Handle Collection (#26)

Roman vase, 350-450 AD. Located in the Budapest Museum

Caldeirinha, 13th-16th century. From the Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Portugal

First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870)
First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, Russia, early 19th century, (c1870). Tsar Nicholas I (1796-1855), sending the first message from St Petersburg telegraph station

Ivory Dagger Handle of Camels Head, India, Mughal, 17th century. British Museum

Persian (Kashan) Ewer with cockerels head and tail handle, early 13th century. Painted in black under a turquoise glaze. Kashan is a city of Isfahan, Iran

Celtic bronze kettle with double handles, Unternack, Bavaria, Halstatt period, 750-600 BC

Water-Drinking Ladle, bowl in silver with ivory handle, Ceylon, 17th-18th century. At Victoria and Albert Museum

Roman Bronze Saucepan from Prickwillow, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, 2nd century

Roman clay lamp, 2nd century
Roman clay lamp, decorated with a two-handled cup, now in the British Museum, made in Tunisia, 2nd century

Roman Glass Bottle

Roman silver and gilt ladles with handles cast in the form of dolphins, 4th century
Silver and gilt ladles with handles cast in the form of dolphins, from the Mildenhall Treasure. It was ploughed up by chance in the 1940s at Mildenhall, Suffolk

Bucket handle from a Late Iron Age cremation burial, Iron Age, c75-c25 BC
Detail showing human face on bucket handle from a Late Iron Age cremation burial, Iron Age, c75-c25 BC. This bucket was placed in the grave of a Briton who was alive around the time of Julius Caesars

Etruscan bronze handle of a cista, showing Peleus and Thetis wrestling
Etruscan bronze handle of a cista from Palestrina, showing Peleus and Thetis, mother of Achilles, wrestling. Peleus had to wrestle Thetis in her many forms to win her hand

Celtic jug with double handles and volute decorations, 8th century BC
Celtic jug with double handles and volute decorations from Altmuhtal, Bavaria, 8th century BC

Detail of the Basse-Yutz Flagons, Iron Age, c400 BC. Two bronze flagons were found in 1927, at Basse-Yutz, France. They are two of the finest examples of Early Celtic or Early La Tene Art

Nootka Tribe Native American whalebone club, carved with an eagles head handle. From the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh

Egyptian ivory handle of a dagger
Egyptian hippopotamus ivory handle of a flint dagger from Gebel Arrak, south of Abydos, Egypt. From the Louvres collection

Hilt of an early bronze sword, 13th century BC
Hilt of a bronze sword from south Bavaria, Germany, 13th century BC

Hilt of an early bronze sword, 7th century BC
Detail of a bronze sword hilt from Bavaria, Germany, 7th century BC

Hydraulic machine IV, 1678. Artist: Athanasius Kircher
Hydraulic machine IV, 1678. A plate from Mundus Subterraneus, Amsterdam, 1678. Found in the collection of Jean-Claude Carriere

Pottery vessel with twin spouts (one missing) and strap-handle, Quimbaya, Columbia, 500-1000. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Lapis lazuli and gilt-bronze vase, Ekaterinburg faceting factory, Russia, 1845. Artist: Ekaterinburg faceting factory
Lapis lazuli and gilt-bronze vase, Ekaterinburg faceting factory, Russia, 1845. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

O Hara Dale stein mug with golfing theme, American, c1900

Malachite and gilt-bronze vase, Ekaterinburg faceting factory, Russia, c1841-c1842. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

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