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View full screenMonymusk Reliquary consisting of a rectangular casket and lid in the form of a roof, made from wood, copper alloy, silver, enamel and blue glass, decorated with intertwined animals, and possibly once containing a relic of St Columba, from around the 8th century AD
H.KE 14
Scotland, Northern Europe
8th century
Yew, Copper alloy, Silver, Gilt copper alloy, Glass, Enamel
Bronze, silver, wood, copper alloy, glass, enamel
Saint Columba
Grant of Monymusk
Abbot Bernard de Linton
Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Northern Europe
Arbroath, Angus, Scotland, Northern Europe
Celts (10 Mar 2016 - 25 Sep 2016)
National Museum of Scotland
Celts: Art and Identity (24 Sep 2015 - 31 Jan 2016)
British Museum
Caldwell, D.H. (ed), Angels Nobles and Unicorns: Art and Patronage in Medieval Scotland, Edinburgh: NMS, 1982
Youngs, Susan (ed), 'The Work of Angels'. Masterpieces of Celtic metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London: British Museums Publications Ltd, 1989, pp 134-5
Calder, Jenni, The Wealth of a Nation, Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland and Glasgow: Richard Drew Publishing, 1989, pp 26, 74
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Framed painting, portrait of Lieutenant James Irving, 1st Bengal Cavalry, oil, by Rajah Sansome, India, 1839
Framed painting of a Private of the Scots Fusilier Guards, oil on canvas, artist unknown, c. 1850
Glazed framed painting of an Unknown Pupil of the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, oil on board, by Francis C. Inglis, 1934
Painting, portrait of Sergeant A. Ferguson, Edinburgh, a Pensioner of the Scottish Naval and Military Veteran's Residence, oil on board, by Francis C. Inglis, 1934
Small framed painting of an Officer of a Grenadier Company in a Highand Regiment, oil on canvas, artist unknown, c. 1778
Original painting by T. Curr of a Highland soldier by a cross, 1914 - 1918, gouache on board, used for a poster for the Scottish National War Memorial
Framed painting, portrait of Piper George Findlater, V.C., 1st Gordon Highlanders, oil on canvas, by Richard Copeland Weatherby
Framed painting entitled 'Closing the Gates at Hougoumont, 1815', Scots Guards, oil on canvas, by Robert Gibb, R.S.A., 1903
Painting entitled 'Robert Grant of Lurg', framed and with descriptive tablet, oil on canvas, painted when he was 97 years old in 1769
Framed and glazed painting, portrait of Sergeant Wallace, Royal Scots Greys, oil on canvas, artist unknown, 1832
Painting of General Fredrick Campbell of the Royal Artillery, oil on canvas, artist unknown, probably first half of the 19th century
Miniature portrait, on ivory, depicting the Queen of Delhi, Begum Sahiba Zeenat Mahal, wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar, c. 1850
Painting entitled 'Under Orders' showing soldiers of the Black Watch and civilians in a barrack room in Edinburgh Castle before the regiment embarked for Egypt, 18 July 1882, oil on canvas, by R. Gemmell Hutchison, 1882
Painting, portrait of Lieutenant James Stewart, 42nd Royal Highlanders, oil, artist unknown, c. 1780