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Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 34 (recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1601 – 1601
Techniques: woodcut
Location: italy
Artist: cesare vecellio
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1521 – 1601
Subjects: ornament

Published by Cesare Vecellio, Italian, Pieve di Cadore 1521-1601 Venice, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with 4 ornamented triangles that sit upon a rectangular base ornamented with flowers and other linear patterns. Bottom register is decorated with 4 ornamented triangles that sit upon a rectangular base ornamented with floral and diamond motifs.
Installatie van ketel op Padang Halaban en aanleg tennisbaan op Brussel, 1936
Object type: album leaf
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: sumatra
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: plantation, tennis, lawn-tennis, (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: rubber, parts of machines, (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: palm oil, sumatra
Inscriptions: inscription

Blad met zeven foto's van de installatie van de nieuwe ketel op Padang Halaban en de aanleg van een tennisbaan op Brussel, 1936. Met etiketten met onderschriften onder de foto's. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum over de plantages Brussel en Pernantian van de Sumatra Caoutchouc Maatschappij op de Oostkust van Sumatra in de jaren 1910-1935.
Boerenbruiloft te 's-Graveland
Object type: print
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: dancing at wedding feast
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, collector's mark

Boerenbruiloftsfeest te 's-Graveland. Centraal dansende paren, rechts muzikanten. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Des Menschen Begin, Midden en Einde. Bruiloft en huwelijk.
Meetinghouse Hill, Roxbury, Massachusetts
Object type: painting
Date: 1799 – 1799
Materials: canvas, oil
Location: roxbury
Artist: john ritto penniman
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1782 – 1841
Subjects: landscapes, architecture, cityscapes
Twee mannen genieten van drank en voedsel terwijl Satan vanachter de wereldbol toekijkt
Object type: print
Date: 1710 – 1710
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan luyken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1712
Subjects: earth, world as celestial body, devil(s) and demons: satan, eating and drinking
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Proefdruk voor illustratie uit: Luyken, Jan. De onwaardige wereld, vertoond in vyftig zinnebeelden, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen. Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz. II (wed.) en Cornelis van der Sys, 1710, p. 176.
Plate (part of a set of six)
Object type: plate
Date: 1790 – 1790
Materials: earthenware
Artist: john turner
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1762 – 1786
Subjects: men,pigs
Ooievaar, kraanvogel, reiger en lepelaar
Object type: print
Date: 1594 – 1594
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: shore-birds and wading-birds: crane, shore-birds and wading-birds: stork, shore-birds and wading-birds: heron
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit serie van twaalf prenten met vogels en insecten. Bij Hollstein zijn bladen van een andere serie prenten afgebeeld, zie De Groot 1988, p. 37.
Gracht in Amsterdam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: canals, waters (in city), amsterdam
Verering van het standbeeld van de grote Roland
Object type: print
Date: 1793 – 1793
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: breasts giving milk, roland, monument, statue, drum (musical instrument) - cc - out of doors, flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Latere staat gebruikt voor: Wächter, Leonhard. Historien von Leonhard Waechter (...). Hamburg: Bachmann und Gundermann, 1794.
Hanna in de heide
Object type: print
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, etching
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: adult woman, storing in sacks ~ harvest, plain
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘1e staat’
Portret van Corry Mak van Waay-Zulver bij de doop van het schip Sunetta
Object type: photograph
Date: 1934 – 1934
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: rotterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, christening a ship, rotterdam
Twee trekossen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1880 – 1911
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: pieter dupont
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1870 – 1911
Subjects: ox
In the Yoshiwara District
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: isoda koryūsai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1735 – 1790
Subjects: women

The figures in this print are separated by a difference in scale as well as by physical barriers. The large figure in the foreground is a courtesan passing through the curtained door of a public bathhouse. Our attention, however, is drawn to the smaller-scale woman in the background who is framed within a latticed window. She is in a state of undress, but she is so eager to see who is in the entrance corridor that she has only half-covered herself with a cloth. She steadies herself with a hand on the window as she peers out. Traditionally, a bathing woman is an object of voyeurism. Koryūsai adds a twist to the theme by turning her into an observer as well.
Vertrekkende groep officieren uit Busan
Object type: color slide
Date: 1951 – 1953
Techniques: slide
Location: korea
Artist: david ketel
Artist role: diplomaat, sinoloog
Artist dates: 1913 – 2008
Subjects: united nations

Vertrekkende groep officieren uit Busan, waaronder majoor Teuling.
Portret van Honoré Gabriël Riqueti, Graaf Mirabeau
Object type: print
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, engraving
Artist: angélique briceau
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1767 – 1827
Subjects: paris, politician, honoré-gabriel de riqueti (graaf van mirabeau), historical persons
Inscriptions: date

