deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portret van Dirk de Groot
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1885 – 1919
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: leeuwarden
Artist: henri paul emile de la roche busé
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1857 – 1940
Subjects: historical persons, youth, adolescent
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photogr. Etablissementen/ van/ H.P.E. de la Roche Busé/ te/ Leeuwarden/ en/ Bolsward./ Zoowel des winters als des zomers zijn bij/ alle weersgesteldheid de ateliers geopend/ van 9 tot 4 uur.’, inscription: ‘Dirk de Groot’
Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif
Object type: cowroid, hatshepsut fd, vulture, ankh
Date: 1479 – 1458
Materials: stone
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs
Gent. Gravensteen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1909 – 1909
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: gravensteen
Twee koeien in een weide
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1879
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jan stobbaerts
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1914
Subjects: cow, meadow, pasture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
De kerk Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, Rome
Object type: drawing
Date: 1788 – 1839
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: rome
Artist: hendrik voogd
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1768 – 1839
Subjects: church (exterior), rome
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Roma’
Zeegezicht met driemaster en parelvissers
Object type: print
Date: 1582 – 1582
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: southern netherlands
Artist: adriaen collaert
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1560 – 1618
Subjects: ships (in general), pearl fishing, pearl diving; coral fishing
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent maakt deel uit van een serie van 54 prenten met jachtscènes. Dit object is omwille van een betere presentatie virtueel samengevoegd maar bestaat fysiek uit losse onderdelen.
Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle
Object type: painting
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: oil, panel
Artist: paul ranson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1909
Subjects: women,dogs
Fragment
Object type: textile
Materials: textile, silk
Techniques: damask
Location: france
Soldaten beleggen een hinderlaag in het Camp de Châlons
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1857 – 1857
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: mourmelon-le-grand
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: private soldier, surprise attack (from ambush)
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 3’, inscription: ‘Une embuscade’, number: ‘No 1063’
Bijbelcitaat
Object type: calligraphy
Date: 1646 – 1646
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: calligraphy
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690

Passage uit het apocriefe boek Ecclesiasticus (of Jezus Sirach) 22:27-28, uit de Statenvertaling van 1637.
Koninklijk toernooi op Java
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1676 – 1676
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: mataram
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: Schouten, Wouter. Wouter Schoutens Oost-Indische voyagie (...). 2 dln. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs en Johannes van Someren, 1676, dl. 2, p. 146-147.
Arms Port, from the Parasol Drills series (N18) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: women

Trade cards from the "Parasol Drill" series (N18), issued in 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.
Louis IV. dit d'Outremer XXXIIe. Roi de France
Object type: print
Date: 1741 – 1741
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Subjects: london, ornament ~ medallion, historical persons, ruler, sovereign
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Bagpiper
Object type: figure
Date: 1745 – 1745
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Artist: astbury-whieldon
Artist role: maker
Subjects: men,bagpipes
De Reiziger
Object type: print
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: lambertus antonius claessens
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1763 – 1834
Subjects: giving water, feeding (cattle), 'en route', traveller under way, hotel, hostelry, inn, grooming
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een reiziger staat in het donker voor een herberg en verzorgd zijn paard. Een knecht haalt water voor het paard uit een bron. Links leidt een trap naast de oven naar de stal waar al een ezel staat.
Portret van een man met bakkebaarden
Object type: photograph
Date: 1885 – 1906
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: historical persons, old man
Watch
Object type: watch
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: horn, silver
Artist: firm of markham, marwick et marko
Artist role: maker
Halberd
Object type: halberd
Date: 1501 – 1533
Materials: steel, textile, wood
Culture: german
Location: germany
Zes tegels
Object type: tile
Date: 1599 – 1699
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: maiolica
Location: netherlands

