [1900?]Reference: 37537i- Pictures
A woman with her hair dressed in an enormously high chignon and decorated with feathers and jewellery standing in profile to the right with her hands behind her back. Coloured line block by R. Ravot (?).
Reference: 33314i- Books
Catalogue of the Egypt Exploration Society's exhibition of the results of the recent excavations at Amarna and Armant and of a loan exhibition of Egyptian jewellery, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 8th Sep. to 3rd October, 1931.
Egypt Exploration Society.Date: 1931- Digital Images
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Gold ring with container; Swiss.
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Copper anklet, Ibo people, Nigeria
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Copper anklet, Ibo people, Nigeria
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Virtuous words, stones and rings : Renaissance books and amuletic jewellery / [a collaborative exhibition between the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the Medieval and Later Antiquites Department of the British Museum displayed as adjunct to the conference 'Medicine in the Renaissance City' 26 and 27 March 1999].
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.Date: [1999]- Books
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A descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery, Comprised in the Schedule annexed to an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirteenth Year of His present Majesty, George the Third; For enabling Mr. James Cox, of the City of London, Jeweller, to dispose of his Museum by way of Lottery.
Cox, James, Jeweler.Date: 1773- Digital Images
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Mourning brooche containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooches containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooches containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooch containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooche containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooch containing the hair of a deceased relative.
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Mourning brooche containing the hair of a deceased relative.