Portretbuste van een van de kopstukken van de Franse Revolutie. Zijn gezicht is naar links gewend en toont de zware littekens als gevolg van de pokken die de geportretteerde als 3-jarig kind troffen.
Rest on the flight into Egypt, Mary holding the infant Christ with St. Joseph at right, copy after Cantarini
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: simone cantarini
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1612 – 1648
Subjects: holy family
Pilaster end
Object type: pilaster end
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: wood
Die Tafelrunde Friedrich II
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1858 – 1868
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: berlin
Subjects: berlin, frederick ii (king of prussia), table-ware, evening meal, dinner, supper
Inscriptions: number: ‘459.’
October
Object type: print
Date: 1608 – 1618
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: landscape symbolizing september, libra (zodiacal sign of september), landscape with tower or castle, tow-boat, towing-barge, towing path
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 698, collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een rivierlandschap met figuren op een landweg in de regen, voorstellende de maand oktober. In het midden een houten brug. Rechts een huis met een man in een wijnkuip. Onderaan het astrologische symbool van het sterrenbeeld schorpioen. Prent uit een serie van twaalf.
Raam met voorstelling van de beeldhouwer Hendrick de Keyser
Object type: light window
Date: 1883 – 1884
Materials: glass, lead
Techniques: leading
Location: england
Artist: william francis dixon
Artist role: glasschilder, glazenier
Subjects: utrecht, amsterdam, print maker, sculptor, hendrick de keyser (i)
Portret van Elisabeth Marie Joséphine Mazeman de Couthove op bidprent
Object type: prayer card
Date: 1866 – 1866
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print, lithograph
Location: bruges
Subjects: adult woman, historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Priez pour l'Ame/ de Dame Elisabet-Marie-Jo'sephine/ Mazeman de Couthove (...) Lith. Daveluy, Bruges.’, inscription: ‘Br. M[...]’
Young Women in a Landscape with Architectural Fragments
Object type: drawing
Date: 1773 – 1773
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: brush, printmaking, pen, wash
Artist: hubert robert
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1733 – 1808
Subjects: women,landscapes,trees
De Hollandse werkmeid, 1840-1841
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1841 – 1841
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: netherlands
Subjects: professional clothes, maid ~ house personnel, netherlands

De Hollandse werkmeid, dienstbode. Staande jonge vrouw met mand onder de arm. Genummerd: 7. Illustratie in het boek 'De Nederlanden: karakterschetsen, kleederdrachten, houding en voorkomen van verschillende standen', een boek met karakterschetsen, beroepen en klederdrachten van Nederlandse volkstypen uit 1841.
E.R. Kietz, directeur van de Biscuit-, Chocolade- und Zuckerwaaren-Fabrikation te Langensalza
Object type: page
Date: 1900 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: bad langensalza
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: e.r. kietz, historical persons - bb - woman, director, boss (in modern industry), book - mm - book open, biscuits
Mystieke huwelijk van de heilige Catharina
Object type: print
Date: 1540 – 1540
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: venice
Subjects: the foster-father of christ, joseph of nazareth, husband of mary; possible attributes: flowering rod or wand, lily, carpenter's tools, the mystic marriage of st. catherine of alexandria with the infant christ: the christ-child puts a ring on her finger, angels in adoration
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Maria houdt het Christuskind vast terwijl deze een ring om de vinger schuift van de heilige Catharina die voor hem knielt. Links twee aanbiddende engelen en rechts Jozef. In het midden een oudere vrouw, mogelijk de heilige Anna.
Portret van een onbekende vrouw met een hond
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1900
Materials: paper, cardboard, glass, metal, textile
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman, anonymous historical person portrayed, dog
Vase
Object type: vase
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: clay, glaze
Culture: japanese
Artist: minzan
Artist role: artist
Portret van Étienne Pierre Sylvestre Ricard
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1818 – 1818
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, roulette
Location: paris
Subjects: politician, commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Mogelijk prent uit: Tardieu, Ambroise. Portraits des généraux français, faisant suite aux "Victoires et conquêtes des Français". Parijs: Panckoucke, Charles Louis Fleury, ca. 1818.
Sheet with an overall floral pattern
Object type: print
Date: 1836 – 1836
Techniques: relief print
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Fotoreproductie van een prent van een krijger met een trofee
Object type: page
Date: 1852 – 1857
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Subjects: adult man, trophy ~ battle, war
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘[Duch. No] 2[7]2. col. V. Sestich’
Unas lindas mañanitas a las muchachas bonitas (A Lovely Serenade for the Pretty Ladies)
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: relief print
Location: mexico
Artist: attributed to josé guadalupe posada
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Table Design with Bacchus and Boar's head
Object type: drawing
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: graphite
Artist: anonymous, british, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1800 – 1900
Subjects: grapes,bacchus,boars,leaves
Trade card for Howlett and Brimmer, Metallic Printer
Object type: print, trade card
Date: 1801 – 1900
Techniques: engraving
Artist: anonymous, british, 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1700 – 1800
Virgin and Child
Object type: statuette
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: wood
Culture: south netherlandish
Kohl tube, incised
Object type: kohl tube, incised
Date: 332 – 330
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Biel. Taubenloch, Gorges
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1895 – 1905
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: zurich
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: waterfall, ravine, chasm, abyss, canyon
Inscriptions: stamp: ‘Taubenloch. Bözingen’
[Actress posing with hand over head], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1891 – 1891
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" (N145-8), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke 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 eighth subset, N145-8. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Portret van een man met baard
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1888 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: brussels
Subjects: historical persons, beard
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘DUPONT/ 75, rue Neuve/ BRUXELLES/ MÉDAILLES:/ Utrechts 1876/ Paris 1878./ Gand 1880./ Bruxelles 1880./ Paris Electricité 1881./ Lille 1882./ Amsterdam (Or) 1883./ Nice (Or) 1884./ Anvers hors concours 1885./ Bruxelles (Or) 1888’
Hat
Object type: hat
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: metal, silk
Culture: french

