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A factory for earthenware, surrounded by vignettes showing the use of clay products. Lithograph by P.A. Belin and C. Bethmont.
Date: 1860-1869Reference: 46968i- Pictures
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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.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582538i- Books
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Comparative calculations with observations, submitted to the public, and particularly to the manufacturers of earthenware, in the Staffordshire Potteries, shewing some of the advantages that will result from the proposed Commercial Canal.
Date: 1796- Books
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A catalogue of that much esteemed and truly valuable museum of the Marquis Lenori, of Pesaro; consisting of A great Number of curious Intaglios and Cameos, in a Variety of most beautiful and scarce Gems, many of which are Greek Workmanship, and richly mounted in Gold; so fine a Collection it may be presumed has rarely if ever been submitted to public Sale. Vases, Cups, &c. of oriental Agate, Bronzes in Groupes, Figures, Busts, &c. of the earliest and of the later Times; amongst these are eight large Figures on Pedestals of Bronze highly ornamented, the most capital Performance of that celebrated Artist, Sansovino. Roman Earthenware in great Preservation, painted from Designs after Raphael, and other great Masters. Carvings in Marble, Ivory, &c. The Labours of Hercules nobly composed and elaborately cut in Wood, a Work of great Antiquity. The twelve Caesars in large Cameos, the Heads of Agate, the Draperies in variegated Marble. An extraordinary Assortment of upwards of a Thousand Specimens of valuable Stones neatly ranged, and particularized in fifteen Drawers, Arabic Manuscripts, with other scarce and curious Articles, many of which have been purchased at a great Expence out of the first Collections in Europe. Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr. Christie, At his Great Room, next Cumberland House, in Pall Mall, On Monday, January 27, 1772, and three following Days, To be viewed on Tuesday the 21st and till the Sale. Catalogues may be had as above.
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803.Date: 1772]- Books
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Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the dangers attendant on the use of lead and the danger or injury to health arising from dust and other causes in the manufacture of earthenware and china; and in the processes incidental thereto, including the making of lithographic transfers.
Great Britain. Home Office.Date: 1910- Books
Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the dangers attendant on the use of lead and the danger or injury to health arising from dust and other causes in the manufacture of earthenware and china and in the processes incidental thereto, including the making of lithographic transfers. Vol. 1, Report.
Great Britain. Committee on Lead, etc., in Potteries.Date: 1910- Books
Ancient Peruvian art : contributions to the archaeology of the empire of the Incas / from his collections, by Arthur Baessler ; translated by A.H. Keane.
Baessler, Arthur, 1857-1907.Date: 1902-03- Books
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A catalogue of the entire collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals, in gold, silver, and copper: with a select assemblage of antiquity in bronze, earthenware, and choice painted glass. Early-printed books; engravings and drawings, antient and modern, likewise a neat variety of shells, and other subjects of natural history; curiosities from the new-discovered Islands in the south seas, &c. Being the property of the Late Mr. John White, of Newgate-Street, London. Part II. Consisting of his collection of books, among which are many of the early typographers, fearce tracts, missals, and MSS. Which, by order of the executor, will be sold by auction, By Mr. Gerard, at his house, in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Monday the 3d, and Tuesday the 4th, of March, 1788, at half after seven o'clock precisely. To be viewed Friday and Saturday preceding the sale. Catalogues to be had at Mr. Gerard's aforesaid; and at No 32, Newgate-Street.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1788]- Books
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A catalogue of the entire collection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other, coins and medals, in gold, silver, and copper: with a select assemblage of antiquity in bronze, earthenware, and choice painted glass. Early-printed books; engravings and drawings, antient and modern. Likewise a neat variety of shells, and other subjects of natural history; curiosities from the new-discovered Islands in the South Seas, &c. Being the property of the late Mr. John White, of Newgate-Street, London. Part I. Consisting of coins, medals, and books on coins and medals, which, by order of the executor, will be sold by auction, By Mr. Gerard, at his house, in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Wednesday the 27th, and Thursday the 28th, of February, 1788. To be viewed on Monday the 25th, and Tuesday the 26th, from ten till four. Catalogues to be had at Mr. Gerard's aforesaid; and at No 32, Newgate-Street.-Conditions of sale as usual.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1788]- 3-D Objects
Ichthyosis.
Essen, Tamsin vanDate: 2011Reference: 3171742iPart of: Medical heirlooms.- Books
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A catalogue of the entire colection of Greek, Roman, British, Saxon, English, and other. Coins and medals, in gold, silver, and copper: With a select assemblage of antiquity in bronze, earthenware, and choice painted glass. Early-printed books; engravings and drawings, antient and modern. Likewise a neat variety of shells, and other subjects of natural history; curiosities from the new-discovered Islands in the South Seas, &c. Being the property of the Late Mr. John White, of Newgate-Street, London. Part III. Consisting of Shells, fossils, and other curious subjects of natural history; curiosities from the new-discovered Islands, fine old painted glass, antiquites, prints, drawings, specimens of penmanship, &c. Which, by order of the executor. Will be sold by auction, By Mr. Gerard, at this House, in Litchfield-Street, St. Anne's, Soho, on Wednesday the 12th, Thursday the 13th, and Friday the 14th, of March, 1788, at Half after eleven o'clock precisely. To be viewed two days preceding the sale. Catalogues to be had at Mr. Gerard's aforesaid; and at No 32, Newgate-Street.
Gerard, Mr. (John), -1794.Date: 1788]- Books
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Report to Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Department on the conditions of labour in potteries, the injurious effects upon the health of the workpeople, and the proposed remedies / by the.
Great Britain. Potteries Committee of Inquiry.Date: 1893- 3-D Objects
Cancer.
Essen, Tamsin vanDate: 2011Reference: 3168164iPart of: Medical heirlooms.- Books
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Specification of James Yates : furnaces and fire-places.
Yates, James.Date: 1854- Pictures
Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Reference: 16156i- Books
The first prosthesis in porcelain in Luxemburg / by Dr. P. Heisbourg.
Heisbourg, P.Date: 1963- Pictures
Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19789i- Pictures
Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 18959i- Pictures
Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 18958i- Pictures
Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19788i- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007018: Green earthernware leech jar
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/60/7Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Amoy, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 19335i- Pictures
Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1871Reference: 19334i- 3-D Objects
Osteoporosis.
Essen, Tamsin vanDate: 2011Reference: 3168166iPart of: Medical heirlooms.- Pictures
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A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
Helmont, Mattheus van, 1623-after 1674.Reference: 45123i