Emma Hawkins: A Natural World
9 January - 19 January 2023 • London
1 A Hematite 'blood' iron ore specimen
2 An impressive Magnesium ore specimen
3 A fine faceted synthetic Amethyst specimen
4 A Chinese stalactite specimen from the Guangdong province, dating from 700-900—BC
5 A fossil of a Sea Lily (Seirocrinus subangularis, Crinoidea family) Holzmaden, Germany, Lower Jurassic Period, circa 180m years old
6 A pair of large antique Giant Clam (Tridacna gigas) shells
7 A collection of eight assorted Abalone shells, early 20th century
8 A Victorian walnut and glazed display cabinet with an arrangement of sea shells and coral
9 A collection of assorted sea shells, 19th century
10 Two Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) teeth each on a section of jaw, Prehistoric
11 A fossilised Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) tusk, Prehistoric
12 A Victorian plaster cast of a Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) leg bone, 19th century
13 A pair of fossilised Irish elk (Megaloceros giganteus) antlers, Prehistoric
14 An assembled group of leg and foot bones from an extinct South Island Giant Moa (Dinornis robustus), New Zealand, extinct circa 1500 and possibly 1000 years old or earlier
15 A Great Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus) egg
16 Lady Cust's Great Auk egg
An egg of the Extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), Iceland, 1844
17 A section of Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) beak, circa 1500
18 A broken Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) leg bone , circa 1500
19 English, Elizabethan, circa 1600
A Seal Ring
20 An Elizabethan engraved presentation shoehorn by Robert Mindum, dated 1600
21 A Charles II silver mounted engine turned lignum vitae tumbler cup, circa 1680
22 A Charles II turned lignum vitae wassail bowl, late 17th century
23 A large English boldly turned lignum vitae mortar and iron mounted pestle, 17th century
24 An English boldly turned lignum vitae mortar and pestle, 17th century
25 A silver-mounted Boscobel Oak snuff box, unmarked, early 18th century
26 A Scottish Antiquarian relief carved bog oak portrait of Sir William Wallace, second half 19th century
27 A French colonial silver mounted carved coconut 'bugbear' taste vin, late 18th/early 19th century
28 Italian, 17th century
Devotional Pendant
29 German 17th/ 18th century
Three talismanic pendants
30 German, 17th century
A heart-shaped amuletic pendant
31 Spanish, early 17th century
Reliquary pendant
32 Three gold-mounted coral pendants, Italy and England, possibly 17th century and later
33 A 9 ct gold mounted Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris) beak brooch, Wanganui, New Zealand, circa 1880
34 A silver-mounted cowrie shell tobacco box, unidentified mark, probably Dutch or German, late 17th century
35 A Dutch East India Company (V.O.C) silver ingot from the Rooswijk cargo, Assay Master's mark of a rampant goat, circa 1739/1740
36 A gold-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, unmarked, probably German, circa 1859
37 A carved Scenic Agate shallow bowl, 19th century
38 An Italian veined Nero Antico marble mortar, 17th century
39 A group of sixteen Egyptian porphyry fragments
40 A Regency carved and turned 'Ashford marble' amphora vase, circa 1820
41 A Victorian portoro marble centre table, circa 1840
42 A pair of Russian gilt-bronze mounted Gaginskaya jasper pedestals, late 18th century
43 A Regency style fleece-upholstered and gilt-brass footstool
44 A Regency brass inlaid rosewood day bed
45 A pair of George IV mahogany pedestals, circa 1820, in the manner of William Trotter
46 A set of twelve Regency mahogany and leather upholstered dining chairs, nine circa 1815, three commissioned to match and later
47 An early George III oval mahogany drop-leaf table, circa 1760
48 A pair of Irish George III mahogany decanter stands, late 18th/early 19th century