deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Groepsportret, mogelijk van eerstejaars van het Delftsch Studenten Corps
Object type: photograph
Date: 1914 – 1914
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: delft
Artist: j.c.c. witte
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: rowing facing backward, pulling
Inscriptions: address: ‘J.C.C. Witte. -Corpsfotograaf. Coenderstraat 34, Delft. Tel. 240.’, inscription: ‘Groenkiek 1914.’
Twee koks met dampende schalen vlees
Object type: design
Date: 1884 – 1952
Materials: cardboard, ink, fiber, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: reinier willem petrus de vries (1874-1953)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1874 – 1953
Subjects: cook, meat; still life of meat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘R:MVS.’

Mogelijk een ontwerp voor een reclamebord. Het bord kan worden opgehangen aan de twee lussen die aan de bovenkant aan het karton zijn bevestigd.
November
Object type: design
Date: 1590 – 1610
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: joos de momper (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1564 – 1635
Subjects: november and its 'labours', driving pigs to the wood to eat acorns, fruits: acorn

De maand november. Man met stok om eikels uit de boom te slaan, links een kudde vakens en een zwijnenhoeder. Ontwerp voor een prent.
14de-eeuws harnas uit het leger van Jan II van Frankrijk, uit de collectie van het Musée d'Artillerie in Parijs
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1877 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: armour
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘PHOTOGLYPTIE/ LEMERCIER ET Cie/ PARIS’

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een omslag met 36 prenten, een titelblad en een lijst van afbeeldingen.
God omringd en gedragen door engelen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1681 – 1681
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: god the father, angels in adoration, (decorated) ceiling

Centrale van vijf prenten die samen het plafond van de kapel van Sceaux vormen. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Statuette of a diskos-thrower
Object type: statuette of a diskos thrower
Date: 7000 – 330
Materials: bronze
Subjects: men
Bas-reliëfs van een maenade, Flora en Ganymedes met de adelaar
Object type: page
Date: 1868 – 1873
Materials: paper
Techniques: carbon print
Artist: joseph cundall
Artist role: fotograaf, schrijver
Artist dates: 1818 – 1895
Subjects: maenad(s), female bacchant(es), (story of) flora, attributes of jupiter, sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)
Albarello
Object type: albarello
Date: 1551 – 1600
Techniques: maiolica, glazing
Subjects: men,flowers

Storage vessels were among the most frequently produced maiolica wares in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Made in fairly standard shapes, they were designed to fit with dozens of others on a shelf, often in a pharmacy or shop. Their handles therefore tend to fit within the vessel’s profile, and the cylindrical albarello type is generally narrower at the middle than at the top or bottom, making it easy to grip. Other common features include inscriptions indicating contents and flanged lips to help secure cloth or paper seals. The decoration, usually more elaborate on one side than the other, can sometimes link pieces to a known dispensary or specific workshop or artist.
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: silk
Techniques: compound weave
Culture: chinese
Maria het Christuskind voedend
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: madonna: i.e. mary with the christ-child, christ-child suckling, or beginning to suckle, e.g. mary uncovering her breast ~ madonna-representations, 'madonna dell'umiltà' (usually mary suckling the christ-child while sitting on the ground)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Maria zit met het Christuskind op schoot en geeft hem de borst.
Lobster Pots - Selsea Bill
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1881
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: united states
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Inscriptions: Signed with butterfly and inscribed "Selsea Bill - " in plate, lower right; signed with butterfly and "imp" in graphite on tab, lower left
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: hendrik willem mesdag
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1831 – 1915
Subjects: sientje mesdag-van houten, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Voorstelling der ontvlugting van den zeer beroemden Hugo Grotius of Hugo de Groot (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1820 – 1838
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: rotterdam
Subjects: delft, hugo de groot, escape, escape attempts, loevestein castle
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 8 voorstellingen over de ontsnapping van Hugo de Groot uit Slot Loevestein. Onder elke afbeelding een vierregelig vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 11.
Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Domed Interior (recto); Sketches for Dome and Doors (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1830 – 1890
Materials: graphite
Artist: eugène cicéri
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1813 – 1890
Subjects: stage design
Ornament
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: gerrit willem dijsselhof
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1924
Subjects: ornaments ~ art

Blad 26 recto uit een schetsboek met 42 bladzijden.
Soldaat en profil
Object type: print
Date: 1924 – 1924
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: groningen
Artist: marius holleman
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1878 – 1926
Subjects: uniform cap
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Four Models of Main Skysail Yards
Object type: demonstration model
Date: 1850 – 1850
Materials: wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription, on the two longer yards: ‘O’, inscription, on the two smaller yards: ‘N’

