Every Object Tells a Story4 May – 5 July 2017 Introduction Press Gallery Events Every Object Tells a Story4 May – 5 July 2017 Introduction Press Gallery Events Every Object Tells a Story4 May – 5 July 2017 Introduction Press Gallery Events 1 • The Unicorn’s Horn 2 • The Fossilized Tip of a Unicorn’s horn 4 • A Metal Unicorn’s Head 5 • A Bronze Figure of Winged Pegasus 6 • Three Indus Valley Seals with Unicorns 7 • Chinese Silver Unicorn (Kylin) 8 • Jean Duvet 9 • Hans Baldung Grien 10 • An Elephant Made from Driftwood 11 • The Tusk of a Hippopotamus 14 • Zhulong 15 • ‘The Horse that Sweats Blood’ 16 • A Hoopoe Flying above an Oriental Landscape 17 • Michael Cooper 18 • Two Polished Stone Symbols of Sexuality 19 • Remarkable Inscribed Chalcedony Ear-Lobe Weight 20 • Two Biconical Carnelian Long Beads 21 • Five Holy Harlots from the Indus Valley 22 • Three Terracotta Fashionistas 23 • Terracotta Male Figure 24 • A Mother-Goddess Riding Out 25 • A Carved Limestone Male Bust 26 • A Banded Alabaster Male Figurine 27 • Copper Figure of a Royal Female Figure Making an Offering 28 • A Rare Cast Bronze Cosmetic Flask in the Form of a Woman 29 • A Cast High-Copper Bronze Head of a Priest-King 30 • A Copper Figure of a Wild Boar 31 • Indus Valley Seals 32 • A Monkey Bead made of Shell 33 • An Adjusted Cubical Chert Weight 34 • Basalt Pebble Carved as a Mouflon 35 • A Fossilised Shell Perfume Flask in the form of a Whale 36 • A Black Chlorite Cup 37a • A Miniature Bull Carved in Striped Agate 37b • A Miniature Wolf in Banded Agate 38 • A Polished Limestone Seated Bull 39 • Pair of Gold Bangles 40 • Three Shell Bracelets 41 • A Pair of Sumerian Gold Earrings 42 • A Necklace of Gold, Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise 43 • An Oval Agate Seal 44 • A Copper Votive Female Figurine 45 • A White Nephrite Seal 46 • An Important Pair of Early Silver Male and Female Figurines 47 • A Group of Eight ‘Singing’ Alabaster Vessels 48 • A Polychrome Terracotta Container 49 • A Grey-Ware Ceramic Bowl 50 • A Terracotta Drinking Vessel 51 • A Terracotta Jar 52 • A Terracotta Bowl 53 • A Terracotta Scoop 54 • A Tall Terracotta Bulbous Vase 55 • A Large Terracotta Jar 56 • An Important Fragment of a Terracotta Ritual Vessel 57 • A Terracotta Bowl 58 • A Large Terracotta Bowl 59 • Three Horned Heads of Mouflons 60 • A Carved Stone Bear 61 • A Glazed Limestone Owl 62 • An Anaconda in Brecciated Granite 63 • A Yellow Steatite Seal in the form of a Coiled Anaconda 64 • A Solid Cast and Gold Inlaid Silver Bull 65 • Double Cube Vessel 66 • Circular Pot with a Sleeping Wolf (on the lid) 67 • Cosmetic Pot Engraved with Two Rams 68 • Beaker with Geometric Decoration 69 • Beaker with Geometric Decoration 70 • Cup with a Feasting Scene 71 • Tall Goblet with Hunting Scenes 72 • A Banded Alabaster Vase 73 • A Black Schist Cup with Feline Handle 74 • A Red Jasper Ritual Lamp Stand 75 • A Gold Vessel 76 • A Jasper Beaker 77 • A Chlorite Box 78 • A White Nephrite Jade Head of a Ram 79 • A Gold Pendant in the form of an Eagle with Outspread Wings 80 • A Bronze Belt-Buckle in the form of a Coiling Serpent 81 • A Chlorite Bowl 82 • A Silver Pin with a Sabre-Tooth Tiger’s Head 83 • A Lapis Lazuli Three-Faced Pazuzu on a Gold Electrum Pin 84 • A Large Agate Barrel-Shaped Bead 85 • A Large Spherical Agate Bead 86 • A Yellow Stone Figure of a Dromedary 87 • A Polished Dark Green