deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Deuxiéme Plan du Poids de Gouda
Object type: area plan
Date: 1715 – 1715
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leiden
Subjects: plan ~ architecture, weigh-house

Prent uit: Les Ouvrages d'Architecture ordonnez par Pierre Post (...). Leiden: Pieter van der Aa, 1705.
Veelderleij Veranderinghe van grotissen ende Compertimenten (...)Libro Primo
Object type: titelprent, frontispice
Date: 1556 – 1556
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament, foliage, tendrils, branches ~ ornament
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Cornelis floris Inve[n]tor’, date: ‘1556’, address: ‘ghedruckt bij Hieronimus Cock’

Cartouche in omlijsting van rolwerk met kindertjes, vruchtenguirlandes en vier mannen. Titel in cartouche: ghedruckt bij Hieronymus Cock, 1556. Blad A afkomstig uit serie van 12 bladen, genummerd A-M.
Bowl
Object type: decorative art
Date: 1700 – 1775
Materials: wood
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1700 – 1799
Gezicht op de Lagune van Venetië voor Murano
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1902
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint
Artist: carel nicolaas storm van s-gravesande
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1841 – 1924
Subjects: haff, lagoon created by sand, shingle bank ~ coast, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘B à [...] 25 proofs’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, number: ‘286’

Mogelijk vermeld in: Storm van 's-Gravesande, Charles. Catalogue des eaux-fortes et lithographies. New York: s.n., 1903, of in een onbekende latere uitgave van het manuscript. Vermoedelijk vermeld als catalogusnummer 286.
Scarab
Object type: scarab, uninscribed
Date: 1900 – 1850
Location: egypt
Subjects: scarabs
Mr. Bullock's Exhibition of Laplanders
Object type: print
Techniques: aquatint, etching, hand coloring
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: animals,men,women,spectators

Exhibition held at the Egyptian Hall, 22 Piccadilly including a herd of reindeer, a group of Laplanders and ogling spectators.
Plattegrond van een bouwwerk
Object type: print
Date: 1836 – 1912
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: isaac weissenbruch
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1826 – 1912
Subjects: plan ~ architecture, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings
Homer Dictating
Object type: painting
Date: 1660 – 1665
Materials: canvas, oil, paint
Techniques: painting
Location: italy
Artist: pier francesco mola
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1612 – 1666
Subjects: man, reading, philosophers, historical figures, children, boys, book, bearded man
Pavillon Daru in het Palais du Louvre
Object type: photograph
Date: 1857 – 1857
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: paris
Artist: édouard denis baldus
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1813 – 1889
Subjects: gate, entrance, permanent exhibition, museum, façade (of house or building), paris, tuileries palace

Onderdeel van Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre 1852-1857, album 2.
Portret van Paul Henri Marron
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: leiden, paris, paul henri marron, the bible as a book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt in: Fokke, Jan. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden voor de vaderlandsche jeugd Ie-XXVste deel. Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1783-1795. Deel XXI.
Beleg van Maastricht, 1632 (plaat 6)
Object type: map
Date: 1633 – 1633
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: delft, frederick henry (prince of orange), fortifications, military engineering, maps of cities, maastricht
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Veldslagen 519a’

Kaart van het beleg en de inname van Maastricht door het Staatse leger onder stadhouder Frederik Hendrik, 9 juni tot 21 augustus 1632. Kaart samengesteld uit zes bladen, drie links en drie rechts. Dit is het blad rechtsonder. Blad met de plattegronden van Straelen, Orsoy verschillende forten, de verovering van de Kauwensteinse dijk bij Antwerpen en de doorsnede van een ravelijn of schans.
Montreux et la Dent du Midi
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1870 – 1889
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: interlaken
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', mountains
Inscriptions: name: ‘Lith. E. d. Hofmann. Thun (Schweiz)’
Dirk Hals. Vornehme Gesellschaft
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: vienna
Subjects: recreation, amusement, interior ~ representation of a building
Neptune
Object type: statuette
Date: 1601 – 1633
Materials: bronze
Subjects: neptune,dolphins
Suzanna met de ouden
Object type: plaque
Date: 1612 – 1612
Materials: lead
Techniques: casting
Location: prague
Artist: paulus willemsz. van vianen
Artist role: draughtsman, jeweler
Artist dates: 1570 – 1614
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘PV’, date: ‘1612’

