British Museum Plan

Renaissance to Modern (c. 1500 AD – present)

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  The Armada Service, 26 silver dishes found in Devon, south west England, late 16th to early 17th centuries AD
  
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  Early Renaissance Lyte Jewel, presented to Thomas Lyte of Lytes Cary, Somerset by King James I of England, (1610)
  
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  Huguenot silver from the Peter Wilding bequest, England, (18th century AD)
  
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  Pair of so-called Cleopatra Vases from the Chelsea porcelain factory, London, England, (1763)
  
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  Jaspar ware vase known as the Pegasus Vase made by Josiah Wedgwood, England, (1786)
  
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  Two of Charles Darwin's chronometers used on the voyage of HMS Beagle, (1795–1805)
  
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  The Hull Grundy Gift of jewellery, Europe and North America, (19th century AD)
  
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  Oak clock with mother-of-pearl engraving designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1919)
  
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  Silver tea-infuser designed by Marianne Brandt from the Bauhaus art school, Germany, (1924)
  
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  The Rosetta Vase, earthenware pottery vase designed by the contemporary British artist Grayson Perry, (2011)
  

The many hoards of treasure include those of Mildenhall, Esquiline, Carthage, First Cyprus, Lampsacus, Water Newton, Hoxne, and Vale of York (4th–10th centuries AD).

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Room 2 – Handaxe, Lower Palaeolithic, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, c. 1.2 million years BC

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Room 3 – Swimming Reindeer carving, France, c. 13,000 years BC^[79]

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Room 2 – Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, c. 9000 BC^[80]

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Room 51 – Mold gold cape, North Wales, Bronze Age, c. 1900–1600 BC

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Room 50 - Wandsworth Shield, Iron Age shield boss in La Tène style, England, 2nd century BC

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Room 50 - Gold torc found in Needwood Forest, central England, 75 BC

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Room 49 - Bronze head of a Roman Emperor Claudius, from Rendham in Suffolk, eastern England, 1st century AD

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Room 49 – Hinton St Mary Mosaic with face of Christ in the centre, from Dorset, southern England, 4th century AD

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Room 49 - Corbridge Lanx, silver tray depicting a shrine to Apollo, northern England, 4th century AD

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Room 41 - Silver objects from the Roman Coleraine Hoard, Northern Ireland, 4th-5th centuries AD

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Room 41 – Sutton Hoo helmet, Anglo-Saxon, England, early 7th century AD

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Room 40 - Ivory statue of Virgin and Child, who is crushing a dragon under her left foot from Paris, France, 1310-1330 AD

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Room 40 - Chaucer Astrolabe, the oldest dated in Europe, 1326 AD

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Room 40 – Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, made in Paris, France, 1370–80 AD

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Room 2a – Holy Thorn Reliquary, made in Paris, c. 1390s AD

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Room 38 – Mechanical Galleon clock, Augsburg, Germany, around 1585 AD

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Room 38 - Carillon clock with automata by Isaac Habrecht, Switzerland, 1589 AD

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Room 39 - Ornate clock made by Thomas Tompion, England, 1690 AD