deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Children and satyr children stealing the cubs of a pantheress (part of a group)
Object type: frieze
Date: 1781 – 1781
Materials: plaster
Artist: clodion (claude michel)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1738 – 1814
Subjects: animals,children,satyrs

This is one of a group of reliefs from the court of the Hôtel de Bourbon-Condé, Paris. It was built by the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart in 1781 for the princess Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé. The reliefs remained there until the beginning of the twentieth century.
Nocturne: Palaces
Object type: print
Date: 1879 – 1880
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, printing
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Subjects: buildings,canals,venice

Nocturne: Palaces is one of the most evocative of Whistler’s Venetian etchings. A gas lantern casts rays of light into the gathering darkness and acts as a focal point for a meeting of palace walls, canals, and a footbridge veiled by atmospheric haze. The delicate streaking of the ink in the upper and lower portions of the sheet creates effects similar to monotype achieved through careful wiping. Whistler trimmed the print to the plate line, leaving a small tab where he inscribed his butterfly signature, establishing the idea of a limited edition. He printed this work three years after returning to London from Venice, for an 1883 exhibition at the Fine Art Society. In 1886, it was published by Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau in Twenty-Six Etchings (the "Second Venice Set").
Singer
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1775 – 1785
Materials: hard paste porcelain, porcelain
Location: germany
Artist: modeler: franz anton bustelli
Artist nationality: german, born switzerland
Artist dates: 1723 – 1763
Rue des Tanneurs
Object type: print
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: brussels
Subjects: four-wheeled vehicle drawn by two animals, street, city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: : ‘Déposé’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Cup plate
Object type: glass
Date: 1840 – 1845
Materials: glass
Techniques: pressed
Location: sandwich
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
The Dance Lesson
Object type: drawing
Date: 1879 – 1879
Materials: chalk, pastel, paper
Artist: edgar degas
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1834 – 1917
Subjects: men,women,dancing,violins,dancers,ballet

Degas made various adjustments to this composition, presumably to accommodate the violinist in his final design. He added strips of paper at the top and to the right, and there is evidence to suggest that he may have altered the dancer's pose. A pastel study for the musician is in the Museum's collection (19.51.1). The present work was formerly owned by Gustave Caillebotte, who probably bought it from or soon after the Impressionist exhibition of 1879. In 1894 he bequeathed it to Renoir, who sold it shortly thereafter.
Mandolin
Object type: mandolin
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: ivory, wood, metal, mother of pearl, shell
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: angelo mannello
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american, born italy
Artist dates: 1858 – 1922

This instrument is among the finest decorated mandolins made in the U.S., where the Neapolitan mandolin, mostly played by Italian immigrants, became a fad between about 1880 and 1930. Angelo Manello emigrated from Italy in 1885 and established a mandolin factory in New York that in the early 1900s employed up to seventy-five makers, including artists for the decorative work. This instrument has a body of thirty-two fluted birds-eye maple ribs as well as mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell veneers.
Gezicht op Herengracht 439, hoek Koningsplein
Object type: drawing
Date: 1769 – 1769
Materials: ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: amsterdam
Artist: reinier vinkeles (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1741 – 1816
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', façade (of house or building), street
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Pieter Jan Eutrop van 1762-1770 op adres / Herengracht hk. Koningsplein / uitgever van Vinkeles’, collector's mark: ‘9’ Lugt 1641b, inscription: ‘Port. 9-213’, signature, date and inscription: ‘R Vinkeles ad viv delin 1769. / [...] ziend van den W[...] Meer A Ve[...]eul’

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kadijksplein, Karthuizerkerkhof, Kattegat, Kattenburg, Kapelsteeg O.Z., Enge Kerksteeg, Kerkstraat, Kinkerstraat, Kolk O.Z., Koningsplein, Kromboomsloot [Krom Boomssloot], Kostverlorenkade, Kwakersdwarspad, Kalverstraat, Keizersgracht (v.d. Brouwersgracht – Amstel), Klerensloot (Gedempte), Klimopstraat, Kloveniersburgwal, Kraansluis.
Headrest: Zoomorphic Heads
Object type: headrest
Date: 1401 – 1900
Materials: patina, pigment, wood
Culture: dogon
Location: mali
Artist: dogon blacksmith
Artist role: artist
Axe Head with Triangular Design
Object type: axe head
Date: 1000 – 1
Materials: bronze
Culture: chinese
Hoofd van Christus
Object type: print
Date: 1928 – 1928
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint
Artist: lodewijk schelfhout
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1881 – 1943
Subjects: crown of thorns ~ instruments of the passion, eyes closed, 'portraits' of christ
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 5i

