Bucket Collection (page 9)

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

Detail of a Celtic bucket from the Oseburg Ship burial, 9th century
Detail of a Celtic figure on a bucket handle from the Oseburg Ship burial in Norway. It appears to be Irish, from a Viking raid. Now at the Viking Ships Museum in Olso, 9th century

Assyrian relief of a genie protector, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
Assyrian relief of a genie protector with a bucket and a cedar cone, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad. From the British Museums collection

Detail of the hand on a relief of an Assyrian genie
Detail of the hand on a relief of a protective Assyrian genie, covered with Cuniform script. At the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Celtic bronze head on bucket, Aylesford, Kent, England, c1st century BC

Representation of Crodon, 1834. The Saxon god Crodon, standing on a fish, holding a bucket and displaying a pierced dish

Representation of Crodon, 1656. The Saxon god Crodon, standing on a fish, holding a bucket and displaying a pierced dish. From Annales Circuli Westphaliae by Herman Stangefol. (1656)

Dr Syntax in Danger, 1820. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Dr Syntax in Danger, 1820. A physician peers down Syntaxs throat, while a manservant rushes in holding a steaming plate and wooden bucket of cold water

Two Chinese scenes, c1830. The top image shows two itinerant traders, one holding the hand of a child with a windmill toy. The lower picture is of three men planting rice in a paddy field

Reversible hoist for raising leather buckets from a mine shaft, 1556
Reversible hoist for raising leather buckets from a mine shaft powered by an overshot water wheel, 1556. A man in a hut at O opens and shuts water races to stop and start a double row of buckets

Vintage French postcard, c1900

Illustration for Jack and Jill went up the hill, Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). Artist: Catherine Greenaway
Illustration for Jack and Jill went up the hill, Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). For a book of nursery rhymes

Low(e) art and whitewash, 1873. Artist: Joseph Swain
Low(e) art and whitewash, 1873. Mr Robert Lowe slaps whitewash onto the sturdy figure of a policeman. The British police had been under fire in recent years following various scandals both in London

Two Girls of The Period, 1869. Artist: John Tenniel
Two Girls of The Period, 1869. This cartoon shows a fashionable protestant convert to Catholicism looking in horror at the Catholic nun

The Gladstone Pill, 1860. Dr Gl-dst-ne says: There, Mr Bull-Swallow it at once, and it will Relieve your Chest Directly. Mr Gladstones 1860 Budget had increased direct taxation once again

How Dirty Old Father Thames was Whitewashed, 1858. A British workman in overalls and boots holds a large brush in one hand, and a handkerchief to his nose with the other

Woman Emptying a Bucket, 1834-75. Creator: Pierre Millet
Woman Emptying a Bucket, 1834-75

Girl Filling a Bucket with Sea Water, ca. 1830. Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Girl Filling a Bucket with Sea Water, ca. 1830

Man with Buckets, 1870s. Creator: Unknown
Man with Buckets, 1870s

The Maid of All-Works Prayer!!, July 25, 1801. July 25, 1801
The Maid of All-Works Prayer!!, July 25, 1801

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