Metalwork

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Smelting of GoldRelief depicts metalworkers employed in the manufacture of jewelry, smelting gold by

Coqs et poules. Damassé | Hippocampes et algues. Dentelle | Lézards et ronces. Grille en bronze (Roo

The Hindu goddess Kali.  Unknown artist from Tamil Nadu, India; 11th century.  Now in the Los Angele

Combination lockSafavid Persia, 17th centuryThis padlock has alphabetical combination marks, running

Large Vajra (Dorje), Tibet or Nepal, 19th century.

Brass Scepter. Fon People, Republic of Benin. 20th century. 

Ethiopian shield, made of leather, velvet, gold leaf, silver, and copper.  Now in the Peabody Museum

A silver-inlaid brass tray, of shallow form with scalloped cavetto and narrow flattened rim, inlaid

Snake pendant of the Ebrié people, Lagunes region, southernCôte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; 19th cent

Wheel take a seat - 3On a York cycle path, a nod to York’s railway heritage.

Brass EwerIran, 7th-8th century (late Sassanian-early Islamic) (37.2 x 20 x 17.8 cm) This ewer with

Prayer Book in pea-pod style, 1623. Gold with enamel and emeralds. Unknown artist. France. Via V&

Ancient Egyptian embossed silver usekh (”aegis”) with the head of a lioness, perhaps representing th

Wheel take a seat.Found this seat on a York Cycle track. Clearly designed with a nod to York’s Railw

Ewer decorated with female figures. Iran, Sasanian Period, 7th-6th centuries A.D. Silver and gilt. A

Silver bowl with lion, foliage, and a ring of raised dots. Central Asia, late 6th-early 7th c. A.D.

Silver and gilt plate and bowl with image of hunting king. Iran, Sasanian Period, 4th to 5th century

Ancient Egyptian bronze sculpture of a cat and her kittens, thought to have been created in honor of

Russel Wright, Planter, 1930-40. Aluminium, wood. Via Cooper Hewitt

Gold mask of the Akan people, Côte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; ca. 1890-1910.  Now in theMusée du qua

coolancientstuff:he Ardagh Hoard, best known for the Ardagh Chalice, is a hoard of metalwork from th

Paul III (Alessandro Farnese), unknown Italian artist, 16th century

Bronze aegis of the goddess Isis, showing the goddess wearing a tripartite wig with twelve uraeus-se

Bronze portrait of a man, variously identified as Marcus Agrippa or Marcus Antonius.  Artist unknown

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