Christus met doornenkroon en gesloten ogen.
Cryptomeria-laan, Nikko
Object type: photograph
Date: 1895 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: nikko
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: nikko
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘39. Cryptomeria-laan te Nikko.’
Gipsmodellen voor beeldhouwwerken op het Palais du Louvre: links "Bourdaloue"door Louis Desprez en rechts "Racine" door Michel-Pascal
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1855 – 1857
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: paris
Artist: édouard denis baldus
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1813 – 1889
Subjects: piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture, permanent exhibition, museum, paris, tuileries palace

Onderdeel van Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre 1852-1857, album 1.
Gekruisigde Christus met Maria, Johannes en Maria Magdelena
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1650
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: crucified christ with mary, john, and mary magdalene, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240, collector's mark: Lugt 1838
Third View of the Surroundings of Naples
Object type: print
Date: 1760 – 1780
Techniques: engraving
Artist: joseph vernet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1714 – 1789
Terracotta fragment of a bowl
Object type: fragment of a bowl
Date: 500 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Black glazed fragment from a bowl with a profiled foot; the outer edge of the foot is glazed; resting surface is glazed; the inner wall of the foot is glazed; the outer edge of the underside is reserved, followed by a thick band of black glaze; a thin black glazed circle interrupts the center, which is reserved
Portret van Colin Campbell
Object type: print
Date: 1822 – 1863
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: haarlem
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Onder het portret de signatuur van de geportretteerde.
Restauratie van de Westerkerk te Amsterdam
Object type: history medal
Date: 1987 – 1987
Materials: metal
Techniques: gilding, striking
Location: utrecht
Artist: willem vis
Artist role: sculptor
Artist dates: 1936 – 2007
Subjects: westerkerk
Flounce
Object type: flounce
Date: 1867 – 1900
Techniques: lace
Vue prise des Glacis de la Citadelle
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1954 – 1954
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph, lithograph
Location: brussels
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta'
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘[...]/ Willy/ Fam. J. de Boer/ portrait [?] Rijkspolitie/ W. [...]/ Breezand/ Pays Bas, N. H.’, inscription: ‘série 33, no 28’
Chalice Cover
Object type: textile
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: lace, metal, metal thread, silk
Techniques: lace, embroidery, laid work, weave
Location: spain
Mantelpiece
Object type: mantelpiece
Date: 1770 – 1780
Materials: marble
Portret van Pál Vadászi
Object type: print
Date: 1646 – 1646
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: vienna
Artist: elias widemann
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Animal Ornament
Object type: ornament
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: shell, metal
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Subjects: insects
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij van de geseling van Christus door Andrea Schiavone
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1850 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: cyanotype
Subjects: flagellation by soldiers, christ usually tied to a column (matthew 27:26; mark 15:15; john 19:1)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Andrea Meldolla/ gen./ Schiavone/ 1522-82/ Selenico-Venedig/ 148x131 cm/ Sammlg. Earl of Darnley/ Copie Kunsthist. Museum Wien’, inscription: ‘Andrea Schiavone (gen. Meldella)’
Plate
Object type: plate
Date: 1770 – 1772
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Subjects: flowers
Gezelschap zwemmend en in een roeiboot, Cupsuptic Lake, Maine
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: maine
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: rowing-boat, canoe, etc., swimming (movement in water)
Sauceboat
Object type: sauceboat
Date: 1745 – 1745
Materials: stoneware
Techniques: salt glaze
Subjects: birds,lions
Negentien koperen kandelaars
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: annotation, annotation
Strijder en vrouw
Object type: print
Date: 1539 – 1539
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: giovanni battista scultori
Artist role: print maker, sculptor
Artist dates: 1503 – 1575
Subjects: armour, walking
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een strijder gekleed in wapenrusting, lopend samen met een vrouw.
Evening dress
Object type: evening dress
Date: 1853 – 1853
Materials: cotton, silk
Culture: french
Passie van Christus
Object type: print
Date: 1510 – 1699
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: christ before annas (hanna); maybe a soldier about to strike christ (john 18:13, 18:19-24)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 12

Prent naar houtsnede van Albrecht Dürer uit een serie van zevenendertig prenten met als onderwerp het levensverhaal van Christus, bekend als Passie van Christus. Illustratie gebruikt voor: Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer Nurenburgensi effigiata, Abraham van Waesberge (uitgever).
Kwitantie voor Jan Wendel Gerstenhauer Zimmerman
Object type: ontvangstbewijs, kwitantie
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan wendel gerstenhauer zimmerman
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1816 – 1887
Subjects: rotterdam, print maker, draughtsman, jan wendel gerstenhauer zimmerman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony
Object type: print
Date: 1524 – 1524
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Hat
Object type: hat
Date: 1866 – 1868
Materials: silk, fiber
Culture: american
Afgemeerde schepen met sloepen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1820 – 1872
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: hendrik abraham klinkhamer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1810 – 1872
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat
Vases Nouveaus
Object type: print
Date: 1682 – 1734
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: vase ~ ornament, nymphs (in general); 'ninfe in commune' (ripa), garden vase
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘H3E’