Granite Phallus 88 • A Stone Monkey and Child 89 • A Copper Pin Head in the form of a Seated Monkey 90 • An Alabaster Monkey in an Attitude of Prayer 91 • A Miniature Obsidian Monkey Talisman 92 • A Miniature Bronze Monkey Amulet 93 • A Miniature Limestone Bear Amulet 94 • A Mongolian Golden Eagle Leather Hunting Bonnet 95 • A Group of Ancient Seals 96 • A Solid-Cast Bronze Figure of a Mountain Goat 97 • A Copper Seated Human Figure 98 • Three Bronze Axe-Heads 99 • Nine Mace Heads 100 • A Shell-Inlaid Schist Spouted Vessel 101 • A Rare Miniature Agate Figure of a Crouching Shaman 102 • Scar-Faced Monster Man 103 • An Openwork Copper Alloy Garment Pin 104 • Two Bronze Trumpets 105 • A Bowenite Head Gazing Towards the Heaven 106 • An Important Large Bactrian Copper Bowl 107 • A Bronze Bull 108 • A Scythian Bronze Deer-Head Harness Fitting 109 • An Achaemenid Bronze Seal in the Shape of a Falcon 110 • Three Bronze Amulets 111 • A Scythian Gold Pin 112 • A Greco-Scythian Gold Ear-Lobe Ornament 113 • A Greco-Scythian Jade Lion-Head Harness Attachment 114 • A Pair of Hellenistic Gold Earrings Inset with Turquoise and Pearls 115 • A Scythian Bronze Rattle with Four Masked Beans 116 • A Translucent Alabaster Ear-Lobe Decoration 117 • The Tattooed Man 118 • A Repoussé Gold Diadem Inset with Turquoises 119 • A Remarkable Scythian Nephrite Jade Buckle in the form of the head of a Saiga Antelope 120 • An Animal-Style Bronze Harness Ornament 121 • A Pair of Sino-Siberian Chariot Fittings 122 • A Bronze Figure of Bejewelled Lakshmi 123 • A Rare Kushan Ivory Carving of a Loving Couple (Maithuna) 124 • An Important Oval Bronze Portable Buddhist Shrine 125 • A Green Chlorite Fragment of a Relief Showing a Man in a Yogic Posture 126 • A Hephthalite Green Phyllite oval plaque 127 • A Bronze Bowl Showing Hercules and the Lion of Numea 128 • The Rape of Europa 129 • A Falcon’s Gold Leg-Ring 130 • A Gold Pin with a Copper Core 131 • A Soghdian Bronze Mouflon 132 • A Scythian Copper Pin with a Standing Male Figure 133 • An Iron Figure of a Crouching Furry Creature 134 • A Circular Green Chlorite Plaque Carved with a Goddess 135 • Silver Gilt Statue of a modest Venus 136 • An Ivory Cosmetic Pin-Handle 137 • A Fine Ivory Cosmetic Palette 138 • An Indo-Greek Bronze Plaque 139 • A Dark Red Chlorite Cosmetic Dish Carved with the Goddess Nana Riding a Lion 140 • A Green Schist Oval Cosmetic Dish 141 • A Green Chlorite Cosmetic Dish 142 • An Orange Carnelian Seal 143 • An Eastern Helenistic Engraved Agate Pendant 144 • Agate Seal with Gajalakshmi 145 • An Eastern Hellenistic Engraved Agate Seal 146 • A Scythian Silver Belt Fitting 147 • A Bust of Bacchus 148 • A Bronze Figure of Eros 149 • A Bibulous Bacchus on an Upturned Amphora 150 • A Rock Crystal Foot from an Imperial Chryselephantine Statue 151 • A Rare Romano-British Bronze Figurine of a bound Prisoner 152 • An Etruscan Bronze Female Votive Figure 153 • A Ptolemaic Bronze Bezel of a Ring 154 • A Hellenistic Agate Bowl and Dish 155 • A Cornelian Seal of the Sasanian King Shapur II 156 • An Agate Seal of the Kushanshah King Hormazd I 157 • Shiva’s Trident 158 • A Mauryan Stone Roundel 159 • A Terracotta Concave Mould 160 • A Miniature Bronze Statue of a Begging Ascetic 161 • A Bronze Goblet Illustrating the Story of Prince Kunala 162 • A Superb Grey Schist Statue of Prince Siddhartha 163 • An Early Bronze Image of the