Clockmakers
1650-1560
Small weight-driven 30 hour lantern or 'house' clock with alarmwork by Peter Closon. The clock originally had a verge and balance-wheel escapement but was converted at some point to anchor and long pendulum. It would have had a twelve-hour duration. The dial is engraved with tulips with a steel hand, and is signed 'Peter Closon Neere Holburn Londini fecit'. c.1655
Classical & Medieval Medicine
2000-1001 BCE
Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC
1575-1194 BCE
Bronze kohl stick, Egyptian, 1575BC-1194BC
Bronze hair curling tongs and trimmer, Egyptian, 1575BC-1194BC
1600-1400 BCE
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware, originally decorated with slip and having relief band round neck, from Cyprus, 1600-1400BC
Mummified crocodile, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BCE.
"Base-Ring" juglet, for opium, made of earthenware, with handle and relief decoration, from Cyprus, 1600 BC - 1400 BC
1600-1300 BCE
Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory, Egyptian, 1600 BC to 1300 BC
2000-1000 BCE
Unbaked clay figure of animal, one ear damaged, amuletic, unsigned, Egyptian, 2000BC-1000BC
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware, decorated with slip, and relief bands on neck, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
1575-1308 BCE
Steatite ointment spoon in form of a diving girl, Egyptian, 1575BC to 1308BC
"Base-Ring" juglet with handle and lip, earthenware, decorated with relief bands, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma, showing his withered right leg, plaster copy of Egyptian original, 2000-1001BC. Made in Dantes Plad in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Building Construction
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC
2000-1350 BCE
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
"Base Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware with black slip decoration and relief band round neck, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1400 BC
Asian Medicine
1766-1122 BCE
Bronze sacrificial bowl, used for blood libations, Shang Dynasty, Chinese, 1766-1122 BCE
1580-1350 BCE
Earthenware jar, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350
Earthenware flask with long neck, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Earthenware jar, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
1600-1050 BCE
Earthenware bottle, with handle now broken, decorated with traces of dark slip and white linear painted design, from Cyprus, 1600BC-1050BC
Alabaster bottle, Engytian, probably New Kingdm, 1580-1350BC
Earthenware jar with two small handles, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware, rim broken, decorated with brown slip and relief bands, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
"Base-Ring" juglet with handle, earthenware, body damaged, decorated with slip and painted, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1400 BC
Earthenware bottle with long neck and loop handle, decorated with black slip, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1050 BC
Metallurgy
1600-1100 BCE
Argentiferous gold foil from Mycenae. Brought by Dr. Schliemann from Mycenae, and examined by Dr. Percy
"Base Ring" juglet earthenware, decorated with black slip and relief band, with handle, from Cyprus, 1600BC-1400BC
1600-1000 BCE
Votive left hand, holding votive offering, possibly a pyxis, terracotta, Egyptian, 1600BC-1000BC
"Base-Ring" juglet with handle, earthenware, decorated with traces of slip and white painted bands, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1400 BC
"Base-Ring" juglet with handle, earthenware with traces of slip and painted decoration, from cyprus, 1600BC to 1400BC
"Base-Ring" juglet, with handle, earthenware with polished brown slip decoration and double relief band round neck, from Cyprus, 1600 BC to 1400 BC
Earthenware flask, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Earthenware flask with small foot, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Domestic Appliances
Jug, base ring ware, Cyprus, 1600-1400 BC.
Piriform bottle with elongated neck and loop handle, earthenware, decorated with dark slip and white painted linear design, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1050BC
Alabaster bottle, long and narrow, cream and grey (veining), unsigned, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350 BCE.
1600 BCE-1100 BCE
Part of a silver vase from Mycenae. Procured by Dr. Heinrich Schliemann
Pharmacy-ware
1564
Small bell shaped brass (?) mortar, flared foot and everted rim with inscription, decorated, 2 rounded handles, flat base, Dutch (?) 1564 (?)
Piriform bottle with elongated neck loop handle, earthenware, decorated with dark polished slip, from Cyprus, 1600BC-1050BC
1600-1200 BCE
Piriform bottle with tapering body, earthenware, with handle, decorated with dark slip, from Cyprus, 1600BC to 1200BC
"Base Ring" juglet with handle, earthenware, with traces of slip and painted decoration, from Cyprus, 1600 BC-1400 BC
1564 - 1642
1564-1642, astronomer; mathematician, Italian
1561 - 1636
1561-1636, physician; physiologist, Italian
1561 - 1626
1561-1626, philosopher; politician, English
Astronomy
1560-1565
Copy of a brass and iron azimuth quadrant, which has by tradition has been associated with the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Made around 1560, it was first owned by Wilhem IV, Landgrave of Hesse, Germany. The original is now at the Royal Museum in Kassel (Staatliche Museen Kassel). Made by Elkington and Company after the original was displayed at the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus in the South Kensington Museum in 1876.
1564 - 1616
1564-1616, poet; playwright, English
