A gallery of images included in Random Treasure.
If you wish to know why and how a group of such disparate and random images and their stories have been brought together in a single volume, you can find out if you buy the book.
Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew: stoneware pitcher, 1926 – The Jug . Image used with permission of Bonham’s 
The front of The Jug showing the Latin inscription 
A stoneware bowl made by Bernard Leach in the early days of the St Ives Pottery 
Saint John the Evangelist by Claus de Werve – The Saint. Image used with permission of PIASA and Laurence Fligny 
Saint John rear view. Image used with permission of PIASA and Laurence Fligny 
The Mourning Virgin, attributed to Claus de Werve, in theparish church of Saint Genest, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Cote d’Or, France. Image used with permission of PIASA and Laurence Fligny. 
The Mourning Virgin and Saint John, photographed together on the occasion of their brief reunion in the church at Flavigny, February 2013. Image used with permission of Laurence Fligny 
A limewood statue of the Virgin by Tilman Riemenschneider, around 1490, in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. Photograph from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30983838 by Rufus46 – Own work, used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 
Oak bracket shelf containing a carved relief face from a mediaeval corbel or misericord, manufactured by MacGregor of Edinburgh as the support for The Saint 
The Ashworth-Hepplewhite-Gray miner’s safety lamp 
Octagonal plate by Clarice Cliff in the Appliqué Lucerne pattern, colour Orange 
An imperforated Penny Red stamp posted on 16 September 1845 
An 1859 cartoon by Honoré Daumier showing the auction crieur Père Jean in action. Open access image reproduced from http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.56774.html 
An 1859 cartoon by Honoré Daumier showing an auction crieur working the crowd. Source: http://www.zeno.org – Contumax GmbH & Co. KG. Image reproduced from http://www.zeno.org/nid/20003968812 
Doucai Chicken Cup sold by Sotheby’s in April 2014 for $36 million. Photograph used with permission of Sotheby’s 
Diamond-encrusted golden egg made by in 1990 by the jeweller Paul Kutchinsky for the Argyle Diamond Mining Company of Australia. Copyright © 2016 Rio Tinto 
Installation of 80 stoneware guinomis by Phil Rogers (1951-2020) 
Chinese porcelain Langyao vase, Qing Dynasty – The Big Red Vase 
Stoneware jug by Raymond Finch (1914-2012), Winchcombe Pottery –
Not-The-Jug
Lambent, oil on board, by R T H Smith, 1972 
A typical Wally Bird lidded stoneware jar by the Martin Brothers. Photograph used with permission © Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
An earthenware sgraffiato-decorated bowl, maybe mediaeval Port St Symeon or Aghkand ware, maybe not 
Glasgow style pewter brooch modelled on the Honesty Mirror, maybe by Frances Macdonald McNair, maybe not 
The Honesty Mirror, by Frances Macdonald McNair, in the Kelvingrove Museum and Gallery, Glasgow 
One of four small etchings of head studies or tronies, maybe by Rembrandt, maybe not 
A Satsuma vase 
Yaozhou Peony Bowl, Northern Song Dynasty. Photograph used with permission of Sotheby’s 
New Testament title page, Andro Hart’s Geneva Bible, Edinburgh, 1610 
Walnut wood sculpture of an Apostle from the Theuley altarpiece. Image used with permission of PIASA and Laurence Fligny 
An alabaster mourner carved by Jean de la Huerta and Antoine le Moiturier for the tomb of Duke John the Fearless. Image by Shonagon from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pleurant,_tombeau_de_Jean_sans_Peur,_60.JPG reproduced under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication 
The Bear and Staff pub in Charing Cross Road, London. Photograph by Robert Freidus reproduced from The Victorian Web at http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/pubs/28.html 
Diners at the Golden Egg restaurant on Charing Cross Road, London, 22nd October 1963. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 
The Queen’s Head pub, Water Oakley, near Windsor 
Stoneware split pod form by Alan Wallwork (1931-2019) 
Silver Charles II crown coin of 1679. Obverse 
Silver Charles II crown coin of 1679. Reverse 
Title page of Psalm Book printed by Andro Hart, Edinburgh, 1617 
Title page of the Bay Psalm Book, Boston 1640. Image in public domain sourced from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bay_Psalm_Book_title_page.jpg. 
The playbill for Mrs Warner’s perfomance in The Winter’s Tale at Rice’s Theatre Chicago, Wednesday 19 May 1852
Random Treasure 
