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The Three Graces. Marble: height 173cm.
Carved by Antonio Canova (1757-1822) in Rome around 1814-17. Jointly owned by the Victoria & Albert Museum (A4-1994) and the National Galleries of Scotland. Reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum. © Copyright the V&A |
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The H?rold Vase (PE 666).
Exhibit of the National Art Collection, Porcelain Collection in the "Zwinger", Dresden, Germany. Front cover of Ion Beam Study of Art and Archaeological Objects, Editors: G. Demortier and A. Adriaens, 2000. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities Luxembourg . ISBN 92-828-7652-7 |
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Thymiaterion.
An Apulian Incense Burner (height approx. 30 cm). © Copyright The Manchester Museum. Accession number 37325. Examined by SR-XRD, W.
Kockelmann, E. Pantos,
and A. Kirfel,
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 Comparison of SR XRD patterns from stem and bowl of the thymiaterion (upper diagram scaled and shifted ). |
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Olpe. Miniature wine jug (height approx.
7 cm) said to be from Clusium (Chiusi) in Etruria.
The Manchester Museum, accession number 1963.110 © All images and text remain the property of The Manchester Museum. Examined by TOF-ND and SR, W.
Kockelmann, E. Pantos,
and A. Kirfel,
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 Profile fitted neutron backscattering pattern. |
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Kotyle.
Attic BG reproduction. Object donated by Thetis Hellas Ltd for experimentation. |
Set for glancing-angle SR-XRD at SRS station 16.2. |
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Hygeia.
Plaster cast of head of goddess of Health. Object donated for experimentation. |
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Coins donated for texture analysis at ESRF. The piece on the left is a Tetradrachm of King Ptolemy I Soter c. 305-283BC. Ptolemy I was one of Alexander's generals whose dynasty lasted until Cleopatra VII. Identified from Kraay, Greek Coins (1966) pl. 799. It was was handed down the Maunder family female line. The date when it was converted into a broach is not known, possibly after the Crimean war.
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Frame 1: Greek black-figure wine jug made in Athens ca. 500BC. A scene
from Homer's Odyssey. Odysseus has blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus, and
now escapes from his cave by clinging to Polyphemus' favourite ram as it
goes out to pasture. Accession number 1970.5.
Frame 2: Greek red-figure amphora (wine-jar), by the Berlin Painter. Made in Athens about 490 B.C., it shows the hero Herakles, dressed in a lionskin fighting a centaur, half-horse and half-human. Accession number 41458. © Copyright The Manchester Museum. |
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Echo. Bronze: height 246cm
By Max Onslow Ford, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside. From British Sculpture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, ISBN 0906367 98 0. By kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside. |