A London Salmagundi

Picture of embroidered linen canvas with coloured silks. Unknown artist. England, dated 1636

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Pendant Shaped like a Beetle with a Couple and a Young Man Playing an Instrument Blackwork and engraving, Jean Toutin, France, 1619

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Cittern. Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, ca. 1685

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Young Man in Portuguese Dress. Safavid Persia, mid-17th century

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Japanned cabinet, English or Dutch, late 17th century, two doors enclosing drawers, polychrome decoration of vases and flowers on a black ground

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Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Pomegranate about 1620–1630 Jacob van Hulsdonck

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Engraving depicting a foliate lion, plate from an unidentified suite by or after Wolfgang Hieronymous von Bömmel, Germany, ca. 1690-1700

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Print by Esaias van Hulsen, plate from a suite of 6 designs for goldsmith's ornament, Dutch, 1617

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Still Life with Flowers, a Silver-gilt Goblet, Dried Fruit, Sweetmeats, Bread sticks, Wine and a Pewter Pitcher. Clara Peeters,1611. Oil on panel.

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Mezzotint by Johann Peter Pichler, c. 1800; after the painting Cave with Resting Shepherds, 1653, by Guillam Dubois

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Man with a Scroll. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, c. 1645/1647

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Soldier with Feathered Hat. Jacques Callot, c. 1620/1623

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The monkeys outwitting the bears. Gujarat, India, 1600-1601

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Carved walnut fruit press in the form of a lion. Italian, ca. 1700.

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‘A Sciographie or Modell of that stupendious vessell which is at this day shewed in the Palace of the Count Palatine of Rhene in the citie of Heidelberg.’ William Hole, 1611.

from Coryats Crudities; Hastily gobled vp in five Moneths trauells in France, Sauoy, Italy, Rhetia com̄only called the Grisons country, Heluetia aliàs Switzerland, some parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, & now dispersed to the nourishment of the trauelling members of this kingdome.

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William Gouw Ferguson — Six Butterflies and a Moth on a Rose Branch, ca 1690

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Soul at Death, Soul in Purgatory, Blessed Soul and Damned Soul. Relief, coloured wax, by Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino, Italian, 17th century.

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