Prent maakt deel uit van een serie van zes prenten.
Card Number 107, Blanche Vaughan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
Object type: print
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" (N145-2), 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 second subset, N145-2. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Amstel Kerk
Object type: print
Date: 1826 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: church (exterior), city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kerkwezen: Hervormde Gemeente: Amstelkerk.
Plate 9: Arch of Constantine in Rome (Arco di Costantino in Roma), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"
Object type: print
Date: 1748 – 1748
Techniques: etching
Artist: giovanni battista piranesi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1720 – 1778
Subjects: arches,buildings,rome
Kanonneerboot twee van Jan van Speyk overrompeld, 1831
Object type: print
Date: 1831 – 1849
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: amsterdam, antwerp, jan van speyk, battle, fighting in general (+ naval force), ships (in general) - cc - more than one ship, being attacked; defence
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp, stamp

De kanonneerboot van Jan van Speyk overrompeld door Belgische opstandelingen. Jan van Speyk staat met pistool in opgeheven hand bij de kajuitstrap, 5 februari 1831. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Krijgswezen, Zeemacht.
Wellin, Givet en Godinne
Object type: photograph
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: belgium
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the family travelling, on holiday, customs, outing, pleasure trip, automobile, belgium
Inscriptions: inscription

Albumblad met drie foto's van een autovakantie. Gezichten onderweg in België. Onder de foto's uitgeknipte papiertjes met getypte opschriften. Onderdeel van het derde fotoalbum met foto's van familievakanties in Nederland, België en Luxemburg in 1952-1953.
Schaal, versierd met bloemenmand binnen lambrequinrand
Object type: dish
Date: 1705 – 1725
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Location: delft
Artist: pieter adriaensz. kocx
Inscriptions: mark: ‘APK (ineen)’, collector's mark: ‘collection loudon’

Schaal, rond en geribd, van faïence. Veelkleurig beschilderd met een bloemenmand binnen een lambrequinrand.
Goblet
Object type: glass
Date: 1760 – 1760
Materials: glass
Techniques: glassblowing, cutting, engraving
Location: russia
Artist: st petersburg glass factory
Artist nationality: russian
Artist dates: 1738 – 1917
The Carpenter, from Arts et Métiers
Object type: print
Date: 1838 – 1838
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: bernard gaillot
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1780 – 1847
View of the Quinta dos Pizões, Sintra
Object type: print
Date: 1840 – 1840
Techniques: printmaking, lithograph
Artist: clementine de brelaz
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: portuguese
Artist dates: 1811 – 1892

Sintra (Cintra) is a summer resort near Lisbon on the 'Portuguese Riviera' that historically has been frequented by the royal family and the nobility. Much of the architecture is in the neo-Renaissance style built in the nineteenth century. This is from a collection of picturesque views of Sintra by the lithographer and sometime painter Clementine de Brelaz. She was born in Lisbon in 1811, and migrated to Switzerland, as a Protestant convert. According to Carl Brun (Schweizerisches Künstler Lexikon), Brelaz was taught in Geneva by the Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame (1810–64), presumably during the 1830s. The series of plates are from a set of 18 with a title ‘Coquis de Cintra: Dessines d’apres et lithographies par CNE B.’, Lisbon, Litografia de Manuel Luis, 1840.
Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1872 – 1872
Materials: gouache, graphite, watercolor, paper
Culture: american
Artist: william trost richards
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1833 – 1905
Subjects: roads,men,mountains,landscapes

Early Museum records identify this picture as “The Franconia Mountains from Campton, New Hampshire,” but Campton is miles from the site portrayed, the entrance to Franconia Notch. In the center is Mount Lafayette, flanked by Cannon Mountain and Eagle Cliff on the left and Mount Lincoln and Little Haystack on the right. The image reflects a tour of the White Mountains shared by Richards, the Reverend Elias L. Magoon (who donated this and 84 other watercolors to the Museum in 1880) and their wives in June 1872, and probably portrays the white-maned clergyman himself, absorbed in a book as he strolls the path in the foreground.
Portret van twee onbekende jongens
Object type: photograph
Date: 1862 – 1885
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: rennes
Artist: charles gérard
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: boy (child between toddler and youth), anonymous historical person portrayed
Inscriptions: address: ‘Avenue de la Gare, 55./ RENNES’, number: ‘No 9668’
Fragment
Object type: textile
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: cotton, silk
Techniques: embroidered, weave
Location: east indies

