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Votive right leg

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE -200 CE

Terracotta mortar, Lyons, France, 50-300 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

50-300 CE

Plaque of Buddha in earth witness gesture

Asian Medicine

1100-1700

Statue of Telesphorus, Greece, 300-400 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300-400 CE

Statue of male head

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE-200 CE

Opium pipe with mount and bowl

Asian Medicine

Grotesque male head, terracotta, possibly Greek

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300-100

Bowl from opium pipe

Asian Medicine

Electric light switch, 1896

Electricity Supply

1896

Hollow terracotta figure

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300-200 BCE

Terracotta bell, possibly a copy of a Roman type

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Female head, terracotta, Greek, 350BC-50BC

Classical & Medieval Medicine

350-50

Bowl from opium pipe

Asian Medicine

Votive male face, terracotta, painted

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200-200

Votive male head, terracotta, hollow

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200-200

Statue, terracotta, apparently showing Bacchus

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE - 200 CE

Box set containing pointed plaque of Hindu god

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Votive terracotta bladder

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE-200 CE

Statue of squatting man

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Votive figure of infant

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE -100 CE

Statue

Classical & Medieval Medicine

500-300 BCE

Female terracotta statue

Classical & Medieval Medicine

500-401BCE

Box of plaque of Hindu deity

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Small flat terracotta plaque, mounted

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300-200 BCE

Female head with ivy leaves

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300-200

Babylonian terracotta brick.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

604-561

Small figure of a female

Classical & Medieval Medicine

600-400 BCE

Incisedly decorated tobacco pipe with cauldron-shaped bowl only

Smoking

1850-1920

female votive torso

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE -200 CE

Seated female figure

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE - 200 CE

Statue, terracotta, on recent wooden stand

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200 BCE - 200 CE

Male head, terracotta, Greek

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200- 1

Plaque showing Buddha and disciples

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Male statue of snowman

Asian Medicine

800 BCE-701 BCE

Decorated and inscribed bowl from opium pipe

Asian Medicine

Pair of perforated terracotta legs, amuletic

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200-1900

Terracotta clay tobacco pipe, broken bowl, silver bowl mount and cover, cherrywood stem, screw-in horn mouthpiece, decoration round bowl rim and stem socket, German (?), 1820-1890

Terracotta clay tobacco pipe, broken bowl, silver

Smoking

1820-1890

Bamboo opium pipe, with metal mount and terracotta bowl, inscribed, Chinese

Opium pipe with mount and bowl

Asian Medicine

Terracotta tobacco pipe, natural twig stem, Turkish, 1880-1920

Tobacco pipe with natural twig stem

Smoking

1880-1920

Pottery figure representing the Chinese zodiac sign Ssu, the Serpent, Chinese, probably Wei or Sui Dynasty, 219-618

Figure representing Chinese zodiac sign of Ssu, the Serpent

Asian Medicine

219-618 CE

Babylonian terracotta brick inscribed with cunieform script, in oak case, from the ruins of Babylon, 604BC-561BC

Babylonian terracotta brick

Classical & Medieval Medicine

604-561

Terracotta bowl decorated with a pottery frog and enamelled flowers, for ivory opium smoking pipe, cylindrical, engraved with figures and scenes, with repoussé brass pipe bowl mount, unsigned, China, undated. From Archdeacon Grey's collection, England 1831-1900.

Terracotta bowl, for Ivory opium pipe

Asian Medicine

Unknown

Votive right hand, terracotta, Roman, 200BC-200AD

Classical & Medieval Medicine

200-200

Large terracotta cinerary urn containing cremated bones, enclosed in lead box with lid, from Apulia in Italy, Roman, 100 BC-400 AD

Large terracotta cinerary urn

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 400 CE

Terracotta bowl, with spiral Syriac inscription on inside, unsigned, Babylonian, 1-300 BC.

Terracotta bowl

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1-300 BCE

Hollow terracotta foot scraper(?), with wedge shape balde and rounded handle, possibly Chinese or Japanese, possibly 1801-1900

Hollow foot scraper

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Votive figure of mother suckling infant, terracotta, probably from Cyprus, 400BC-100BC

Votive figure of mother suckling infant

Classical & Medieval Medicine

400-100

Bablylonian terracotta brick inscribed with cuneiform script, Syrian, 605BC-561BC

Bablylonian terracotta brick

Classical & Medieval Medicine

605-561

Assyrian terracotta brick, inscribed with cuneiform script, made during reign of Shalmaneser II, Assyria, 860BC-825BC

Assyrian terracotta brick, inscribed

Classical & Medieval Medicine

860-825

Female head with hair in turban, terracotta, probably Roman, said to have been excavated near Shrewsbury 1st century AD

Female head with hair in turban, terracotta

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1-100 CE