Deze modellen stellen de scheizeilra's van de Piet Hein voor, in 1833 als linieschip op stapel gezet, uiteengenomen en in 1853-1856 als eerste Nederlands schroefstoomfregat afgebouwd door A.E. Tromp in Amsterdam, lang 59.62 m, herdoopt de Admiraal van Wassenaer. Samen met een aantal andere modellen van rondhouten kan de gehele grote mast gevormd worden.
Recueil de divers griffonnements & preuves d'eau forte
Object type: print
Date: 1620 – 1657
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: head (human) (+ sideview, profile), human types
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Vier hoofden naar links gewend en één hoofd naar rechts gewend.
Wulp (Numenius arquata)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1596 – 1610
Materials: chalk, paint, ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Subjects: shore-birds and wading-birds: curlew

Wulp. Genummerd rechtsboven: 19. Linksboven de naam in verschillende talen. Onderdeel van het derde album met tekeningen van vogels. Vijfde van twaalf albums met tekeningen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend rond 1600, gemaakt in opdracht van keizer Rudolf II. Met toelichting in Nederlands, Latijn en Frans.
The Elements of Skating: Making the Most of a Passing Friend
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: england
Artist: james gillray
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1756 – 1815
Sprinkler Bottle with Fesse Emblem
Object type: bottle
Date: 1267 – 1333
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing, enamel, gilding
Location: egypt

Suspended from their handles, miniature perfume sprinklers were worn around the neck or tied to a belt. On this example, the Arabic inscription band praises an unspecified sultan. The fesse emblem, a simple band across the shield, was adopted by Sultan Lajin (r. 1297–99) and several amirs in the late thirteenth century.
Mortar and Pestle
Object type: mortar and pestle
Date: 1739 – 1780
Techniques: glassblowing
Culture: american
Location: mid-atlantic
Enthroned Vishnu
Object type: statue
Culture: indian
Subjects: vishnu,hinduism

This monumental sculpture — the largest in the Museum’s South Asian collection — is a rare example of the art of the Pandya dynasty, which, along with the Pallava dynasty, initiated the first great phase of temple building in South India. Vishnu sits on a lion throne in the relaxed, regal posture of lalitasana. His role in Hinduism is to restore order to the human world and to combat evils that threaten the stability of the universe. He originally held a conch (used as a battle trumpet) in his upper left hand and a war discus in his upper right, and his lower right hand was raised in abhaya-mudra.
Klederdracht vrouw van Hindeloopen
Object type: print
Date: 1790 – 1792
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, hand coloring
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: folk costume, regional costume
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Klederdracht van een vrouw uit Hindeloopen. Plaat II in een reeks van vier illustraties van klederdrachten in Nederland in 1792.
Frog
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: wood
Culture: japanese
Subjects: frogs
Cuneiform tablet: fragment, Ebabbar archive
Object type: cuneiform tablet
Date: 580 – 580
Materials: clay
Culture: babylonian
Location: mesopotamia
Landschap rond Napels
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, naples
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Landschap rond Napels. Vier mannen vissen met een groot net in de beek. In de ondermarge de titel in het Frans.
Garda. Le baie
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: salò
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, lake, mountains
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Object type: photograph
Date: 1866 – 1866
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: ridgway glover
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1831 – 1866
Design for a Pediment with de Coq d’Or on an Armorial Trophy
Object type: drawing
Date: 1834 – 1866
Materials: graphite, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: jean-baptiste louis plantar
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Vader houdt hand vast van zijn dochter
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1853 – 1853
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, old man, father and daughter(s) (family group) (with number of daughters)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Prent gebruikt voor: Paris (Journal), juni 1853.
Head jar
Object type: jar
Date: 100 – 500
Materials: ceramic
Culture: nasca
Location: peru
Artist: nasca artist(s)
Artist role: artist
Subjects: heads
Etienne Jeuarat
Object type: print
Date: 1775 – 1775
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: france
Subjects: paris, draughtsman, etienne jeaurat, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of painter, painter at work, in his studio
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Terracotta hydria (water jar)
Object type: hydria
Date: 400 – 301
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

This extraordinarily beautiful vase is decorated at the neck with a wreath of vine tendrils and gilded leaves. There is gilding as well on the lip and on the delicate ornament at the handles. During the fourth century B.C., the taste for vases with anthropomorphic embellishment such as a necklace extended from Southern Italy to the Black Sea area.
Oberer Anlagen-See, Stuttgart
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1885 – 1905
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: stuttgart
Subjects: castle, lake, monument, statue
De ouderlingen om beurten voor Daniël geleid
Object type: drawing
Date: 1600 – 1699
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: daniel interrogates the elders separately
Snuff box in book form, inscribed "J. B. F."
Location: europe
Pot, blauw-wit
Object type: pot
Date: 1600 – 1650
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: maiolica
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Pot, blauw-wit, deel van een partij Noord-Nederlandsche majolica en ander aardewerk, gevonden bij het graafwerk voor de uitbreiding van het Scheepvaarthuis op het Waelseiland.
Studioportret van een onbekende jongeman
Object type: photograph
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: leeds
Artist: owen brooks
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1863 – 1947
Subjects: youth, adolescent
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Leeds 15e april 1908.’, inscription: ‘Tel. 02955 Owen Brooks 83. Dewsbury Rd. Leeds.’

