863/1989/2
This slate panel has a decorative paint finish to imitate the wood grain of burr walnut.
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863/1989/9
This slate panel has a decorative paint finish to imitate local Ashburton marble.
163/1907
This is one of two plaster panels from the front facade of a merchant’s house in Exeter.
1035/1909
128/1937/U3
This is part of the collection of Harry Hems, an Exeter-based Victorian master woodworker and stone sculptor.
128/1937/U5
128/1937/Y1
This was collected by the Exeter sculptor and businessman Harry Hems, whose firm restored medieval churches throughout Britain.
863/1989/3
This slate panel has a decorative paint finish to imitate the grain of oak root.
863/1989/4
This slate panel has a decorative paint finish to imitate the wood grain of Austrian oak.
863/1989/5
This slate panel has a decorative paint finish to imitate a local marble.
863/1989/6
863/1989/7
863/1989/8
863/1989/10
127/2001/1
Made before 2001 Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands An important revival in Marquesan barkcloth (hiapo) is taking place.
27/2003/1
This sheet of paper is called barkcloth, or amate in the Nahua language of Mexico.
27/2003/2
27/2003/3
47/2004/2
This sheet of paper is called barkcloth, or amatl in the Nahua language of Mexico.
574/2007/9/1
Small samples of barkcloth from Tonga were likely by Lieutenant Fabien on 19 November 1835.
V5046
Inlaid paperweights like this may have been made by apprentices who were learning the skills needed to create more complex items.
14/1928
Apsley Pellat patented a process of encasing ceramic medallions within molten glass.
85/1928
73/1921/63/PRIORIS
These seeds are from a collection of specimens and photos chiefly concerned with economic botany collected by J R Jackson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
169/2005/121
These pinhead-sized parasites were collected somewhere in New Zealand in September 1957 and once formed part of a spirit preserved teaching collection belonging to the University of Exeter.
69/1967
Fixed ivory handle and silk cover woven with a decorative border.
9/1945/96
Like many mid 19th-century objects, parasols were produced by specialist manufacturers using materials imported from all over the world.
33/1968/1
38/1935
W. & J. Sangster of Regent Street, London was a well-known parasol manufacturer.
99/1977