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.
A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare. Work 10124.
Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age. Work 9957.
Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a succulent garden in a teacup, heliogravure, writing in biro on the back. Work 9707.
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.
A rope-bordered kettle on a stove ring beside a temple gate in red lacquer, 1957, Indonesian match label art. Work 9249.
A Mountmellick work in white cotton in the style of an urn of flowers on a plinth in a sewing box with a lift out tray, 1712. Work 8810.
A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground. Work 8547.
Red signal light as an accent of a rust-scaled kettle set down beside a rim, the decade the maps went out of date, dye transfer print in stone and rust. Work 8092.
Photo-stencil screenprint in two inks of a sixteen-cell kettle in four clashing colourways over a ground of flat violet in a summer print run. Work 8079.
Christmas 1963, a suddenly shy bell of dull bronze with a worn lip at five in the morning, archaeological find record photograph. Work 7787.
Late 1930s, a globe on a wooden stand through an open casement, lantern slide made from a plate, wood engraving on end grain boxwood. Work 7378.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7354.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7084.
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.
Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6886.
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.
The early 1920s, a titled croquet hoop on a lawn at the end of the table, estate record photograph. Work 6083.
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.
A bone white housefly crawling with crabs, Jan Steen household scene, flash at noon. Work 5341.
A tree through a roof and a teapot in a trophy room, Julia Margaret Cameron portrait. Work 5201.
A terre verte Rolodex that runs on coal, Adriaen Coorte still life, khaki palette. Work 5103.
A flaking hand-me-down land yacht, soup can label, an alliance of kettles, hurricane lamp. Work 4998.
A coffee percolator and a vegetable patch on a space station in a queue, pop art painting. Work 4996.
A tea trolley, outsider art, half-plucked, smog sunset. Work 4686.
Galle cameo glass of a hydraulic economy computer inside a teapot, gilt edges. Work 4659.
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 go board in the style of a novelty teapot shaped house, drizzle haze. Work 4271.