A selection of ceramics through the ages (5 second delay) Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology The Collections:
PotWeb: Ceramics online
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Early Europe & Near East
Classical to Medieval
Europe from 1500
Oriental & Islamic
People and their collections
Rupert Bruce-Mitford: A Case Study
His early life
Bruce-Mitford was born of Anglo-Canadian parents at the beginning of the Great War. His father died when he was only four years of age. He was the youngest of four boys and went to school at Christ's Hospital in London. He gained a history scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, in 1933.
What was he like? Rupert Bruce-Mitford New Bodleian Collection
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