Millinery was a source of great pleasure and pride for women in the last quarter of the 19th century. Highly intricate and refined styles such as this were testaments to the skill of the milliner. The quality of this hat is evident in the artful draping of the mousseline de soie and skillful application of the buckles and bows.
Fragment messenheft uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: fragment
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Knife, handle, cylindrical: tapering; fragm, id. NG 1979-403H, ferrule, id. NG 1980-27H426.
Prayer desk
Object type: prie dieu
Date: 1844 – 1844
Materials: wood
Artist: augustus welby northmore pugin
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1812 – 1852

After the architect and designer A. W. N. Pugin converted to Catholicism in 1835, his work was strongly influenced by his ideas of life in pre-Reformation England. The Grange, the house Pugin built for himself in Ramsgate (1843–44), was a perfect example of this romantic medieval vision. This prie-dieu was designed for Pugin’s own use in the chapel at The Grange, which although small in size was completely outfitted for celebrating Mass with organ, sacristy, vestments, church plate etc.: a watercolor of the chapel from around 1844 shows the shadowy outline of a similar prayer bench in front of the altar. Pugin’s furniture, intended mostly for the houses he designed, is relatively simple, somewhat severe and ecclesiastical in nature of which this prie-dieu is an excellent example. Yet this rather plain prayer bench, which has a minimum of ornamental features and no upholstery or padding, has its own natural grace. This is expressed in the elegant curves of the two chamfered uprights, the ogival arch-shaped lower edge of the cross piece underneath the elbow rest and also under the trestle feet. Although the trefoil-shaped tusked tenons might look purely decorative they are part of the so-called "revealed construction" which was later widely used by Arts and Crafts designers.
A Short History of General Joseph Hooker, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: men,portraits

Miniature booklets from the "Histories of Generals" series (N78), issued in a set of 50 booklets in 1888 to promote W. Duke Sons & Co. brand cigarettes. Each booklet consists of 16 pages with covers.
Untitled Valentine (Reclining Antique Couple)
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1855 – 1855
Materials: gold paint, paper
Techniques: collage, cutting, embossing
Location: england
Artist: john windsor
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Looking Glass
Object type: looking glass
Date: 1810 – 1820
Materials: gesso, gilt, wood
Culture: american or british
Location: england
Subjects: eagles,snakes
Personificatie van de kerk met Lodewijk XII, koning van Frankrijk
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: london
Subjects: charity, 'caritas'; 'carità' (ripa) ~ one of the three theological virtues, destruction, historical persons, the church personified, 'ecclesia', usually with chalice and banner, coin, king
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: Montfaucon, Bernard de. A collection of regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of France (...). Londen: William Innys, John en Paul Knapton, R. Manby en Henry Shute Cox, 1750, dl. 2. Prent voor het eerst, met andere nummering, verschenen in: Montfaucon, Bernard de. Les monumens de la Monarchie Françoise (...). Parijs: Julien-Michel Gandouin en Pierre-François Giffart, 1729-1733.
Idealisten II en verdere Kanttekeningen
Object type: print
Date: 1923 – 1923
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: erich wichmann
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1890 – 1929
Subjects: caricatures (human types)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Onderaan de tekst: 'Verkeerde zachtheid + verkeerde hardheid (Asbone stelsel enz.)'.
Mirror with knobs and swirls
Object type: mirror
Materials: bronze, patina
Culture: chinese