Ronde, loden plaquette. Links op de voorgrond een der ouden, driekwart van achteren gezien; rechts achter een boomstronk de tweede in profiel, zich vooroverbuigende naar Suzanna, die op het middenplan, in smekende houding, met een kleine draperie over de linkerdij, naar achteren leunt. Rotsen en bomen op de achtergrond.
Card Number 701, Miss Ada Webb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-3), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the third subset, N145-3. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Twee onbekende vrouwen in een auto
Object type: photograph
Date: 1920 – 1935
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman, automobile
Porringer
Object type: porringer
Date: 1725 – 1735
Materials: silver
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: samuel vernon
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1683 – 1737
Portret van Frederik Willem IV als kroonprins van Pruisen
Object type: print
Date: 1816 – 1816
Materials: paper
Techniques: stippling
Location: berlin
Artist: johann friedrich bolt
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1769 – 1836
Subjects: berlin, frederik willem iv (koning van pruisen), historical persons, (military) uniforms, crown prince
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘g. 1795/ koning 7 Juny 1840’, inscription: ‘overl. 2 Jan. 1861./ Zie wat er, Heraut, 31 July 1863/ over zijnen Godsdienstige Zin uit/ zijne dagelijkse opteekeningen vermeld is.’
Fotoalbum (leeg)
Object type: slip in album
Date: 1860 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, metal, paper, textile
Techniques: color on snow, four-color autotype
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘RB’, collector's mark: ‘DIENST/ VERSPREIDE/ RIJKSKOLLEKTIES/ (...) A 887’

Fotoalbum met acht bladen met op ieder blad een passe-partout voor een kabinetfoto. De passe-partouts zijn omkaderd door decoraties van bloemen in vierkleurenautotypie, waarop het monogram RB is vermeld.
Donner Lake, from the Summit, from the series "California"
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1865
Techniques: albumen print
Location: united states
Artist: lawrence & houseworth
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1860 – 1869
Vrede van de Pyreneen, ter ere van kardinaal Mazarin
Object type: honorary medal
Date: 1660 – 1660
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: paris
Artist: jean warin (ii)
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1596 – 1672
Subjects: france, spain

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: scheepsanker binnen omschrift.
Glass Model of a 76-Gun Ship of the Line
Object type: show model
Date: 1770 – 1820
Materials: glass, gold leaf, silver, wood
Techniques: glassblowing

Volmodel van een linieschip, driemaster, met 76 stukken tot op de waterlijn. De drie masten en de boegspriet bestaan uit dikke gedraaide glazen draad. Het schip is verder opgebouwd uit enkele en zonodig meerdere dunnen glazen draden naast elkaar. De draden zijn zwart of kleurloos en bijna allemaal gedraaid. Aan boord negen figuren in verschillende gekleurde kleding, en een hond. Als boegbeeld een mannenfiguur met steekwapen in de rechterhand. Aan beide zijden van het schip een sloep. Het model staat in houten kast. De zee is weergegeven met glasschilfers.
Two beakers with the ‘Hol’ (Hollow) pattern
Object type: vase
Date: 1923 – 1923
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: painted
Location: arnhem
Inscriptions: mark: ‘fabrieksstempel in cirkelvorm, 124/AP/"Hol" (in zwart)’

Vaas, bekervormig, met decor "Hol" in zwart en geel. Gemerkt met fabrieksstempel in cirkelvorm, 124/AP/"Hol" (in zwart)
Zeven kogels uit het wrak van de Oostindiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: bullet ammunition
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: iron
Artist: Anonymous

