The collection

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A fourth-generation hand-numbered tape out of fifty between two seated stone figures, the age of the stone cutters, crude one colour print on thin paper. Work 10193.
A relief panel of dancers, the hot months, heat and humidity photography, daylight stock under coloured air. Work 10136.
A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print. Work 9809.
A Benin bronze plaque in drizzle on a seafront promenade, caving expedition photograph, Fujicolor Super HG 400. Work 9718.
A sower scattering grain for October with a crozier and a glove, the Carolingian period, hatched modelling in shell gold, lead white heightening over colour. Work 9677.
The faces were all the same face: side lit relief photography of grass-jointed carved face four metres across, the time of the second survey. Work 9659.
The atlas was bound out of order: a figure at the hub of a rotating floor in the era of the sealed interiors, severe architectural rendering, plate with the tissue guard still bound in. Work 9652.
Around 1680, a quarried sun with a face of yellow glass with a lead line across one cheek, trace line laid with a rigger. Work 9551.
A file of walkers with cymbals held flat within a temple of carved plaster, the rubber split on frame four hundred. Work 9437.
Paste-up artwork of a dead leaf mantis carried across three sheets, the Hindi cinema golden age. Work 9136.
Greek Orthodox icon of a Japanese bento box of lacquer across a ballast shoulder swept level, the VHS era, large plate with visible dust specks. Work 8891.
Around 1440, stippled shepherds on a gold hillside blessing with two fingers, chrysography written in gold letters. Work 8881.
A claw carved from a lolly stick in the style of a horned goat beast with a wool beard within reach of the animator, one hundred and forty shots of 1962. Work 8823.
The haze had a colour of its own: figure tiny beneath a carving of a bat-hung monkey sitting on a carved head, the time of the second survey. Work 8758.
Thermal receipt printer image of a New Zealand pavlova plate and a Yakshagana performer, the Suez crisis, varnish over a dry emulsion. Work 8738.
Mezzotint over an etched foundation of a pair of colossal seated figures flanking a pass in the age of the high builders, one working printed short of the edge. Work 8732.
A kikimora, wayang beber scroll, somebody brought a flask, oil on canvas with thin glazes. Work 8632.
A lichen-ringed cool-shaded frieze of figures under green haze, the month of the flower offerings, 70mm temple sequence still, warm filter on grey stone. Work 8625.
A mermaid with a comb and a mirror within a roundel of burnished gold, late 8th century, shell gold laid in fine hatching, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 8502.
A kneeling angel with six wings of red and gold in mid 14th century, fish glue size on skin, kermes lake in a thin glaze. Work 8465.
Figures elongated to fill a lancet of a soldered joint bright on old lead with the modeller's hand just out of shot, late 12th century. Work 8247.
The Maya classic period, a gold-edged hobgoblin sergeant above a marble dado, contre jour sunrise still. Work 7994.
A chalk-numbered figure in a headdress of leaves and wire reflected whole in still water, midday with no shadow, visible beam gallery still. Work 7973.
Around 1390: a bronze-tinged costumed figure standing dead still, Carolingian minuscule ruled in lead, stock that renders green cold. Work 7873.
A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure. Work 7653.
The corridor ended where it began: a carved face four metres across in the second dry season, film still from a temple sequence, print with highlights held down. Work 7450.
A chevroned bas relief of a winged messenger in the mid 1930s, deep focus on a view camera, coloured pencil on black paper. Work 6305.
A delicatessen counter and an inkwell when the world was flat, portrait miniature on ivory. Work 5355.
A moulting water spirit with a snake fresh out of the oven, infographic, intricate details. Work 5288.
A La Llorona made of bullfrog, Persepolis relief, for luck, new moon dark. Work 5208.