Zes veelkleurige tegels waarvan 4 met hetzelfde ornament en de 2 overige verschillend.
Vis
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1916
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: jacobus gerardus veldheer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1954
Subjects: fishes
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Plate with a caricatural figure and inscription
Object type: plate dish
Date: 1725 – 1749
Materials: cobalt, glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: clown, types in 'commedia dell'arte': harlequin
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Pardi- al mijn actien kwijt’

Bord van porselein, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw en op het glazuur groen, zwart en goud. Op het plat een harlekijn en de tekst: 'Pardi- al mijn actien kwijt'; de rand met een decoratief patroon. Actiebord. Europese voorstelling in blauw-wit met emailkleuren.
Bud vase
Object type: vase
Date: 2700 – 2600
Materials: limestone
Location: mesopotamia
Rakan
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1401 – 1500
Materials: ink, silk
Culture: japanese
Artist: keinin sumiyoshi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Subjects: men
Bowl (one of a pair)
Object type: bowl
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: enamel
Techniques: painting
Culture: chinese
Subjects: human figures,trees
De heeren Tunes Valkenbuirg en L. Lame, met zich brengende een levendig Wonder-kind
Object type: reclamebiljet
Date: 1806 – 1815
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: female infant, deformations of the head - aa - female human figure, pleasure fair and circus, human monstrosities ~ freak show, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, collector's mark
Wereldtentoonstelling te Parijs 1867
Object type: history medal
Date: 1867 – 1867
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Artist: hubert ponscarme
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1827 – 1903
Inscriptions: hallmark: ‘(rozet) CUIVRE’

Bronzen penning, de voorzijde het portret van Keizer Napoleon III naar links met omschrift, op de keerzijde twee genien met een tablet waarboven een krans, op de achtergrond een adelaar, met omschrift en afsnedetekst.
Buddha Worshipped by the Gods Indra and Brahma
Object type: sculpture
Materials: stone
Location: gandhara
Subjects: buddha
Serie 3: Franse Godsdienstoorlogen, 1559-1573
Object type: history print
Date: 1565 – 1573
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: cologne
Artist: frans hogenberg
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1538 – 1590
Subjects: karel ix (koning van frankrijk), siege, position war

Gekopieerd naar de prent in: Jean Tortorel et Jacques Perrissin, Premier volume contenant quarante tableaux ou Histoires diverses qui sont memorables touchant les Guerres, Massacres et Troubles advenus en France en ces dernieres annees : le tout recueilly selon le tesmoignange de ceux qui y ont esté en personne et qui les ont veus : lesquels sont pourtraits à la vérité, Genève ca. 1570. Bibliotheek Rijksmuseum: 329 A 2, pl. 38.
Plattegrond van Brussel
Object type: area plan
Date: 1607 – 1609
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: maps of cities, brussels
Inscriptions: number: ‘30’

Plattegrond van de stad Brussel (Bruxelles). Linksboven het wapen van Brabant, rechtsboven het stadswapen. Rechtsonder een cartouche met hermen en de Latijnse titel. Links een deel van een blanco cartouche. Onderdeel van de verzameling kaarten genomen uit een latere editie van: Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi van Lodovico Guicciardini.
Jockeyship
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: men,horses,jockeys
Boomstammen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1881 – 1888
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: anton mauve
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1888
Subjects: trees (+ stem, trunk)

Blad 25 recto uit een schetsboek met 29 bladen.
Laster van Apelles
Object type: print
Date: 1602 – 1602
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: rome
Subjects: calumny of apelles: bad judge with ass's ears on throne, with deceit, envy, ignorance, suspicion and treachery, confronted with innocent accused; remorse and truth present
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Links op een troon zit een koning wiens domheid wordt getoond door zijn ezelsoren. Zijn adviseurs zijn Laster, Bedrog, Afgunst en Woede. Achter de troon staat Minerva om hem tegen te houden. Rechts een kunstenaar die onder valse voorwendsels door de koning veroordeeld zou worden. Hij wordt vergezeld door de naakte Waarheid en de god Mercurius.
Portret van een proefpersoon: 'un jeune homme'
Object type: page
Date: 1860 – 1862
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: paris
Artist: guillaume benjamin amand duchenne
Artist role: fotograaf, medicus
Artist dates: 1806 – 1875
Subjects: face, physiology and anatomy ~ nervous system, neurology, adult man, physiology and anatomy, morphology of facial expression, physiognomy, experiment, test ~ science and technology, france