Originally a bedspread, this fragment was repurposed into a chair cover in the course of time. It is decorated with a lotus blossom and carnation pattern in Indo-Persian style. Reusing fabric was common practice in the 18th century. For example, remnants of costly chintz were used for decorating doll’s houses, or as clothing for dolls and babies.
Zanze
Object type: zanze
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: metal
Culture: angolan
Location: angola
Waistcoat Design
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: paper
Location: england
Subjects: flowers, black (color), red (color), green (color), yellow (color), purple (color), daffodils
Portret van een onbekend meisje
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1875
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, girl (child between toddler and youth)
Beugel van gevest uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: beugel gevestl, gevestbeugel
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: copper
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Hilt, guard; fragm, single shell, shell-shaped with scrolling wavy outlineand ribbed surface, rectangular hole at end bent.
Head of a Woman
Object type: stained glass fragment
Date: 1440 – 1460
Materials: glass, paint, pigment
Culture: french
Subjects: heads,women
Fig. 37 'De Flore Aphricano' in De Boodts herbarium van 1640
Object type: text sheet
Date: 1640 – 1640
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: bruges
Artist: anselmus boëtius de boodt
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1550 – 1632

Beschrijving bij Fig. 37 op p. 72 in: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Roman. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Onderdeel van het album met bladen en platen uit De Boodts herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend rond 1600, gemaakt in opdracht van keizer Rudolf II.
Hermen (kopieën)
Object type: print
Date: 1536 – 1570
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: meester van de dobbelsteen
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: constructive (architectural) parts ~ human beings, trees (+ stem, trunk)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’, number: ‘5’, collector's mark: Lugt 11

Twee hermen (vierkante pijler met menselijke buste of bovenlichaam) van bebaarde mannen. De linker heeft het bovenlichaam van een man, een lauwerkrans op zijn hoofd en zijn armen over elkaar geslagen. De rechter heeft aan de bovenzijde een man, driekwart naar links, en aan de onderzijde een boomstam.
Drie jongelingen in de brandende oven en het feestmaal van Belsassar
Object type: print
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: the story of the three hebrews in the fiery furnace (daniel 3), during belshazzar's banquet a hand appears and writes on the wall (mene, mene, tekel and parsin (upharsin)); king belshazzar is frightened
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233, collector's mark

Twee Bijbelse voorstellingen uit Dan. 3 en 5. Drie jongelingen worden in de brandende oven beschermd door God, en tijdens het feestmaal van Belsassar verschijnt een hand die een tekst op de muur schrijft. Twee voorstellingen van één plaat, elk voorzien van een titel in het Nederlands en Frans. Geheel rechtsonder genummerd: 75.
Marskramer door apen beroofd
Object type: print
Date: 1562 – 1562
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: monkeys, apes, pedlar
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een slapende koopman of marskramer wordt beroofd en bespot door apen. De apen hebben zijn mand met koopwaar opengemaakt en spelen met de inhoud. Een aap heeft de broek van de man losgemaakt en knijpt zijn neus dicht tegen de stank, een andere aap poept in zijn hoed. Op de achtergrond danst een groep apen, terwijl andere apen muziek maken.
Bruiloftskaart voor 'Mejuffrouw J: M: Schnetzler'
Object type: drawing
Date: 1780 – 1800
Materials: paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: johanna magdalena schnetzler, wedding feast, wedding meal
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Naamkaartje voor Johanna Magdalena Schnetzler (in 1792 gehuwd met Jean Bernard) te gebruiken bij de tafelindeling bij een bruiloftsmaal. Onderdeel van een groep van bruilofts- en invitatiekaartjes van de families Bernard en Metayer. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Des Menschen Begin, Midden en Einde. Bruiloft en huwelijk.
Ontwerp voor decoratie van het gedenkboek voor koningin Wihelmina uit 1923
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1945
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: other ornament derived from animal forms - aa - stylized, birds
Engagement of Princess Charlotte to William of Orange, London, 1813
Object type: drawing
Date: 1813 – 1813
Materials: gouache, graphite, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: anonymous, british, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1800 – 1900
Subjects: bridges,fireworks,london
Horse Bit
Object type: bit
Date: 601 – 900
Materials: copper alloy, gold, iron, silver
Techniques: inlay
Culture: byzantine or visigothic
Location: spain

This elaborately decorated bit, resembling the spade bit used by some (Western-style) riders today, has a large projecting tongue, or port, that would have been inserted into the horse’s mouth. The bridle was attached to the moveable rectangular plaques, while the reins were strung through the rings on the straight bar, beneath the horse’s jaw. The severity of the bit implies both a well-schooled horse and a skilled rider; a misstep by either would inflict great pain on the beast. The rich inlaid decoration includes Greek monograms, human faces, animal heads, and vine scrolls. Perhaps copied from or inspired by Byzantine art, the Greek monogram likely indicated the importance of the horse’s owner.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 550 – 526
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Below the rim, part of a palmette with tendrils