Kogels, waarvan vier ernstig gecorrodeerd.
Lamp
Object type: lamp
Date: 1818 – 1825
Materials: glass, tin
Techniques: glassblowing, molding
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: new england glass company
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1818 – 1888
Blad met ranken met bloemen
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1700 – 1850
Materials: gold leaf, paper
Techniques: relief print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament derived from plant forms

Blad met ranken met bloemen. Links en rechts van de rug identieke helften. Gebruik als omslag.
Boerenjongen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1854 – 1914
Materials: charcoal, paper
Artist: albert neuhuys (1844-1914)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1844 – 1914
Subjects: boy (child between toddler and youth), wooden shoes, clogs, farmers, agricultural implements

De jongen houdt een landbouwwerktuig vast. Blad 41 verso uit een schetsboek met 53 bladen.
Arrowheads, needles, hooks and harpoons
Object type: arrowhead, needle, hook and harpoon
Date: 1200 – 200
Materials: bone
Culture: japanese

These implements—an arrowhead, fishhooks, needle, and harpoon—were skillfully carved from bone, a material worked by Japanese artisans since Paleolithic times. They were found in the Obara Shell Mound at Ofunato Bay in Iwate Prefecture. According to information gleaned from shell mounds, or middens, the people of the Jōmon period relied on a variety of strategies to obtain food. The large number of fishhooks, fashioned with and without barbs, together with the rich array of marine remains found in these rubbish heaps since very early times indicate that some fifty species of fish and shellfish constituted an essential dietary staple. Toggle-head harpoons, a later innovation, facilitated the hunting of sea mammals. Attaching a line to the toggle allowed the hunter to draw in his prey once the toggle had broken away from the harpoon shaft. Further evidence gathered from these refuse dumps suggests that the Jōmon people also relied heavily on nuts, collected most actively in the autumn, and hunted animals, notably wild boar and deer. (1975.268.333–345)
Design for a Cartouche on a Base, Surmounted by a Crown, with Arms with the Initials OL, G, G, and OI
Object type: drawing
Date: 1700 – 1780
Materials: graphite, ink, drawing material
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, italian, piedmontese, 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1700 – 1800
Subjects: diadems,cartouches,coat of arms
Bracelet (Kada)
Object type: bracelet
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: gold
Location: central india

Bracelets decorated with confronting animal heads are known from various cultures since antiquity. In India, the terminals of bracelets or anklets are commonly ornamented with makara heads. The makara is a mythic water monster which combines the features of a crocodile, elephant, and fish and is believed to be a protective form. This ornament was formerly in the collection of American artist and designer Lockwood de Forest (1850–1932) who purchased many jeweled objects while traveling in India between 1879–1881. Today, his collection of Indian jewelry in the Met serves as a near-comprehensive assemblage of late nineteenth century bodily adornment.
Ils ont percé mes mains et mes pieds
Object type: print
Date: 1784 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: soldiers casting lots for or quarrelling over christ's seamless garment, the erection of the cross: christ is nailed to the cross which lies on the ground, mountain-range, snow peaks
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 4404

De serie is deel twee van de vier-delige publicatie 'Oeuvre de Jean Holbein', Bazel 1780-1795, door Christian von Mechel.
Christ crucified between the two thieves: an oval plate
Object type: print
Date: 1641 – 1641
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Subjects: the crucifixion of christ: christ's death on the cross; golgotha (matthew 27:45-58; mark 15:33-45; luke 23:44-52; john 19:25-38)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Remy 1745’ Lugt 2173, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 439

Rembrandt depicted Christ on the Cross at different moments throughout his career. In the upper etching, the earliest of these two, he omitted the thieves who were crucified along with Christ. The Saviour looks at his mother, who returns his gaze and collapses. In the later print, Rembrandt did include the thieves, one of whom turns his attention to Christ.
Bather in the Woods
Object type: painting
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: camille pissarro
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1830 – 1903
Subjects: female nudes,bathing