Ongenummerde pagina met foto 15 uit Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions (Atlas).
Allegorie op de oprichting van Oprechte Vaderlandsche Sociëteiten in 1787
Object type: print
Date: 1787 – 1787
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: the hague
Subjects: william v (prince of orange), hope, 'spes'; 'speranza divina e certa' (ripa) ~ one of the three theological virtues, the all-seeing eye, triangle with eye ~ symbol of god the father, patriots (1780-1795)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Allegorie op de oprichting van oranjegezinde Oprechte Vaderlandsche Sociëteiten in 1787. Ronde voorstelling met een tuin met de Hoop staande bij een altaar, verder putti bij een monument ter ere van prins Willem V en een altaar "Voor Oranje" waarop een brandend hart. De Hoop wordt beschenen vanuit de hemel door het Hemels Oog. Op de grond boeken met de namen van de plaatsen waar al sociëteiten zijn opgericht: Den Haag, Rotterdam, Delft, Gouda, Leiden en Brielle. In het onderschrift een vers van tien regels.
Lange rij met mensen loopt langs een verhoging met muzikanten
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1880
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: crowd, mob, horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba

Ontwerp voor de kerstuitgave van de periodiek 'The Graphic' in 1878.
Korporaal Trim wordt door een non verpleegd
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1778
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Subjects: london, nun(s), literary characters and objects, nursing, tending the sick
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Elfde prent uit de serie 'XII Kupfer zu den Leben und Meynungen Tristram Shandy's' gedrukt op kosten van de Berlijnse boekhandelaar Christian Friedrich Himburg in 1778. De illustraties volgen een eerder verschenen tekstuitgave: [Stern, Laurence]. Tristram Schandis Leben und Meynungen [uit het Duits vertaald door] Johann Joachim Christoph Bode. 9 dln. Hamburg: Carl Ernst Bohn te Hamburg, 1776.
Dendere le Temple d'Hathor
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: photograph
Location: dendera
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture, temple, shrine ~ non-christian religions, façade (of house or building), sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)
Inscriptions: number: ‘5423.’, name: ‘J.H. DE WIT.<BR />Boek-en Kunsthandel<BR />Utrechtsche Straat 54,<BR />AMSTERDAM.’, collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST-<BR />NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS<BR />GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16.<BR />AMSTERDAM’, collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL <BR />QUELLINUS<BR />AMSTERDAM<BR />FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’
Persoon met mantel over het hoofd
Object type: drawing
Date: 1865 – 1930
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: jac van looij
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1855 – 1930
Portret van Maria de Wilde
Object type: print
Date: 1702 – 1713
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: print maker, maria de wilde, cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De schilderes en dichteres Maria de Wilde. Op de achtergrond een terras.
Ontwerp voor een bord voor de Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1945
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: work of applied art (+ ceramics ~ arts), names of organizations, companies, trade unions, etc., (other) historical names, dish, plate, saucer, batavia, indonesia
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Batavia’
Portret van Michel de Montaigne
Object type: print
Date: 1828 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: michel eyquem de montaigne, historical persons, scholar, philosopher (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, check stamp: ‘A[?]’
Paolo I Romano
Object type: print
Date: 1775 – 1775
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: venice
Subjects: rome, historical persons, pope

