Material Type: Artefacts - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/1
Title:: དཔར་ཤིང
Scope & Content:: A wooden block, carved with dozens of figures and symbols, used for making imprints of figures or symbols into tantric ritual offerings made from tsampa (barley dough). The figure on the horse is called Tarak mi rak (tib. རྟ་རག་མི་རག wylie. rta rag mi rag). Extent: One wooden dough mould. Size a...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 11

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/2
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ or རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ
Scope & Content:: A ceremonial dagger. A key tantric ritual instrument. Made from iron and brass with brown and yellow cloth attached. Extent: One ritual dagger. Size and dimensions of original material: 26.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition for its age. Custodial history: The older...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 3

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/3
Title:: རྡོ་རྗེ་ and དྲིལ་བུ
Scope & Content:: A modern vajra / dorje and bell. A ritual object and musical instrument used together in tantric rituals. Extent: One vajra / dorje and bell. Size and dimensions of original material: Bell is 14 cm long and 6.5 cm across. Vajra is 9.5 x 3 x 3 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition. C...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/4
Title:: རྐང་གླིང
Scope & Content:: A human thighbone trumpet and case. The wide end of the thighbone is covered in leather, the shaft bound in string and brass, the mouthpiece also in brass. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals, An attached cloth once of five colours, now ragged and dirty with age and usage. The case is...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 2

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/5
Title:: ཌ་མ་རུ
Scope & Content:: A damaru / swivel drum. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Extent: One swivel drum. Size and dimensions of original material: 10 x 10 x 6 cm. Condition of original material: Good condition. Custodial history: The older material has been handed down from father to son for at least f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/6
Title:: སྦུབས་ཆལ།
Scope & Content:: A pair of brass cymbals. A musical instrument for use in tantric rituals. Extent: One pair of modern brass cymbals. Size and dimensions of original material: 27 cm across and 5 cm deep. Condition of original material: Good condition. Custodial history: The older material has been handed down fr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Late 20th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1221/22/2/7
Title:: ཀ་པ་ལི
Scope & Content:: A tantric ritual vessel made from the top of a human cranium, with a brass cover lid and brass bowl. Extent: One human skull cup, one brass lid and one brass bowl. Size and dimensions of original material: Kapali is 4.5.x 3.5 x 2.5 cm, Lid is 5 x 4 x 1.5, Bowl in 9 cm acroos and 3.5 cm deep. Con...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tibetan
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 1

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1241/4/5
Title:: Pesengan Lingsir-lingsire
Scope & Content:: This copper-plate contains a short genealogy of the owner’s family. Lempengan ini berisi tentang silsilah keluarga pemilik koleksi. Extent: 2 copper-plates. Size and dimensions of original material: height 6 cm, width 8 cm. Condition of original material: Good.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Balinese and Old Javanese
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 4 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: Foster 8
Title:: Britannia being presented with the riches of the East. Symbolical group illustrating the commercial wealth of Britain. Commissioned by the East India Company in 1728 for the Court Room of East India House. Artist(s): Rysbrack, Michael (1694-1770)
Scope & Content:: Symbolical group illustrating the commercial wealth of Britain, 1729-30. Britannia, seated on a globe under a rock by the sea shore is looking towards the east. Her right hand leans on a Union shield and her left holds a trident. She wears a naval crown. Before her stand three female figures; In...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1729-1730
Extent:: 1 Item

Reference (shelfmark):: Foster 33
Title:: Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Equestrian statuette. Artist(s): D'Orsay, Count Alfred Guillaume Gabriel (1801-1852) and Nicholson, Thomas Henry (d. 1870)
Scope & Content:: Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769-1852). Made c.1845 Equestrian statuette. Bareheaded in uniform. Bronze; 19 ins (48 cms) high Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded D’Orsay wrote to Henry Bulwer, March 1845, saying ‘I have just made a statuette of the Duke of Wellington on h...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1845
Extent:: 1 Item

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