In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude peasant women bathing, even though he foresaw difficulties in engaging models in rural Eragny. None were completed until 1894, and Pissarro continued to paint variations on the theme through 1896. This picture falls midway in the project. Pissarro’s approach reflects the continuing influence of divisionist technique, but more naturalistic tendencies emerge in his attempts to capture the delicate fall of light over the grassy bank and the woman's back. Her pose recurs in two studies of a clothed model painted the same year.
Plate 36 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Not [in this case] either' (Tampoco)
Object type: print
Date: 1810 – 1810
Techniques: aquatint, engraving, burnishing, drypoint, etching
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: men,death,punishment
Portret van Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein
Object type: print
Date: 1764 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: peter haas
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1754 – 1804
Subjects: ornament ~ medallion, commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons, ornament ~ festoon, garland
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Pierced Screen with Letters against a Vegetal Pattern (and Additional Fragments of a Screen)
Object type: screen fragment
Date: 1101 – 1200
Materials: stonepaste
Techniques: glazing, painting
Location: iran
Leeuwarden. Hofplein met "Us Heit"
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1914 – 1914
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: leeuwarden
Subjects: willem lodewijk graaf van nassau-dillenburg, square, place, circus, etc., monument, statue, parts of church exterior and annexes: tower
Inscriptions: date
Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)
Object type: skyphos fragment
Date: 460 – 450
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Nose, mouth, chin, and shoulder of a figure to right
Standing Male Nude (recto); Two Half Length Male Figures, One with Raised Arm, the Other Praying (verso)
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: italy
Artist: probably domenico fiasella
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1589 – 1669
Ewer stand with classicizing head
Object type: ewer stand
Date: 1520 – 1550
Techniques: maiolica, glazing
Subjects: heads,men,profiles
Konijnenhok
Object type: print
Date: 1866 – 1918
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: wally moes
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1856 – 1918
Subjects: rodents: rabbit
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In het hok zit een konijn; naast het hok liggen planken.
Illuminatie voor het Oost-Indiesche huis te Amsteldam op het Vrede-Feest 2 Junij 1802
Object type: print
Date: 1802 – 1803
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bonfire, fire-works (+ illumination, fire-works ~ festive activities)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illuminatie opgericht voor het Oost-Indisch Huis te Amsterdam, bij de feestelijke viering van de Vrede van Amiens op 2 juni 1802. Bij de prent behoort een tekstblad. Afzonderlijke afdruk uit de Nederlandsche Mercurius van 1802.
Envelop aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: envelope
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: satigny
Artist: alphonse stengelin
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1852 – 1938
Subjects: the hague, painter, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Cartouche met putto
Object type: print
Date: 1745 – 1745
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: ornament ~ cartouche, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een putto kruipt onder een rocaille cartouche in een landschap. Prentnummer 244.
Staande lamp en ontwerpen voor lampenvoeten
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: lighting; lamps
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘kamer/ beyer’

Blad 12 recto uit een schetsboek met 25 bladen.
Ex libris van Jean Baptiste Verdussen
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1669 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: birds, animals (+ feeding and care of young)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233, collector's mark: Lugt 2760
Joden-Savane
Object type: topographical view
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: suriname
Artist: jacob marius adriaan martini van geffen
Artist dates: 1821 – 1866
Subjects: jodensavanne, boven-suriname
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘.’, signature and date: ‘gedateerd recto r.o.: 1850’
Kropsla en bloemmotieven
Object type: drawing
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: theo colenbrander
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1841 – 1930
Subjects: flowers, vegetables (with name)
Inscriptions: date: ‘begonnen 22 Aug 17 gereed 8 Oct 18’
Uitgebrand huis op de Herengracht, 1683
Object type: print
Date: 1735 – 1735
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: jan van der heyden
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1637 – 1712
Subjects: urban housing, on fire, ablaze, ruin of a building ~ architecture, canals, waters (in city)
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp

Een huis op de Herengracht te Amsterdam waar in de nacht van 25 op 26 april 1683 brand heeft gewoed, maar dat door tijdig blussen met slangbrandspuiten behouden is gebleven. Links ligt de brug voor de Hartenstraat. Met vierregelig onderschrift in het Nederlands en Frans. Bovenaan de tekst: 14de Figuur Pag: 32. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Regeering, Brandwezen.
Portret van een zittende man
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: hoorn
Subjects: sitting figure, historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photographisch Atelier/ F.D. VAN ROSMALEN & Co./ aan het groote Oost/ en/ in de Nieuwe steeg/ te/ HOORN.’
Reguliers Toren
Object type: drawing
Date: 1650 – 1749
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bridge in city across river, canal, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), tower, clock tower ~ monumental adornment, canals, waters (in city) (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gezicht op de Munttoren, tot 1672 alleen bekend als de Regulierstoren, te Amsterdam. Gezien vanaf de Singel. Rechts van de toren de Muntsluis.
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Object type: sword guard tsuba
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: copper, gold, iron, lacquer, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: birds
Figuurstudies
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1875 – 1934
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934
Subjects: the (nude) human figure; 'corpo humano' (ripa), the (nude) human figure; 'corpo humano' (ripa) - aa - female human figure

Blad 30 verso uit schetsboek LII met 43 bladen.
Terracotta fragment of a pot; glazed on the inside
Object type: pot fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of the upper arm of a figure?
Mary, Queen of Scots
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1833
Techniques: engraving
Location: scotland
Artist: a. fullerton & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: british
Subjects: queens,portraits,women,mary queen of scots
Scherven van een bord uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'
Object type: plate dish
Date: 1613 – 1613
Materials: bone china
Location: jingdezhen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, sint-helena

A saucer with a flattened rim. A saucer with a flattened rim. A central decoration of a waterfowl and a lotus. Panels decorated with flowers. N.B. This piece has no moulded relief.
Theepot met een zwart geïriseerd glazuur (De Caluwe bakafval)
Object type: fragment
Date: 1700 – 1725
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: firing, vitrification
Location: delft
Artist: jacobus de caluwe
Artist role: plateelbakkerij
Artist dates:  – 1730

Toegeschreven aan Jacobus de Caluwe, omdat dit voorwerp samen met gemerkte stukken (‘Jacobus De Caluwe’ en rennend hert) gevonden is op de plaats waar zich De Caluwes tweede werkplaats bevond. Er is een duidelijke stilistische overeenkomst tussen de gemerkte en niet gemerkte voorwerpen uit deze archeologische vondst.
Ghanta
Object type: ghanta
Date: 900 – 1600
Materials: bronze
Location: east java
Artist: Anonymous

Priest's bell. Crowned with a vajra. Indonesia, East Java. 13th - 15th century. Bronze. Priest's bells of the East Java period are simpler than those of the Central Java period. The tips of the vajra point out; in the Central Java period, they turn inward.
Snaffle Bit
Object type: bit
Date: 1567 – 1700
Materials: metal alloy
Culture: german
Location: germany

This type of mouthpiece corresponds to the contemporary Waterford bit. It was used for horses that lean on the bit too much. The many mobile links in the mouthpiece prevent the horse from taking hold of it, but it was comfortable and fairly gentle in the mouth, not severe when in the hands of a good rider. The snaffle bit is the simplest type of horse bit, and has an effect on the bars (part of the horses’ jaw without teeth) and the corners of the lips. The rings on the sides would serve to hang the bit on the headstall and attach the reins. The cheekpieces press on the side of the mouth when a rein is pulled, helping indicate the intended direction to the horse and keeping the rings from pulling through the horse's mouth. According to contemporary equestrian manuals, this bit was probably used as a racing bit. It is virtually identical to some bits still used today.