Prent uit: Effigies Romanorum pontificum a S. Petro ad Pium VI. feliciter regnantem (...). 2 dln. Venetië en Bassano del Grappa: Giuseppe Remondini, 1775.
Lothaire
Object type: print
Date: 1812 – 1869
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: historical persons, king
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret is hetzelfde als op RP-P-1910-2556.
Figurata Meditatio Microcosmi
Object type: print
Date: 1629 – 1629
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: the hague
Subjects: christian doctrine, microcosmos ~ macrocosmos
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Allegorische weergave van de natuur en de menselijke natuur (microcosmos). Schematische voorstelling met een fontein van de natuur en vier fonteinen van de mens.
Coffee or chocolate pot
Object type: coffee or chocolate pot
Date: 1740 – 1745
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: meissen manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 – 9999
Subjects: human figures,boats
Nose ornament
Object type: nose ornament
Date: 1201 – 1600
Materials: gold
Culture: colombian
Location: colombia
Galerie berühmter Ärzte
Object type: print
Date: 1910 – 1915
Materials: paper
Techniques: blind stamped, lithograph
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: advertising, physician, doctor

Kaart met portretbuste van de arts Leopold Auenbrugger. Onderdeel van de serie kaarten in reliëfdruk uitgebracht als reclame voor de medische producten van Tropon-Werke, Mülheim am Rhein.
Opwekking van Lazarus
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1670 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: the raising of lazarus ('lazarus, come out')
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst in het Duits in de ondermarge. Linksonder genummerd: 16. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
One of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto)
Object type: pagoda
Date: 764 – 770
Materials: wood, ink, paper
Culture: japanese

This miniature wooden pagoda (tŏ) is one of one million (hyakuman) commissioned by the Empress Shŏtoku (718–770) and distributed to Japan’s ten major temples. It originally was created to commemorate and offer thanks to Buddhist deities for their help in suppressing the Emi Rebellion in 764. This example belonged to the temple Hŏryǔji in Nara, where three thousand of the one million pagodas were given away in 1908 to those contributing to an appeal for funds. Each pagoda was painted white and contained a printed Buddhist text called a darani (Sanskrit: dharani), or invocation. The text displayed here came from the pagoda on known as the Jishin’in darani, the invocation is one of four from the sacred text Mukujŏkŏkyŏ (Sanskrit: Vimala Mirbhasa Sutra) found in the pagodas. These printed texts are among the oldest known in the world. They are likely to have been printed from bronze plates, but some scholars maintain that they were printed from woodblocks.
An Extensive Wooded Landscape
Object type: painting
Date: 1670 – 1679
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: philips koninck
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1619 – 1688
Subjects: landscapes,clouds
Plaque with the Throne Name of Thutmose IV
Object type: plaque, thutmose iv
Date: 1400 – 1390
Materials: glass
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs
Covered Seal-Ink Box
Object type: box
Date: 1601 – 1800
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Culture: chinese
Cuneiform tablet: Utukku lemnutu, tablet 12
Object type: cuneiform tablet
Date: 333 – 1
Materials: clay
Location: mesopotamia

The invention of writing in approximately 3300 B.C. was one of many developments in administrative technology--including the use of geometric tokens for counting and cylinder seals to guarantee transactions--that accompanied the growth of the first cities and states in southern Mesopotamia. Proto-cuneiform is the name given to the earliest form of writing--pictograms that were drawn on clay tablets. Gradually, the pictograms became abstracted into cuneiform (Latin, "wedge-shaped") signs that were impressed rather than drawn. At its greatest extent, cuneiform writing was used from the Mediterranean coast of Syria to western Iran and from Hittite Anatolia to southern Mesopotamia. It was adapted to write at least fifteen different languages. The last dated cuneiform text has a date corresponding to A.D. 75, although the script probably continued in use over the next two centuries. In later periods especially, scribes produced long, multi-tablet series of writings. One series, known as Utukku lemnuti, records incantations to aid in and prevent against attack by demons and ghosts. Some incantations derive from texts dating back to the third millennium B.C., when such texts were first composed, and were transmitted over the centuries as part of the lore of the magician (Akkadian ashipu). This clay tablet is the twelfth in the series. The text, which reads from left to right, deals with the demonic disruption of nature and agriculture and describes a scapegoat ritual in which a goat is used to carry off the evil that afflicts a patient. Several tablets of the series Utukku lemnuti are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of art, including tablets 3 (86.11.468 + 86.11.379a, c-f) and 16 (86.11.382a, b + 86.11.382c), as well as several other copies of tablet 12 (86.11.366 + 86.11.542; 86.11.379b + 86.11.534).
Gezicht op een baai, vermoedelijk Menton of vanaf Menton
Object type: blad
Date: 1872 – 1874
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: eugène degand
Artist role: painter
Artist dates: 1829 – 1911
Subjects: gulf, bay, mountains, france
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Menton vue du pont St. Louis’, inscription: ‘E. Degand Vues&Portraits 6, Rue Paradis Nice’
Plum Tree and Waterfowl
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1501 – 1533
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: kano masanobu 狩野正信
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1434 – 1530

