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Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Storage jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1714

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Gold pair-cased watch with gold champleve dial, by Daniel Quare

Clockmakers

1710

Ogee moulding plane

Hand and Machine Tools

1704-1728

Barnard Tompion clock

Time Measurement

1708

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

Clockmakers

1724

Longcase clock signed James Harrison, brother of John Harrison

Clockmakers

1728

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Bottle shaped glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1730

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Compass plane, 1717 used for smoothing concave sur

Hand and Machine Tools

1717

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Urinal

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1730

Albarello vase decorated with scene of country villa

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Albarello vase decorated with country villa scene

Medical Ceramic-ware

1725

Mezzotint portrait of John Theophilus Desaguliers

Peter Pelham

1725

Model wagon, horse-drawn quarry truck

Railway Models

1730

Edmund Culpeper

1720

Compound microscope made by Edmund Culpeper, 1720-30, Moorfields, London. Wooden frame and pasteboard and red leather tube with gold-coloured tooling. Complete with pyramid-shaped carry case, specimen slides and accessories.

Early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Set of Mathematical instruments by D. Lusuerg, c 1701.

Mathematics

1701

Boxwood Coggeshall folding slide rule, 1720-1730.

Mathematics

1720-1730

Multiplication aide memoire, early 18th century

Mathematics

1701-1730

Ivory piston-action syringe, Europe, 1701-1730

Therapeutics

1701-1730

Silver medal commemorating the deliverence of Hamburg from plague, Germany, 1714

Wellcome Medals

1714

Chest microscope formerly owned by Pope Benedict XIV

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1730

Watch by Daniel Quare c.1712, contained in a painted polychrome enamel case signed ‘Les Frères Huaud’ with a yellow enamel painted interior. Silver repoussé dial with a Huaud enamel plaque in centre. Dial winding at 3 o'clock. Steel hands. Verge escapement with broad-foot winged cock. Movement signed 'Quare, London'.

Verge watch by Daniel Quare, in a polychrome enamel case signed 'Les Frères Huaud'

Clockmakers

1712

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester", of establishment of 1708. This represents a fourth-rate, 663 tons burthen, 125ft x 34.5ft., built and launched at the Chatham dockyard in 1708, which remained in service until it was broken up in February 1749.

Model of English 60-gun warship HMS "Chester"

Warships

c. 1708

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

Astronomy

1727-1728

Original eight day clock by Harrison, date 1715, wheel work mostly of wood, weight driven

Weight driven pendulum clock

Time Measurement

1715

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope, 1714-1722

Astronomy

1714-1722

Pharmacy storage jar for Blessed Thistle Water, Italy, 1702

Medical Ceramic-ware

1702

Acupuncture training model, China, 1725-1730

Asian Medicine

1725-1730

Ivory female anatomical figure, Italy, 1701-1730

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Model of 90-gun, 2nd-rate, man-of-war naval vessel, built to the 1706 Establishment

Water Transport

1706-1730

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Syrup jar used to store Oil of Violets, Italy, 1701-1730

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Mallet shaped glass decanter

Glass Technology

1710

Italian draw-tube refracting telescope with stand, 1701-1730

Astronomy

1701-1730

Albarello drug jar used for Lacc resin

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

The outer gold case has been hand chased in a basket-work pattern, and gives the appearance of an engine-turned finish. Inner case plain gold. Hallmarked for London, 1702 – 3. Gold champlevé dial with sunk repoussé name plaque signed 'Gretton, London' in centre. Steel hands. Verge escapement. The top pivot hole of the verge was once jewelled with a pierced ruby, mounted in a silver (although this probably was not original to the watch). Signed ‘Charles Gretton London’.

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

Clockmakers

1702

Metal momento mori finger ring, set with 1 large square transparent stone with a skull underneath, and a small square transparent stone either side of large stone, bears inscription on band, 1725

Memento mori ring

Wellcome (general)

1725

Whole model of battleship HMS 'Captain'

Water Transport

1708-1714

Object glass, 2nd of 5, from very early Culpeper microscope, by Edmund Culpeper, England, 1720-1730

Object glass, 2nd of 5, from very early Culpeper microscope

Microscopes

1720-1730

Bronze standard wine gallon measure, 1707

Weighing & Measuring

1707

Wax plaque showing stages in foetal development, Europe, 1701-1800

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1730

Palfijin obstetrical forceps, Europe, 1720-1730

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1720-1730

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE