Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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A set of 84 gold hares originally used as decoration on a dress.
A ceramic sculpture of a lemon and attached leaves.
An intricate chess piece carved into the form of two knights.
A charcoal and pastel drawing featuring three studies of a ballerina.
A blue glazed oval dish with a nude female fligure surrounded by shells and flowers
An earthenware tile with a lion in the centre, surrounded by blue and green decoration.
Still life oil painting of strawberries and cherries.
Design for a fan featuring pea stakers by Camille Pissarro
Gold earring set with semi-precious stones.
Still life photograph of Mother of Thousands plant by Kate Friend.
A pen and ink floral panel design by May Morris.
Anglo-saxon gold bracteate.
18th Century dish from China featuring three dragons amid clouds.
Plant model of Urtica.
Plant model of Vitis.
The plant models on display in In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World at the Ashmolean Museum.
A photograph of a woman ordering an ice cream from the Jude's ice cream van on the Ashmolean Museum's forecourt.
Small bag with embroidered roses, heartsease, daffodils, cornflowers and tulips within a scrolling design.
Ojime in the form of an aubergine with a ladybird detail.
Stone sculpture of a gazelle head.
Brightly coloured baluster vase covered in blooming flowers.
Watercolour of Stonehenge on a stormy day by William Turner of Oxford
A photograph of the Shedding Light installation.
A detail of the wallpaper featuring icons of sugarcane, ships, teacups and broken chains.
A detail of the wallpaper featuring icons of sugarcane, ships, teacups and broken chains.
A detail of the wallpaper featuring icons of sugarcane, ships, teacups and broken chains.
A 13th-century bowl with a central sun design. The bowl is blue and cream in colour.
Medieval green glazed puzzle jug
A silver and gold coloured ojime of a cat with it's paw raised
An oil painting of a vase full of colourful flowers.
A silver cup decorated with semi-precious stones around the rim and the base.
Photograph of Julia Jackson taken by Julia Margaret Cameron.
Chalk and ink drawing of Joan of Arc entering Orléans on horseback with a crowd surrounding her
Kyo-Satsuma vase in double-gourd form with mandarin ducks under cherry blossom.
Ewer made from lapis lazuli and gold
A view of a richly detailed wall drawing by Soma Surovi Jannat.
Watercolour painting of purple grapes and a yellow snail shell
White ribbed sake bottle with fuku (good luck) written seven times in each rib.
A prehistoric gold sun-disc
An 18th-century Indian painting of animal grotesques.
A still life of white, yellow and pink roses.
The centre of a dish with a blue flying crane surrounded by a blue floral pattern.
A tiny Roman period copper mouse laid down with its ears back
An ancient Egyptian clay statue of a seated lion.
An oil painting of a woman sat by an open window reading a book
An Ancient Greek silver coin with a bee design in the centre.
A watercolour illustration of a sunflower.
An Anglo-Saxon button brooch with a human face design in the centre.
A detail of a painting of a poppy with frayed petals.
A detail of a still life of flowers.
An oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough of his daughter Margaret dressed as a peasant girl.
An oil painting of fruit and a drink in a martini-style glass.