A pair of water birds glide beneath the fragile branches of a plum tree in this work bearing the seals of Kano Masanobu, founder of the Kano school of painting, which dominated mainstream Japanese painting for four centuries. The plum tree’s delicate white blossoms and a tangle of drying reeds in the lower left corner are indicative of late winter. As with many other early Kano-school paintings in the bird-and-flower genre, each of the motifs is drawn with black ink outlines, while ink washes and accents are used to suggest the texture of the tree’s bark, to which malachite green lichens cling. The birds’ downy bodies are described with a meticulous application of shell white (gofun), the same pigment used for the petals of the plum blossoms.
Birds and Flowers
Object type: screen
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ink, panel, paper
Culture: korean
Artist: unidentified artist
Artist role: artist
Portret van Carl Gottfried Schrader
Object type: print
Date: 1726 – 1752
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: berlin, historical persons, physician, doctor (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), symbols of the trinity ~ circular and/or triangular forms or arrangements
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Ivory disk of a pyxis
Object type: roundel, disk
Date: 1300 – 1101
Materials: ivory
Culture: cypriot
Bassin du Commerce
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1870 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: toulon
Artist: étienne neurdein
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1832 – 1918
Subjects: harbour, toulon
Inscriptions: initials: ‘N.D.’
Rembrantii Effigies
Object type: print
Date: 1799 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: leiden, amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, rembrandt van rijn, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Naar geschilderd zelfportret door Rembrandt in het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (inv. nr. SK-A-4050).
Brief aan August Allebé
Object type: letter
Date: 1888 – 1888
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jérôme alexander sillem
Artist role: politician
Artist dates: 1840 – 1912
Subjects: august allebé, haarlem, painter, print maker, draughtsman, jac van looij, veghel, paul rink, den helder, amsterdam, jan dunselman, education, tuition of the artist (in general)
Sapping in full swing, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome
Object type: print
Date: 1858 – 1858
Materials: chine, paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: denis auguste marie raffet
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1804 – 1860
Centerpiece and Stand with Pair of Sugar Casters
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1737 – 1737
Materials: ceramic, enamel, gilt bronze, hard paste porcelain, porcelain
Techniques: gilding, polychrome
Location: meissen
Artist: meissen porcelain manufactory

Typifying the splendor of the Saxon court at Dresden during the eighteenth century, this porcelain centerpiece would have been part of an elaborate dinner service that graced ceremonial court banquet tables. Remarkable for its large size and luxurious decoration, the service was designed for Count Heinrich von Brühl, who was both administrator of the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory at Meissen and prime minister to Augustus III (r. 1733–63), elector of Saxony and king of Poland. The centerpiece consists of a large, flat plateau made in sections fitted together to support a tall, four-legged, open basket decorated with fanciful roosters and Chinese figures. At either end of the plateau are sugar casters in the form of Chinese figures embracing under a canopy. Established in 1710, the Meissen factory dominated porcelain production in Europe until the mid-eighteenth century and continues to operate to this day.