Song antiquarian catalogues refer to this décor pattern as “nipples.” Later collectors and scholars described it as a “star and cloud” patterns, but without either textual or archaeological evidence. A more plausible theory argues that the design evolved from the disintegration of an earlier pattern of interlaced dragons.
Figuur smekend voor een priester / Jager richt zijn pijl en boog op een tijger
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1692 – 1692
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: utrecht
Subjects: priest ~ hinduism, buddhism, jainism, beasts of prey, predatory animals: tiger, archer's weapons: bow and arrow, hunter, sri lanka
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Knox, Robert. t'Eyland Ceylon in sĳn binnenste, of't koningrijck Candy. Utrecht: Willem Broedelet, 1692.
Ontwerp voor een boekrug voor: Hélène Lapidoth-Swarth, Diepe wateren, 1897
Object type: drawing
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: willem wenckebach
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1937
Subjects: flowers, trees (+ root, tuber)
Inscriptions: :, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Bandontwerp voor: Lapidoth-Swarth, Hélène. Diepe wateren. Amsterdam: Van Kampen, 1897.
Belt Plaque with Confronted Rams
Object type: belt plaque
Date: 1 – 200
Materials: bronze
Culture: north chinese
Subjects: rams
Landing Place, Railway Stores, Balaklava
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1855
Materials: paper
Techniques: photography, salted paper print
Location: england
Artist: roger fenton
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1819 – 1869
Subjects: collected by hugh edwards
Set of bookcase doors
Object type: bookcase door
Date: 1701 – 1750
Materials: wood
Flower Still-life with an Alabaster Vase
Object type: painting
Date: 1783 – 1783
Materials: canvas, oil, paint
Location: paris
Artist: gerard van spaendonck
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1746 – 1822
Subjects: flowers, cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers, birds (+ egg), piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture, flowers in a vase, insects
Inscriptions: signature and date: ‘G. Van Spaendonck. 1783.’

Gerard van Spaendonck from Tilburg made his career in Paris, where he rose to become the botanical painter of the king of France, a highly distinguished position. His flower still lifes were considered as the best in his time. Exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1783, this painting was praised for the true-to-life flowers, insects, and objects. The window of the artist’s studio is reflected in the alabaster vase.
Fotoreproductie van een tekening van een jonge vrouw door Johannes Christiaan d'Arnaud Gerkens
Object type: page
Date: 1858 – 1863
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Artist: onesimos
Artist role: artist

Exterior, head of youth to left, with black eye?
Me stella duce
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1800 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Gezicht op de Dam te Amsterdam met de Nieuwe Kerk
Object type: envelope
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: amsterdam
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: church (exterior), square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: workshop stamp: Lugt 291d, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, stamp: ‘[...] 14/ dec/ 98’, address: ‘de weledel geb. Heer/ GH Breitner/ Amsterdam/ Spui 23’
Landschap met vrouw met hoed
Object type: print
Date: 1781 – 1822
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: hermanus fock
Artist role: conservator, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1766 – 1822
Subjects: dunes (sea not visible); in the dunes (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een duinlandschap met een grote boom. Op de voorgrond bij een plas staat een vrouw bij een zittende man. Op de achtergrond loopt een man op het zandpad.
Passementerie
Object type: passementerie
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal thread
Portret van een man met een strikje, mogelijk A.J. Swart
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1895 – 1905
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam, the hague, historical persons, neck-gear ~ clothing, family, relationship, descent, netherlands

Onderdeel van Familiealbum van H.W.F. Ligtenberg en L.M. Swart met 149 foto's en cartes-de-visite.
Terracotta miniature oinochoe (jug)
Object type: oinochoe, miniature
Date: 400 – 301
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek or south italian or campanian
Subjects: men

The body is ribbed and has a small head of a bearded man projecting at the front. The concept is noteworthy because figural embellishments usually occur at the bottom or the top of the vertical handle.
Theatrical skirt with grapevines
Object type: skirt, imperial theatrical
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: brocade, embroidery
Culture: chinese
Subjects: leaves

The pattern of this skirt—part of a theatrical ensemble with matching jacket 30.76.24—features an amalgam of grapevines and dragons that twists and curves across the white background. You can see one dragon head on the left of the jacket, and another can be found in the center on the back. The quality of both the materials and the workmanship is very high: note the subtle changes in color of the silk embroidery within the leaves and the use of gold thread to delineate the branches, leaves, and tendrils of the grapevine.