Buddha 164 • A Unique Gandhara Bronze Mask of Sakyamuni 165 • A Bronze Seated Buddha 166 • A Bronze Seated Buddha 167 • Buddha Seated on a High Lotus Throne 168 • The Bronze Bust of a King of Kapisa in Devotion 169 • A Kushano-Sasanian Brass Figure of a Kneeling King 170 • A Carved Green Schist Fragment 171 • A Rare Kushan Bronze of Skanda Karttieya 172 • Four-Armed Tara on a Double Lotus Throne 173 • A Silver-Inlaid Miniature Bronze Image of Prajnaparamita 174 • A Yellow Phillite Figure of Vishnu 175 • A Mauryan Carnelian Gaming Piece 176 • Copper Sieve 177 • A Green Phyllite Cosmetic Bottle 178 • A Bronze Cow and Calf 179 • A Relief of Poplar Wood showing a Buddhist Guardian King 180 • A Rare Steatite Stamp with the text of the Bodhigarbhalamkaralaksa Dharani 181 • A Green Steatite Stamp 182 • A Semi-Circular Fragment of a Green Steatite Stamp 183 • A Dedicated Conch Shell 184 • A Triton Shell Trumpet 185 • An Olmec Conch Shell Trumpet 186 • A Flying Phallus 187 • A Tibetan Stone Phallus 188 • A Mammoth Tusk Phallus 189 • A Bronze Shiva-Lingham 190 • A Stone Shiva-Lingham in a Lotus Pond 191 • A Polished Stone Lingam 192 • Yoni Bare 193 • Three Terracotta Oil Lamps 194 • An Enamelled Silver-plated Bronze Locket Talisman 195 • A Bronze Phallic Talisman 196 • A Magnificent Phallus Totem of Agarrobo Wood 197 • A Byzantine Gold Ring 198 • A Byzantine Gold Ring 199 • A Hellenistic Gold Ring with Carnelian Intaglio 200 • A Byzantine Glass Weight 201 • A Magnificent Roman Agate Plate 202 • A South Arabian Alabaster Stele 203 • A Large Limestone Panel 204 • Vellum Qur’an Leaf from the Mushaf Al-Hadina (‘The Nurse’s Qur’an’) 205 • Bifolium from a Mamluk Qur’an 206 • An Ottoman Calligraphic Panel 207 • Noah’s Ark 208 • A Mongol Silver Spouted Vessel 209 • A Mongol Copper Boss 210 • An Important Pierced and Gilded Bronze Roundel 211 • An Early Islamic Bronze Portable Cannon (Midfa) 213 • A Fatimid Carved Marble Jar and Stand 214 • An Ivory Chess-Piece 215 • Four Early Islamic Jades 216 • A Gilded and Nielloed Cast Bronze Incense-Burner 217 • A Nephrite Jade Seal of the Timurid Ruler Shahrukh 218 • A Rare Ak-Koyyonlu Iron War Mask 219 • A Mamluk Tile 220 • An Ottoman Hexagonal Plaque 221 • A Bronze Pool Ornament in the form of two Toads 222 • A Talisman of Jade 223 • A Bektashi Taslim Taj Stone 224 • A Chalcedony Baraka Bead 225 • The Khwarazmshahi Gold 10 Mithqal Weight Dinar 226 • Abu’l Hasan Ghaffari, Sani’ Al-Mulk 227 • A Mughal Chalcedony Ribbed Sphere 228 • A Rare Shah Jahan-Period Jade Spoon 229 • Two Silver Gilt Temple Pendants 230 • An Iron Horseshoe Damascened in Silver 231 • A Massive Steel Shrine Lock 232 • The Emblem of the Sufi ‘Order of Fraternity’ 233 • Bektashi Dervish’s Back-Scratcher 234 • A Bektashi Carved Carnelian Talismanic Pendant 235 • A Magnificent Safavid Qur’an 236 • A Cast Bronze Fountainhead in the Form of a Lion 237 • The Oranienburg Fox 238 • Bronze Aeolipile 239 • Madonna and Child 240 • A Rare Nagare Botoke Sculpture of a Bosatsu 241 • A Laquer-Maker’s Tray 242 • An Ivory Tea-Leaf Holder 243 • A Huge Wood Bowl for Mixing Lacquer 245 • An Eye-Agate Amulet 246 • A Talismanic Eye-Agate 247 • A Bronze Antimony Flask in the form of a Bejewelled Courtesan 248 • A Fine Enamelled Gold Cross Inset with Garnets 249 • An Indo-Dutch Carved Ostrich Egg 250 • An ‘Indo-Portuguese’ Carved Ivory Vessel 251 • An Eskimo Child’s Blanket 252 • Twelve Postcards 253 • An Eskimo Walrus Ivory Amulet 254 • An Eskimo Hand Spear of Walrus Ivory 255 • John Hewett’s Whaler’s Cane 256 • An Eskimo Walrus Ivory Adze 257 • The Cottel Sisters’ Spoons 258 • A Whaler’s Capstan 259 • Six Exceptional Eskimo Marine Ivory Figurines 260 • Twelve Stones 261 • An Engraved Ica Andesite Pebble 262 • Sophie Grandval 263 • Stargazer 264 • The Mask of a Shaman 267 • A Polyhedron of Seymchan 269 • A Massive Polished Boulder of Banded Jasper 270 • A Gogotte Stone 271 • A Brass-Handled Granite Cheese Weight 272 • A Magnificent Chinese Scholar’s Rock 273 • Skull Pomander 274 • A Voodoo Priest’s Silver Cane Top 275 • An Ivory Memento Mori 276 • An Ivory Pyramid Pierced by a Three-Point Star 277 • A Steel Sphere Pierced by a Six-Point Star 278 • An Eight-Point Star 279 • A Giant Marvered Glass Trade Bead 280 • John Martin 281 • Felicien Rops 282 • A Contrabass Balalaika 283 • An Inscribed Curved Ivory Hu 284 • Ten Shaligram Stones 285 • A Highly Polished Black Hardstone Ceremonial Axe Head 286 • A Rock-Crystal Mortar and Spherical Grinder 287 • A Rock-Crystal Domed Sri Yantra 288 • A Rock-Crystal Domed Sri Yantra 289 • A Fine Rock-Crystal Sri Yantra 290 • A Rock Crystal Skull-Cap (Kapala) 291 • An Earthenware skull-Cap (Kapala) 292 • A Voodoo Priest’s Cane 293 • The Cosmic Egg 294 • An American Indian Omphalos Flint 295 • An Outstanding Banded Hardstone Pebble on a Finely Wrought Chinese Wood Base 296–301 • Porphyry 302 • A Fluted Wood Vase and Cover 303 • Three Sectioned Wood Cones 304 • Rhinoceros Horn Cup Mounted in Ivory 305 • Twelve Turned and Pierced Ivory Spheres and Six Associated Bases in Ivory and Ebony 306 • A Byzantine Constellated Alabaster Paten 307 • A Knotted Calabash 308 • Two Stone Lingams 309 • An Ammonite Fossil on an Ormolu-Mounted Breccia Base 310 • A Tantric Diagram 311 • A Buddhist Reliquary 312 • Cosmic Man 313 • An Ormolu-Mounted Gold-Flecked Lapis-Lazuli Corinthian Column 314 • A Masonic Table and Sphere in Bronze 315 • Two Stone Figures of a Dancing Goddess 316 • A Pair of Brass Great Stellated Dodecahedrons 317 • Egyptian Wood Torso of a Woman 318 • The Beard of a Pharaoh 319 • A Hardstone Vase 320 • An Egyptian Wood Head-Rest 321 • Urban Oblomovsky 322 • Man Ray 323 • Salvador Dali 324 • Man Ray 325 • Man Ray 326 • Man Ray 327 • Jim Dine 328 • A Mahogany Artist’s Palette 329 • Howard Cook 330 • Samuel Margolies 331 • Paul Landacre 332 • Paul Landacre 333 • Paul Landacre 334 • Paul Landacre 335 • Birger Sandzen 336 • Birger Sandzen 337 • Thomas Hart Benton 338 • Wanda Gag 339 • Barbara Latham 340 • A Fine Display of 28 Hawk Hoods 341 • A Gold Falconer’s Call 342 • A Set of Holtzapfel Woodworking Chisels 343 • A Dayak ‘Soul Boat’ 344 • Four Baoule Wood Bobbins 345 • Wooden Spoon Girl 346 • A Monoxylic Drinking Cup from the Yaka People 347 • A Colossal Copper Anklet 348 • An Ifuagao Wood Food Bowl 349 • Seven Hokata Shells 350 • Bakia Currency 351 • Old Snake Money 352 • Copper Currency 353 • A Shark Fishing Hook 354 • Rice Cutter 355 • Pearl-Shell Bride Piece 356 • A Comb-Shaped Pendant in Mottled Hardstone 357 • A Fossilized Coral Ceremonial Axe Head 358 • A Hardstone Axe Head 359 • An Ivory Standing Female Figure 360 • A Mughal Ivory Pommel 361 • An Ivory Pen-Box 362 • Two Hawaiian Stone Adzes 363 • Johnson Donatus ‘Okhai Ojeikere’ 364 • A Lele Tribe Dance Mask 365 • H.M. Bateman Addenda
