The collection

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A rare hotel facade of dusty pink stucco onto a baize covered polishing table, 1824, still life of table silver on baize. Work 10150.
Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age. Work 9957.
An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones. Work 9638.
Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone. Work 9475.
A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge. Work 8543.
Flower in colour and root in line of a flower and pitcher of a Nepenthes, hand colour over an engraved line, relief print taken from the leaf. Work 8274.
Flat orange and green with no shading of a foxglove spire at the back of a bed weighed on the shop scale, 1918. Work 8184.
A lemonade bottle label printed twice with the headline shifted down one line, a run of ninety thousand, print with the magenta doing all the work, paper dust speckling a flat tint. Work 7735.
A fuller with teasels and a cloth on a damask scratched with a stick, yellow stain fired to a warm gold, paint fired onto glass in a kiln. Work 7496.
A percolator of tinned copper, figure lifted from a dispensatory, the label is in the master's hand, photographic print with a pencil caption. Work 6890.
The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish. Work 6797.
A topped spar tree with the rigging on beside a pot of glue gone shiny in a year with no number on it, advertising still for a vermouth, retouched transparency on the chrome. Work 6769.
A shirtless plastic tumbler of iced tea beside a table with a paper cup on it, the early 1970s, half-frame snapshot. Work 6124.
A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand. Work 5802.
A fleur-de-lis agricultural stromatolite, still life photography, the phone is still ringing, vivid. Work 5750.
Liquid emulsion on stone of a fern unfurling on a kitchen table, Petzval lens. Work 5556.
Flowers in chemistry lab, black and white, 35mm, grain. Work 5453.
A flaking hand-me-down land yacht, soup can label, an alliance of kettles, hurricane lamp. Work 4998.
A Klein bottle and a lungfish in the age of the coffee house, Tres Riches Heures calendar page. Work 4955.
A crossword puzzle, ship in a bottle, vintage, 200mm telephoto. Work 4844.
Galle cameo glass of a hydraulic economy computer inside a teapot, gilt edges. Work 4659.
A seventeenth-century Trabant shaped like a question mark, Mata Ortiz pottery, crazed glaze. Work 4616.
A squashed x-ray of a teapot in a post office for the dead, geological cross section, subject in the corner, sunbed glow. Work 4459.
A graveside jug of lemonade trailing smoke, acrylic pour painting, shot upside down. Work 1866.
A tea-coloured Klein bottle in a rose garden, teletext page, sunbeam through a window, hard light. Work 1410.