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Wooden bowl, made of mango wood in the Philippines

Domestic Appliances

1999

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

Nuclear Physics

1935-1945

`Melaware' plastic bowl, maroon. English c1960-197

Domestic Appliances

c. 1960-1970

Dhara Chatti, copper bowl with chains for suspension

Asian Medicine

2005

Clay Shirodhara bowl, India, 2005

Oriental Medicine

2005

Soup bowl, Great Western Railway - Hotels, made by J & G Meakin, Hanley - "Vitresol"; white pot soup bowl with leaf border design, "GWR Hotels" on rim (roundel type).

Ceramic soup bowl, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

Bowl originally on three legs, England, 1701-1870

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1870

Tin glazed earthenware bowl, depicting a parturition scene, Italy, 1551-1600

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1551-1600

Slop bowl, ceramic, by Royal Doulton, Great Northern Railway, white, green floral border, marked underneath "GREAT NORTHERN HOTELS".

Ceramic slop bowl, Great Northern Railway - Great Northern Hotels

Passenger Comforts

Salad bowl, Southern Railway, white with green border and garter emblem.

Ceramic salad bowl, Southern Railway

Passenger Comforts

Pottery bowl with green glaze, possibly medieval

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Sugar bowl, china, fluted, by Minton, from Great Western Railway Royal Saloon No 9006, used by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, pale green with gold rim and dark green garland decoration, white inside. Overall: 70 mm x 100 mm.

Minton sugar bowl from GWR Royal Saloon No 9006

Passenger Comforts

Mixing bowl, ceramic, North Eastern Railway, white, printed on side "NER" motif.

Ceramic mixing bowl, North Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

Salad bowl, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, unidentified maker; marked "20-England", "THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY" in oval garter on inside, fluted edge, blue and gilt edged, floral decoration inside and out.

Ceramic salad bowl, Great Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

Lidded bowl in form of stylised skull

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Bowl

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Nest of bowls with painted scene of copulating man and woman

Asian Medicine

Metal sugar bowl with two handles, some surface wear, stamped with makers mark and company logo

Nickel silver sugar bowl

Passenger Comforts

Bowl, glass, Great Western Railway - Hotels; circular, GWR roundel, with "HOTELS" banner below etched on glass.

Glass bowl, Great Western Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

Wall piece of a samian ware vessel

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 300 CE

Bowl, enamelled iron, chipped

Enamelled iron bowl

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

Minature black bowl, slightly concave sides

Classical & Medieval Medicine

475-375

Silver plated sugar bowl, Pullman Car Company.

Silver plated sugar bowl, Pullman Car Company

Passenger Comforts

Bakelite bowl

Plastics and Modern Materials

Bowl, ceramic, beige, depicting engine and four carriages and flat wagon in pastoral scene on outside rim, brown pattern on inner rim.

early staffordshire pottery bowl

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1830-1850

Bowl, ceramic, beige, depicting the locomotive Mail and four carriages and flat wagon in a pastoral scene on outside rim, brown pattern round inner rim.

early staffordshire pottery bowl

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1830-1850

Glass fruit bowl, with printed geometric decorative band, marked (etched) 2202/67. English, c. 1967.

Glass fruit bowl, with printed geometric decorativ

Domestic Appliances

c. 1967

Bowl, ceramic, Eurostar, Royal Doulton, maker's mark underneath.

Ceramic bowl, Eurostar

Passenger Comforts

Metal soupbowl, dented with some surface wear, stamped with makers mark and company logo

Nickel silver soup bowl

Passenger Comforts

Dish with two handles moulded in the shape of ribbon bows, made by Walker & Hall, Sheffield.

Silver plated bowl

Passenger Comforts

Sugar bowl, china, fluted, by Mintons, from Great Western Railway Royal Saloon No 9006, used by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, pale green with gold rim and dark green garland decoration, white inside.

Minton sugar bowl from GWR Royal Saloon No 9006

Passenger Comforts

Bowl

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Bronze bowl

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1000 CE

Ceremonial food bowl

Asian Medicine

1801-1900

Bowl, child's alphabet, ceramic, white glazed Staffordshire pottery, with hand-coloured transfer vignette of North Staffordshire Railway 2-2-2 locomotive emerging from tunnel, c1860.

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1860

Wooden bowl with handle, carved, Norwegian

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Ceramic cereal bowl, purple and white, 1999.

Ceramics

1999

blue and white bowl

Local History

Metal sugar bowl, engraved 'Newhaven - Dieppe', damaged surface, bearing makers mark

Silver plated sugar bowl, Southern Railway - Newhaven - Dieppe Service

Passenger Comforts

One of two plaster copies of the base of a Samian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1935

Fragment of Samian bowl(?), with moulded relief

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 400 CE

Soup bowl, ceramic, Caledonian Railway, made by Royal Doulton; cream china with yellow & brown decorative border, CR crowned monogram.

Ceramic soup bowl, Caledonian Railway

Passenger Comforts

Soup bowl, ceramic, Great Western Railway - Restaurant Cars, made by W H Grindley and Company Limited, Tunstall - Grindley Hotel Ware "ROSELLE"; white with red floral garland border, marked underneath "GWR RESTAURANT CARS".

Ceramic soup bowl, Great Western Railway - Restaurant Cars

Passenger Comforts

Fragment of brown glazed pottery bowl

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 300 CE

Bowl

Textile Industry

Glass bowl from medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1750-1830

Hexagonal bandalasta bowl no.151, coloured cream with black powder marks, made of thiourea-urea-formaldehyde. BANDALASTAWARE, c. 1926.

Thiourea-urea-formaldehyde hexagonal Bandalastaware bowl , 1924-1931

Plastics and Modern Materials

1924-1931

China charm bowl, with Arabic inscription and magic circle, from Palestine, made in Staffordshire

China charm bowl, with Arabic inscription and magi

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Earthenware bowl marked GRVI, for emergency feeding purposes, by Adams, 1949

Earthenware bowl marked GRVI

Nutrition & Food Technology

1949

Baling bowl, for emergency feeding purposes, 1952

Baling bowl

Nutrition & Food Technology

1952