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Gates with scrolling foliage design in four quadrants.
Wrought iron & brass gates - 1862-65
Designer - Bruce James Talbert
Made by Skidmores Art Manufactures, Coventry, England.
Now National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Panelled doors with cross wing like design.
Music Room doors of the Behrens House
#Mathildenhöhe #Darmstadt #Germany
1900/01
Made by H. E. Eggers of Hamburg in wood, aluminium & bronze.
Displayed Institut Mathildenhöhe, Städtische Kunstsammlung Darmstadt
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A metal field gate with some decorative curled details at its top corners, attached to black posts on either side. There are dry grasses and fallen leaves at the base of the gate. In the background is a large grassy field with sheep in the distance, a large tree with sprawling branches stands prominently on the right side, while a tall evergreen tree is on the left and other trees in the distance. The sky is cloudy and overcast.
A metal field gate with some decorative details at its top corners & looking not to have been opened for a while given the dry grasses & leaves gathered around its base; seen recently on the National Trust's Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire 🐑🐑
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A large lidded copper flagon with a handle, embossed with an image of a heron.
Copper flagon
Newlyn Copper Works
c. 1900-1920
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
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New Tyne and Wear Metro train at Platform One with circular ornament to platform canopy.
Details of circular ornament to canopies & footbridge.
Tynemouth Station, Tyne and Wear
The North Eastern Railway station opened in 1882 is famous for the station canopies architecture.
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Iron gates with pierced upper panels & closed square designs below.
Central Station, Newcastle
Porte cochère, covered entrance way for vehicles, of 1862
Still with original iron gates, with pierced upper panels.
Passengers pass them daily to enter the station, but vehicles no longer use the porte cochère.
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Similar use of Nürnberg coat of arms, the German/Imperial eagle & the Bohemian lion. Thus emphasising sovereignty & the status of medieval Nürnberg. With this heraldic alliance the imperial city of Nuremberg depicted itself as an important pillar of the empire. It demonstrated its close relationship to the Bohemian crown. Such doors were symbols of sovereignty and standing. They closed important rooms in government and administrative buildings, but also in churches. Museum caption
Door with lozenges
Nürnberg, second half of 14th century
Pine wood & iron
Interesting to compare Nürnberg doors in the V&A Museum & this in Germanisches Nationalmuseum, #Nürnberg.
Both emphasising sovereignty & the status of the medieval city.
See ALT text.
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I have a rare WW1 #bronze medal that was awarded to a British nurse for her service. Her story is here.
I am donating to the archives of a nursing museum
historicalclues.blogspot.com/2026/01/harr...
It was created by James Spedding and Roger Foyster at Holkham Forge from a design by Polly lonides of Norton parish.
👀 Church of St Margarets,
Burnham Norton, #Norfolk
Coronation Gate - King Charles III in 2023.
The dragon is from the story of St Margaret of Antioch. The dragon/Satan is transformed into a friend.
Thistle & marguerite are symbols for St Margaret of Scotland
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The roundel shows Cupid (on the left) hunting a horned animal (middle) with dog (bottom).
Roundel
Bronze (copper alloy),
3rd Century CE
The roundel shows Cupid hunting a horned animal with dog.
Now Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge
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A perfume vessel in the shape of a female head.
Perfume vessel (balsamarium)
Bronze (copper alloy)
c. 300-200 BCE
The vessel is in the form of a female head.
Found at Vulci in Etruria, #Italy
Now Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge
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Small jar with enamelled decoration of tiny diamond pattern, wavy lines & birds.
Small stopper with diagonal banding.
Small #Roman jar
Bronze (copper alloy)
C. 100-300 CE
Small jar (amphora) with enameled inlay decoration and stopper.
In Fitzwilliam Museum, #Cambridge
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