"In each room a number of fine and often rare objects illustrate a particular subject area, suggesting connections with other themes that enrich the overall picture".

The ceramic vessels, lacquer trays and containers, and other objects associated with formal tea-drinking illustrate how esthetic and symbolic forms are related to utilitarian functions.

Eight objects emblazoned with one or more bulls illustrate the dynamic animal style as it evolved from naturalistic to sparely modeled images.

Thus, if, for instance, the object illustrated above contains 4 square inches of cross-sectional area, and the total load it is called upon to endure is 10 tons, the stress would be expressed as 2 1/2 tons.

Images and objects from the 18th century onwards illustrate the traditions of market day alongside associated activities such as butchery, wool trading or brewing.

Besides demonstrating the aesthetics of each culture, the objects illustrate how ingenuity was used to cope with the surroundings and the scarcity or abundance of resources.

But the most illuminating objects illustrate how everyday people in ancient Greece lived, traded, debated, fought, worshiped and buried their dead.

Drawn from private and public collections throughout the world, the objects illustrate the origins of the movement in Britain and how the ideas spread and were adapted in America, Europe and Japan.

They may illustrates contrasting sounds (minimal pairs), countable objects, uncountable objects, activities and so on.

Her image most succinctly captures the blurring of life and death that characterize Egyptian funerary art, but the other, less eye-catching objects in this remarkable exhibition also illustrate it.