Dezelfde man is geportretteerd op RP-F-F20789 en RP-F-F20790.
Gezicht op Coniston Water
Object type: photograph
Date: 1857 – 1867
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: lake district
Subjects: lake
Shore Seat for Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (elevation and plan)
Object type: drawing ornament architecture
Date: 1870 – 1879
Materials: ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: alexander jackson davis
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1803 – 1892
Subjects: architecture
Rivierlandschap met een dode die beroofd wordt
Object type: print
Date: 1603 – 1641
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: jan van de velde (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1593 – 1641
Subjects: smoke-stack, river, robber, the corpse
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een dode op de oever van een rivier wordt beroofd. Op de rivier een zeilschip en aan de horizon een rookpluim. Tweede prent uit een serie van zes.
Card Number 8, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: profiles,women

Series G29 presents cut-outs from a tobacco advertising banner issued by Allen & Ginter between 1885 and 1890. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Banners are paper hangers with a metal binding at top and bottom edges. The popular size was about 30 inches long but a few measured over five feet in length...The tobacco firms were prolific advertisers using a constant procession of banners, especially to publicize their current insert card sets...The usual design illustrates the card pictures [from the series inserted into tobacco packaging] with a large appropriate center picture." Many consumers would cut up banners in order to "collect" the whole series of cards at once. Although series G29 is not listed in Burdick's "The American Card Catalog," he included notes in his own edition of the book, now included in the collection at the Metropolitan Museum, labeling the series as G29. They are included not as the original banner, but as cut-outs affixed to an album. Each card in the series is numbered and depicts a leather opera glove holding a portrait of a woman. The original banner advertised Richmond Straight Cut Number 1 Cigarettes issued by Allen & Ginter as a branch of the American Tobacco Company. In 1890, the American Tobacco Company purchased Allen & Ginter, as well as many of the large American cigarette manufacturers.
Man en een kind op een bospad in Frankrijk
Object type: photograph
Date: 1808 – 1883
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: forest path or lane, france

Onderdeel van Album van een Franse amateurfotograaf met opnames van familie, militairen, industrie, landschappen en bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk.
Daisy Murdoch, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N245), issued in 1890 by Kinney Brothers Tobacco to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Gezicht op de Doopsgezinde Kerk van de Jan Jacobsgezinden in de Bloemstraat te Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1752 – 1789
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: protestant churches and denominations (mennonites), church (exterior), street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kerkwezen: Gebouwen diverse gemeenten: Doopsgezinde Gemeente / Gebouwen, vroegere kerken (Arke Noachs / Jan Jacobsgezinden / De Toren / De Zon).
Essempio di recammi, page 17 (recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1530 – 1530
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: giovanni antonio tagliente
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1465 – 1528
Subjects: ornament

Written by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, Italian, Venice ca. 1465-1527 Venice, published by Giovanantonio e i fratelli da Sabbio Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design covers a full-page and has a black background. The largest element of the design is a cross surrounded on the left by 2 'i's and on the left right by an 'i' and a 's'. These various elements are decorated with 3 horizontal registers of interlace patterns.
Exterieur van het operagebouw van Wiesbaden
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1880 – 1895
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: façade (of house or building), opera house
Inscriptions: number: ‘3810’

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum met opnames van bezienswaardigheden in België, Duitsland en Noorwegen.
Jug with flower vases
Object type: jug
Date: 1680 – 1720
Materials: cobalt, glaze, stoneware, tin
Techniques: firing, forming, relief, turning, vitrification
Location: westerwald
Artist: Anonymous

Kruik van steengoed op standring met een bolvormige buik en een wijde, korte nek. Het C-vormige oor is bevestigd aan de nek en de buik. Enkele profielen en ingegrifte lijnen op de voet en de nek. Gedeeltelijk bedekt met kobaltblauw. Op de buik een reliëfdecoratie van drie rijen met kleine gedrukte en opgelegde medaillons met een bloemenvaas tegen een blauwe achtergrond. Aan het oor is een tinnen montuur met een deksel bevestigd. Westerwald.
Ina
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1888
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: song-birds: crow
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘epr. d'essai’, watermark:, signature: ‘Witsen’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: metal thread, silk
Culture: japanese
Subjects: men,working,looms
Daken in Amsterdam
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1900 – 1923
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: amsterdam
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: urban housing, roof (of house or building), amsterdam
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘dit raam lamplicht/ [...] om de hoek’

