Carved Collection (#20)

Turkey - The ruins of the Wool Market at Ephesus (Selcuk) Date: 1908

Turkey - The ruins of the ancient Library at Ephesus, including fine carved corinthian capitals and lintels Date: 1908

Decorative relief carving from The Bayon (Prasat Bayon) - a richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. The subject here are Apsaras or celestial dancers. Date: circa 1920

Blue Mosque and Obelisk of Thutmose III
The Egyptian obelisk of Thutmose III (1549 - 1503 BC) - originally from Deir el Bahri opposite Thebes in Upper Egypt to commemorate campaigns in Syria

View of Aleppo - Ornamental stonework over an archway leading into the fabulous 13th century citadel. Date: circa 1910s

Bloodstone or heliotrope carvings
These frogs were carved from bloodstone by Paul Dreher. Bloodstone is green agate containing speckles of red jasper. All these derive from the cryptocrystalline quartz group

Jade group
A selection of rough and worked specimens of jadeite and nephrite. Jade is a gemstone and ornamental stone

The Wellington Tree Cupboard
This tree was made from an elm tree that sheltered the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium

Carved piece of Chinese amber (length 120mm)
Carved piece of Chinese amber, date and source unknown, though it may have originated from Burma

Harpoon carved from antler
Cast of an antler harpoon from the Magdalenian culture, 11, 000-18, 000 years ago (Upper Palaeolithic)

Dactylioceras commune, ammonite
This shows a Lower Jurassic snakestone from Whitby, Yorkshire, UK where a snakes head has been carved onto the ammonite

Stonework surrounding the front entrance to the Natural Hist
Close up shot of the detail carved in to the terracotta stonework on the front entrance to the Natural History Musuem. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse

Carved carnelian bowl
Carnelian is a transluscent yellow to orange variety of chalcedony (micro-crystalline quartz). This bowl was once the property of Sir Hans Sloane

Rubellite (Tourmaline) decoratively carved pendant. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Womans head carved in mammoth ivory
Gravettian age 25, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Crystal, carving and treated blue topaz
An orange crystal, colourless carving of Queen Victorias head and a heat-treated blue topaz gem of 0.24ct

Dancing woman in green serpentine

Nautilus pompilus, common nautilus
A seventeenth century carved nautilus shell showing three techniques used by Dutch craftsmen: cameo work, engraving and an opening resembling a helmet cut into the wall of the chamber

Precious opal
A Cameo representing the dawn, on a limonitic matrix from Australia. Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

Sicilian amber carving
An ancient artifact of Sicilian amber, a crudely carved talisman. Image from Amber the Natural Time Capsule Fig.24

Architectural features of the Main Hall
View of architectural features of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London. Showing the carved terracotta pillars and guilded ceiling panels

Glyptodon, giant armadillo
Skeleton of Glyptodon, meaning carved tooth. The Glyptodon was a mammal which lived between 2 million years ago to around 15, 000 years ago. See image number 1136 for model

Pink rubellite tourmaline
Chinese pendant carving in pink rubellite tourmaline

Topaz
Image of Queen Victoria carved in topaz. Topaz comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide)

Nephrite jade pendant
A nephrite jade pendant with inlaid mother-of-pearl eyes. Specimen orginates from New Zealand

Jadeite carved dish from China

Objects carved from nephrite jade
A bowl, cabochon, square seal and chinese carving in nephrite jade. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Belt-hook in lapis lazuli
Carved chinese belt-hook on a piece of rough lapis lazuli from Badakhstan. Lapis lazuli (sodium calcium aluminum silicate sulphur sulphate) is a rich blue opaque, semi-precious stone

Carved nephrite
A tiki from New Zealand (left), a seal from British Colombia, and a Chinese vase all carved from nephrite. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Turquoise
Four different examples of worked turquoise. Turquoise (hydrated copper aluminum phosphate) is perhaps one of the most valuable non-transparent minerals

Carved nephrite bowl
Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Nephrite owl carving
Stages in carving an owl in nephrite. Nephrite is actually not a mineral outright, but is a variety of the mineral actinolite

Quartz box and carved lizard
An ornamental box set with different quartz stones (silicon dioxide) including a large central citrine together with a carved lizard in cat s-eye quartz

CHILE. VALPARAISO. Moai statues of Ahu Akivi temple, megalithic busts carved from volcanic rock. Sculpture

Mirror. 2nd c. BC. Carved drawing depicting a woman breastfeeding a man. Etruscan art. Relief on bronze. ITALY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology

SPAIN. L Escala. Emp�. Roman city. Walls (1st c.BF). Phallus carved in stone, symbolising strength and prosperity. Roman art. Early Empire

Musician from Osuna
A Relief carving of a Musician. Osuna, Spain Date: 4th-3rd century BCE

At Mourg Aub
An angel-like figure carved in stone. From: Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, ancient Babylonia, &c. &c : during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. Date: 1821

Jugend front cover, woman at a well
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a woman in Italian renaissance costume, leaning against an ornately carved well. Date: 1898

The Norman West Door at Iffley Church
The Norman West Door at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley, Oxford. Date: circa 1907

Close-up view of Sphinx, Giza, Egypt
A close-up view of the Sphinx at Giza, near Cairo, Egypt, with two arabs standing just below the head. Date: early 20th century

Brass ornament, two birds
A brass ornament, depicting two birds with overlapping heads. Possibly of relevance to Hindu philosophy and religion

Brass ornament, two birds and tree
A brass ornament, depicting two birds pecking at a tree. Possibly of relevance to Hindu philosophy and religion

Sculpted rock relief at Shapour (Bishapur), Iran
A sculpted rock relief at Shapour (Bishapur), Iran. 1818

Suenos Stones - Forres
Suenos Stone - A Scottish Pictish Standing Stone at Forres, Scotland. The largest surving standing stone of its type in Scotland

Pre-Inca inhabited House at Tiwanaku with ancient doorway. Tiwanaku (sometimes Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) - a important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia

Temple of Isis, Philae Island, Egypt
The Temple of Isis on Philae Island (Lake Nasser, Nubia), Egypt, showing the entrance and a row of columns. It was later relocated to the nearby Agilkia Island to enable the construction of the Aswan

Scene outside the Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Watercolour painting of a scene outside the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. 1846

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