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Clay bull. Animal stands on short legs, neck wide and muscular, head held high, with short horns above protruding ears to either side of a mop of hair. Brow is prominent and holds two etched eyes while snout shows an incised mouth and nostrils. Stomach is rounded and hangs low, each side painted with a large oval of red-brown. Tail curves up onto back and is decorated in a stamped herringbone pattern. At top centre of back is a hole with a short neck and rounded rim leading into the hollow centre of the vessel.
Clay bull. Animal stands with head raised on a wide muscular neck, horns curving to the front over small square ears. Eyes are incised, as are nostrils and mouth, and tongue rises to lick nose. Loops of clay decorate the face and fall down the animal’s chest in a double row. Pin wheels are placed at edges of mouth, on head, back of neck and sides of stomach. Tail curves to rest on back and falls to the side, long and wide, with defined hair at end. On centre of back is a hole surrounded by a tall flaring neck that leads into the hollow centre of the vessel. Figure is painted a mottled orange and yellow-green overall with brown lines and swirls and the outlines of a saddle.
Double spout, salt glazed bridge handle bottle with flat base, yellow-green paint and four double fruit forms in body. Straight tubular spout with flanged and flat lips, one blind spout in the other side. Breakage repaired.
Brown woolen shawl. Textile is long and relatively thin, made in a fine weave and dyed a medium brown. Centre panel is undecorated. At each end are decorative panels in a loose weave that narrow away from centre, ending in a sparse fringe. A handwritten label is attached at back centre.
Small container with lid, made out of a hollowed gourd. The gourd (part a) is decorated with elaborate carvings of harvest scenes, musicians playing outside a building, fruit picking in an orchard, women talking. Two panels showing a stylized frog divide the scenes. The base of the gourd is decorated with carved geometric designs. The lid (part b) is cut out of the gourd and is convex, bulging in the centre where a stem would be. It is decorated as a stylized flower.
Small container with lid, made out of a hollowed gourd. The gourd (part a) is decorated with elaborate carvings of musicians and dancing, and travellers with donkies. Trees, birds, flowers and huts appear in the background. Six small panels, three on each side, show small animal creatures with arms out-stretched. The base and lid of the gourd are decorated with matching carved geometric designs. The lid (part b) is cut out of the gourd and is convex, rounding toward the centre where a stem would be.
Fifty-eight turquoise beads, with different sizes and forms; most are partly broken. Group a) Thirty-five have a slightly twisted form; three are blue and black and two are blue and white. Group b) Twenty-one beads have square form. Group c) Two turquoise beads with a twisted form.
Spanish style glass lamp with ovoid body, tubular spout, concave-ring base and vertical bands painted on in yellow and grey. Unbroken. Part b is the gilt bronze bell-shaped lid. Circle decorations at rim with hole in the interior and one suspension lug at middle of body. Lid is corroded and incomplete.
Double conical long-spout bottle with globular form, flaring ring on base and green monkey on strap-bridge handle. Dark brown-black polished surface. Light green inside ring base. Molded manufacture.
Small, shiny black bottle, with two vertical side loop handles and a flat base.