Every Object Tells a Story6 May – 26 June 2015 Introduction Press Gallery Every Object Tells a Story6 May – 26 June 2015 Introduction Press Gallery Every Object Tells a Story6 May – 26 June 2015 Introduction Press Gallery 1 • Jade Boulder 2 • Green Jade Pebble 3 • Red Porphyry Slab 4 • An Ottoman Tombak Vessel with Roman Porphyry Lid 5 • Porphyry Bowl 6 • Marble Stem-Cup 7 • Porphyry Tray 8 • The Emperor’s Foot 9 • Kemal Bey 10 • Touchstone Button 11 • A Diorite Owl Eye-Idol Bowl 12 • Cylcon Stone 13 • Two Alabaster Egyptian Mummy Butt-plugs 14 • Three American Indian Stone Plummets 15 • Two Olmec Divination Stones 16 • A Mayan Stone Emblem of a Ball-Game Knee-Guard 17 • A Mayan ‘Prestige’ Flint 18 • A Large Mayan ‘Prestige’ Flint 19 • A Grooved Stone Celt 20 • Bactrian Stone Cosmetic Dish 21 • Winged Lion with Rider and Drum 22 • A ‘Golden Horde’ Gold Belt Fitting 23 • Hunting Hound 24 • The Hero of Mythology 25 • A Fired Earthenware Female Idol 26 • Gandhara Grey Schist Head of the Buddha 27 • Primo Carnera, Champion of the World 28 • A Celtic Bronze Wassail Cup 29 • Celtic Stone Head 30 • A South Arabian Alabaster Stele 31 • A South Arabian Alabaster Stele 32 • A South Arabian Alabaster Gazelle 33 • A South Arabian Limestone Gazelle 34 • A South Arabian Marble Head 35 • A South Arabian Marble Head 36 • Alfredo Biagini 37 • An Archaic Bronze Zither Tuning Key (Qin Zhen Yao) 38 • Three Chinese Ivory Plectrums 39 • Two Amlash Terracotta Idiophones 40 • The 13th Dalai Lama’s Double Bass 41 • Ottoman Tanbour 42 • A Pair of Ottoman Tanbours 43 • Ottoman Tanbour 44 • Ottoman Tanbour 45 • Ottoman Saz 46 • Ottoman Saz 47 • Setar 48 • Ottoman Oud 49 • Ottoman Oud 50 • Ottoman Kermanche 51 • Ottoman Kermanche 52 • Tambura 53 • Tambura 54 • Ivory Sarinda from the Adil-Shah Court in Bijapur 55 • The Zikr Drum 56 • ‘Picasso’s Guitar’ 57 • Three Bell-Stones 58 • ‘La Piedre Campana’ 59 • ‘Arreador de Ñandu’ 60 • ‘Las Tabas’ 61 • A Collection of Forty Scrimshaw 62 • Two Caricatures 63 • A Collection of 56 Erotic Glass Negatives 64 • A Tibetan Phallus made from Mammoth Ivory 65 • Green Schist Phallus 66 • A Roman Bronze Votive Phallus 67 • A Red Sandstone Architectural Fragment 68 • Shunga from the Album ‘Imayo Irokumi No Ito’ 69 • A Fon Wood Phallus 70 • ‘Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet’ 71 • A Rare Bone of a Dodo 72 • An Alabaster Sculpture of a Dodo 73 • Bronze Skeleton of a Dodo 74 • The Dodo 75 • Bronze Cast of the Foot of a Dodo 76 • Didus the Hooded Dodo 77 • Head of the Dodo and Three Bones 78 • A Rare Specimen of the Kakapo Parrot 79 • A Rare Dibitag Gazelle’s Skull 80 • An Exceptional Example of the Extinct Passenger Pigeon 81 • An Eskimo Baby’s Blanket 82 • An Alchemist’s Porphyry Mercury Bowl 83 • Taino Stone Zemi 84 • Two Iron Voodoo Presentoirs 85 • A Shaman’s Jaguar Tablet for Hallucinogens 86 • A Plains Indian Shaman’s Talking Wand Head 87 • Cameo Blue and White Glass Plaque with a Head of Hermes 88 • Yoruba Divination Tray 89 • Han Pottery Money Bag 90 • Pilgrim Tokens from Mevlana’s Shrine 91 • A Pair of ‘Witch’s’ Mirrors 92 • An Earthenware Soul-Catcher 93 • Mirror of the Soul 94 • Coco-de-Mer carved in Burma 95 • Six Kashkuls 96 • A Sooth-Sayer’s Grimoire in Geez Script 97 • Tibetan Monastery Key 98 • A Timurid Lapis Lazuli Spoon 99 • A Timurid Tinned Copper Spoon 100 • A Ming Foot-Massager 101 • A Ming Official’s Travelling Hat-Stand 102 • A Scribe’s Eraser 103 • Man Ray: Objet Trouvé 104 • Concorde Flown High Pressure Turbine Disc 105 • Wencslaus Hollar 106 • Wencslaus Hollar 107 • Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn 108 • Albrecht Dürer 109 • Albrecht Dürer 110 • Albrecht Dürer 111 • Melchior Lorch 112 • Jean-Joseph-Pascal Gay (1775-1832) 113 • The First European Representations of Mecca/Medina 114 • Ka’ba Key? 115 • Sanyasi with a Turban of his own Hair 116 • Four Celestial Globes on a Stand 117 • A Collection of Nine Polyhedrons 118 • Tsar Dadon meets the Shemakha Queen 119 • Alexandre de Salzmann 120 • The Begum Samru 121 • Colonel Claude Martin’s Cobra 122 • The Sepoy of Goa 123 • A Pair of Safavid Tiles 124 • Early Safavid Opium Tweezers 125 • Silk Heraldic Animal Rug 126 • A Silk ‘Samarkand’ Pictorial Saf 127 • Anthology of Poetry 128 • The Calligrapher’s Craft 129 • Red Jasper Paper Burnisher 130 • A Mughal Agate Paper Polisher 131 • A Magnificent Ottoman Cabinet 132 • Dido’s Ring 133 • Two Pairs of Hellenistic Gold Earrings 134 • Hellenistic Gold Bracelet with Signature of its maker Mestor 135 • Gold Ring with Agate Bezel 136 • Gold Ring with Agate Bezel 137 • Gold Ring with Agate Intaglio 138 • Gold Ring with Agate Intaglio 139 • Jade Seal of Pir-Budaq 140 • Cornelian Seal of Qubadh bin Khalil of the Ramadan Oghullari 141 • Timurid Jade Seal Ring 142 • Giotto’s Campanile in Florence 143 • A German State Glaive of the Bodyguard of Sigismund Franz, Archduke of Austria 144 • Whitworth Patent Percussion Volunteer Match Prize Rifle 145 • Jambudvipa