Links een tuitgevel. Pagina 46 uit een schetsboek met 39 bladen.
La Pegnitz et les anciens murs à Nurnberg
Object type: print
Date: 1873 – 1873
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: carel nicolaas storm van s-gravesande
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1841 – 1924
Subjects: bridge in city with structures, i.e. shops, houses, e.g. ponte vecchio in florence
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Drie portretten van vrouwen met hoed
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1900 – 1930
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: photograph, gelatin silver print, hand coloring
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, head-gear: hat
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘R/ [p]/ H’

Deze foto's en prent maken deel uit van een album.
Toilet jar
Object type: toilet jar
Date: 2323 – 2150
Materials: stone
Location: egypt

The objects 07.231.2-.6, .15, and .16 are] a group of stone vessels and necklaces excavated from an intact grave in the provincial/regional cemetery at Zaraby near Deir Rifa. The deceased was provided with a full size ointment jar and four miniature vases. Together they insured that the tomb owner would have the means for purification as well as food and drink for eternity. The tall beaker shape is traditional shape for ointment vessels at all periods of Egyptian history. The elongated form of the miniature vessels with high collared rim begins in the late Old Kingdom and continues through the First Intermediate Period where this shape is also characteristic of the pottery of this period.
Gazette du Bon Ton, 1920 - No. 3, p. XXIII: Robes d'après-midi de Lanvin et Beer
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1920 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: geneva
Artist: lucien vogel
Artist role: publisher
Subjects: dress, gown (afternoon dress) (+ women's clothes), fashion plates
Inscriptions: date

Advertentie van Mercie McHardy, Oxford Street, Londen: links een japon van Jeanne Lanvin, rechts een japon en mantel van Beer.
Christ and Nicodemus
Object type: drawing
Date: 1810 – 1848
Materials: graphite
Location: denmark
Artist: christen købke
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: danish
Artist dates: 1810 – 1848
Subjects: men,christ
Ruïne van de afgebrande schouwburg aan de Keizersgracht te Amsterdam, 1772
Object type: print
Date: 1772 – 1772
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: on fire, ablaze, theatre, theatrical performance, ruin of a building ~ architecture, theatre (building), fire-fighting
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘Archief Ministerie van Oorlog Afdeeling Genie’

Gezicht op de ruïne van de Amsterdamse Schouwburg aan de Keizersgracht na de brand van 11 mei 1772. Brandweerlieden blussen met waterspuiten de laatste vuurhaarden, anderen ruimen puin. Onder de voorstelling de titel en legenda A-E in het Nederlands (links) en Frans (rechts). Onderdeel van een serie van vier prenten met titelprent over de brand in de Amsterdamse Schouwburg.
Rua Xiaoqi (Katsuenra Genshoshichi), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Popular Water Margin (Tsuzoku Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1830
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa kuniyoshi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1861
Tango
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1917 – 1919
Materials: chalk, ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: otto verhagen (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1885 – 1951
Subjects: one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple
Inscriptions: signature: ‘O. VERHAGEN./ 1918.-’, annotation: ‘TANGO.-’

Losse tekening tussen het voorste schutblad en pagina 1 uit een schetsboek met 28 bladen.
Border
Object type: textile
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: cotton
Techniques: glazing, weave, printing
Location: england
Sistrum with the Name of King Amasis
Object type: music, sistrum, hathor emblem, bat
Date: 570 – 526
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs,hathor

Sistra are cultic musical instruments, which when shaken produced a rattling sound that was thought to be soothing and pacifying. These cultic instruments are closely connected to the goddess Hathor and they most commonly include the Hathor emblem, which contains a woman’s head with cow’s ears. The top of the piece here is in the shape of a naos between two volutes and thus belongs to a type of sistrum called "naos sistrum." This top part originally held three cross bars, as is evident from the three holes on the sides of the piece. Small sounding plates were presumably originally inserted onto these now missing bars in order to produce a rattling sound. Many sistra made out of faience are known. They might have been meant as gifts to a deity rather than as instruments that were played often, as the material would be too fragile for frequent use. The handle of the piece has two inscriptions that each give two of the names of king Amasis.
Bowl with petal-shaped rim
Object type: bowl
Date: 801 – 900
Materials: glaze, stoneware
Culture: chinese