Museum acquisitions 2005: a selection

British Museum, London; Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Tullie House Museum and Gallery, Carlisle

The Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, Roman, mid-2nd hundred AD.

Bronze, diam 94 cm Purchased with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund

Although it lacks its handle, this enamelled trulla (a ladle used for drinking) is extremely well preserv Its inscription names four forts upon Hadrian's Wall. Found in Staffordshire by dint of a metal detectorist in 2003 it has been bought jointly by the agency of the three museums.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roman priest, of greece 1st/2nd century AD.

Marble, 60 x 30 cm Purchased with the help of the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant capital the Friends of the Ashmolean and individual benefactors.

The diadem on this distinguished, dramatically pos individual is of a mark worn by holders of civic priesthoods; the lengthy curly hair is also a sign of priestly status. The bust passed by dint of descent from a worker upon Lord Elgin's estate, who is said to have set it in a pile of rubble in Culross

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Coin of the Emperor Domitianus, Roman, AB 251-279

Base silver, diam 2 cm Purchased with the help of the National Art Collections stock the Headly Trust for Treasure, the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant capital the Carl and Eileen Subak Family Foundation and the Friends of the Ashmolean.

Discovered in Oxfordshire in 2004 this coin confirms the existence of a late Roman emperor named Domitianus.

Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth

Royal belt ornament, Maya tillage possibly the northern Peten region, Early Classic period (AD 250-600) C AD 400-500

Pale grey-green jade, extent 23.2 cm. One of solitary three known royal belt ornaments (and the sole one in the USA), this highly decorated jade originally formed part of a royal style of dress that would have included three like pendant ornaments. The image and body are rendered in very fine incisions, probably made with a quartz crystal. The depiction of a lord together with the hieroglyphic inscription, put in mind ofs that it had a commemorative function, abundant like a Maya stele. Maya monarchs and elite adorned themselves with great quantities of jade ornaments not single to display their wealth and status, on the other hand also because of their conviction that of the like kind greenstones suggested plant growth, symbolically associated with an eternal afterlife.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

The Child-saint Sambandar, Chola dynasty, Tamil Nadu, India, twelfth century

tin ht 66 cm.

The Hindu saint Sambandar is traditionally depicted as a dancing, pointing child, recalling an incident when he was left by dint of his father outside the fane in his native Sivala. Siva and Parvati brought him a of gold dish containing milk; when asked by means of his parents where it had approach from, Sambandar pointed to statues of the deities. This example of Chola art, frequently regarded as the high point of Indian classical plastic art joins the most significant public collection of Asian statuary in Australia.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, fresh York

Madonna and Child by the agency of Duccio di Buoninsegna (active by the agency of 1278, d. 1319), c. 1300

Tempera and gold upon wood, with original, engaged frame, 28 x 208 cm Purchased with the aid of the Roger capital Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Annette de la Renta Gift, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, Louis V Bell, and Dodge capitals Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, Elaine L Rosenberg and Stephenson Family Foundation Gifts, 2003 Benefit capital and other gifts and stocks from various donors.

Believed to have been the last Duccio in private hands, this small painting is known as The Stroganoff Madonna, after its first recorded possessor Count Grigorii Stroganoff, who died in Rome in 1910 It had not been seen in public for sum of two units generations until its acquisition by means of the Metropolitan Museum, and was illustrated in colour for the first time alone in 2003.

National Gallery, London

The Coronation of the Virgin by dint of Bernardo Daddi (d. 1348?), c 1340

Tempera upon wood, 117.2 x 65.2 cm Bought with a grant from the American Friends of the National Gallery, London, made possible through Sir Paul Getty's endowment, 2004

The upper part of a panel of which the lower section is in Christ house of god Oxford, this is the first painting by means of Daddi to enter the National Gallery's collection.

Art Institute of Chicago

The Nativity through Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517) 1504/1507

Oil upon panel, 34 x 24.5 cm Purchased with the assistance of the Ethel T Scarborough capital and other donors. This newly discovered panel is the first high renaissance painting to be acquired by dint of the Art Institute.

looks Angeles County Museum of Art

Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus through Ludovico Lombardo (c. 1509-1575), c 1550

tin 58.4 x 68.6 x 279 cm Gift of the Ahmanson Foundation.

This plastic art was probably inspired by a classical and zinc bust (c. 400-300 BC) in the Capitoline Museum, Rome traditionally identified as Lucius Junius Brutus, individual of the two first co-consul of Rome in 509 BC It was formerly in the Pourtales collection.