Art and design Containers

How do people use containers? to keep things together to protect us from the contents to separate things out to protect the contents to store stuff to keep things organised to keep things safe to transport things to look important to put things in to give to other people to tell you about what’s inside to show things off to serve things in or on

Spouted jug Made in Iznik, Turkey 1510 Stelton coffee pot Designed by Arne Jacobsen Denmark 1967

Outer coffin of Henutmehyt Thebes, Egypt Around 1250 BC Coffin in the shape of an eagle Teshie, Ghana 2000

Wooden baby carrier with porcupine quill decoration and brass rattles North America 19 th century Carved wooden cradle From Albania

Pottery oil jar for offerings at the grave Athens, Greece BC Bronze gui (food bowl for offerings to ancestors) from Henan province, China Western Zhou dynasty 11 th century BC

Krater (bowl for mixing wine) from Rhodes made in Greece BC White porcelain Moon jar made by Park Young-sook Korea 2005

Relic-holder From Gandhara, in modern Pakistan 2nd-3rd century AD Length 7.4cm Reliquary containing fragments of the skull of St Eustace Made in Germany About 1210 Height 35cm

Net bag made of synthetic yarn and marsupial fur From Wara Kar, Papua New Guinea 20 th century Width 70cm Parfleche (folded pouch) made of bison skin Blackfoot people, Canada AD Length 70cm

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