Symmetry Collection

Crysotile asbestos
Scanning electron micrograph of 5-Fold symmetry in crysotile asbestos. Magnification on the 5 x4 transparency = X 600, 000

England / Milton Abbas
The distinctive charm of the village street of Milton Abbas, Dorset. Built in the 1780s by Sir William Chambers at the request of Lord Milton; an early English model village Date: 1950s

Al Khazneh Temple, Petra, Jordan
Al Khazneh (The Treasury) Temple, Petra, Jordan, carved out of the sandstone rock face. Date: 20th century

Art nouveau design with leaves
Art nouveau design with green leaves. Date: circa 1920s

Acanthophracta, radiolarians
Coloured lithograph by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur, 1899-1904. Date: 1904

J. S. Henry Ltd Living Room
A photograph of a living room, furnished almost in symmetry with chairs, tables and a screen from various periods supplied by J. S. Henry Ltd. Date: circa 1900

Faun with Panpipes
An illustration with elements of symmetry. Characters included in this image are a faun, seated left, playing some panpipes, inspired by the Greek god, Pan, and a warrior woman, seated right

Silhouette, Circus Acrobats. early 19th century

Art nouveau leaf design in brown, beige, grey and cream. Date: circa 1920s

Mesopotamian art. Neo-Babylonian. The Throne Room of Nebuchadnezzar II. Reconstructed facade. Dated in 580 B.C. Its 56 meters facade was decorated with colored glazed bricks as shows the composition

Art nouveau rose design in green, beige and cream. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau menu design with leaves and flowers. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau tree and leaf design with a space at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

Italy. Rome. The church of the Santissima Trinita dei Monti. Fac?ade decorated with two symmetrical bell tower, designed by Giacomo della Porta (c. 1540-1602) and Domenico Fontana (1543-1607)

Tallow-Chandler 1827
" The business of a tallow- chandler consists in making candles of suet or fat and in selling them after they are made". Date: 1827

Art nouveau design with birds and flowers. Date: circa 1920s

War mask pongdudu, made by Boa people (Congo). Used to engender fear in the enemy and served during war and dances. African art. Decorative Arts. BELGIUM. FLANDERS. BRABANT. Tervuren

Design for Printed Textile in purple and green. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio circa 1915

Facade of the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany
View of the front facade of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. The building opened in 1894 to house the German parliament

Spain. Catalonia. Besalu. Medieval bridge over the river Fluvia?. 12th century

Roman bridge. Spain
Roman bridge over the river Brulles. Sasamo?n. Province of Burgos. Castile and Leon. Spain

Ferdinand I / Hre / & Wife
FERDINAND I Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria, with his wife Date: 1503 - 1564

Carabus sp. beetles
Watercolour from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, c.1820s Date: circa 1820

Art nouveau style garden with flowers, trees, grass and water. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau design with green leaves and a space at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau window design in green, black, yellow and brown. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau design with green flowers and two rectangular spaces. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau abstract design in green and mauve. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau leaf design with yellow fruit and a space at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

German leaf and flower design with white roses, looking like a symmetrically laid out garden viewed from above. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette advertisement for Tailor Gowns, Paris
Silhouette advertisement for Tailor Gowns by H.L. Oakley, showing a stylised view of the Place Vendome, Paris

JAPANESE / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - two in snow (Grus japonensis)

ORANG-UTANS - adult and young looking at reflection in mirror (Pongo pygmaeus)

Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, USA
Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1925

Wootton Wawen Hall, near Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
View of Wootton Wawen Hall, near Henley-in-Arden in Warwickshire. It was built mainly in 1687 in the Palladian style, incorporating parts of an earlier, probably Elizabethan, house

Display of lepidoptera, illustrating variation
A collection of moths and butterflies. Only the four in the bottom left corner are butterflies, the rest are unusually colourful moths

Platanaster ordovicus, starfish
This echinoid dates from the Ordovician period. Starfish belong to the Echinoderm spiney skinned and were mostly bottom dwellers. They are also characterised by five-fold symmetry

Goniometer
For measuring face angles to check symmetry and aid identification

Entrance of the Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey
The Green Mosque (Yesil Camii) is one of the most important pieces of early Ottoman architecture, which carried many elements from the Selcuk architecture

Door of the Green Mosque in Bursa, Turkey
The Green Mosque (Yesil Camii) - one of the most important pieces of early Ottoman architecture, which carried many elements from the Selcuk architecture

Madeley Manor, Shropshire
The garden front of Madeley Manor, Shropshire, the seat of John Offley Esquire Date: late 18th century

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