deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Sunset
Object type: painting
Date: 1870 – 1880
Materials: canvas, oil
Culture: american
Artist: harvey o. young
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1840 – 1901
Subjects: cows,landscapes
Anatomische studie van de onderkant van de linkervoet
Object type: print
Date: 1685 – 1685
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: lower leg, tendons, sinews, muscles, foot
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Boekillustratie voor Bidloo, Godefridus. Anatomia humani corporis centum & quinque tabulis, per art. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, de monstrata, veterum recentiorumque inventis explicata plurimisque, hactenus non detectis, illustrata. Amsterdam: Weduwe Joannes van Someren, Hendrick Boom en erven Dirk Boom, 1685.
Spinnenweb
Object type: drawing
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: willem wenckebach
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1937
Subjects: spiders
Inscriptions: :, collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Ontwerp voor: Knappert, Emilie C. Kijkjes in de plantenwereld. Loman & Funke: Amsterdam, 1893.
Antiope
Object type: drawing
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, italian, 17th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1600 – 1700
Subjects: soldiers
Orthostat relief: lion attacking a deer
Object type: relief
Materials: limestone, paint
Culture: hittite
Location: syria
Subjects: deer,lions

The powerful Neo-Assyrian Empire influenced the surrounding region culturally as well as politically. In the west a number of small but powerful Aramaean city-states acted as a barrier between Assyria and the Mediterranean coast. These have been called Neo-Hittite city-states because of their dynastic continuity and relation to the preceding Hittites of Anatolia. These rival states were gradually brought under the control of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by military conquest. Stone slabs carved in low relief had traditionally decorated the walls of the Neo-Hittite palaces and temples. This slab depicts a lion attacking a deer. It is one of many excavated at Tell Halaf, the ancient Aramaean site of Guzana, bearing images of fantastic creatures, hunting scenes, and ceremonial banquets. Carved in the late tenth or ninth century B.C., before the Assyrian conquests of the region, the reliefs appear to have embellished an earlier building and then been reused on the walls of the palace of King Kapara. This building was a special local form known as a bit hilani, composed of two parallel long rooms, one of which had a pillared entrance.
Plate 5 from "Les Grandes Frises"
Object type: print
Date: 1626 – 1626
Techniques: etching
Artist: pierre brebiette
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1598 – 1642
Subjects: men,women,dancing,satyrs
Alabastron (Container for Scented Oil)
Object type: vessel
Date: 700 – 100
Materials: alabaster
Culture: egyptian
Location: egypt

Before soap was invented, scented oils were used for bathing or perfume and stored in vials like this one. This early Egyptian example was carved from alabaster, a translucent stone that is plentiful in Egypt. Through trade the Greeks obtained and then copied the shape in colored glass or clay, calling the shape an “alabastron,” after the stone used for the vessels. Because they were considered very personal belongings, alabastrons were often buried with their owners and have been found frequently in tombs.
Ruïnes van de tempel van Kom Ombo
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1857 – 1862
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: kom ombo
Artist: francis frith
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1822 – 1898
Subjects: temple, shrine ~ egyptian religion, ruin of a building ~ architecture
Inscriptions: number: ‘XLI’, name: ‘Frith’
Teapot
Object type: teapot
Date: 1760 – 1793
Materials: pewter, wood
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: william kirby
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1735 – 1811
Paleis voor Volksvlijt
Object type: print
Date: 1864 – 1875
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: exterior ~ representation of a building
Seated Crowned Male Figure Holding a Book or Scroll (recto); Seated Nude Boy (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1548 – 1612
Materials: charcoal, paper
Artist: bernardino poccetti
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1548 – 1612
Subjects: scrolls,men
Portret van de boekverkoopster Isabella Tinkler uit Richmond op 92-jarige leeftijd
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint
Artist: george cuitt (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1743 – 1818
Subjects: pipe ~ tobacco, knitting, book-shop, bookseller
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 4779, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een pijprokende vrouw, zittend op een krukje voor een boekenkast. In haar schoot liggen twee boeken, naast haar een stok en een breiwerk met een bol wol.
Gaat U emigreren.......
Object type: photograph
Date: 1950 – 1960
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Italian Boy
Object type: painting
Date: 1866 – 1866
Materials: canvas, oil
Culture: american
Artist: william morris hunt
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1824 – 1879
Subjects: boys
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: fiber
Culture: japanese or ryukyuan
Subjects: flowers,leaves
Taperstick
Object type: taperstick
Date: 1778 – 1779
Materials: silver gilt
Artist: samuel meriton
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1739 – 1839
Cachepot
Object type: cachepot
Date: 1740 – 1740
Materials: stoneware
Techniques: salt glaze
Windowpane
Object type: windowpane
Date: 1835 – 1845
Materials: glass
Culture: american
Location: united states
Blad met alternerend strooipatroon van uitgespaarde ovaal met takje en ruitmotief
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1750 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament derived from plant forms
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met alternerend strooipatroon van uitgespaarde ovaal met takje en ruitmotief. Helft van een omslag.
Voorgevel van Hofstede Sparenhout bij Haarlem
Object type: drawing
Date: 1788 – 1852
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: wybrand tollenaar
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1778 – 1852
Subjects: country-house
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, signature: ‘W. Tollenaar.’, annotation: ‘20 voet/ 4 el’
"The First Combat of Gav and Talhand", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Object type: folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: 1330 – 1340
Materials: gold, ink, paper, silver, watercolor
Location: iran
Artist: abu'l qasim firdausi
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: iranian
Artist dates: 935 – 1020
Subjects: men,elephants
Cup and saucer
Object type: cup and saucer
Date: 1717 – 1720
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: meissen manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 – 9999

The Meissen factory, established outside Dresden in 1710, was the first in Europe to discover the formula for hard-paste porcelain. This coffee cup with saucer is one of the earliest manufactured at Meissen. It is decorated with a metallic luster glaze in the interior of both the cup and the saucer. The gold content of this glaze, which produced the pearly iridescence, made it an expensive type of decoration, underscoring the high status of coffee drinking.
Nederland, gulden, 1848
Object type: coin
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: utrecht
Artist: william ii of the netherlands
Artist role: koning
Artist dates: 1792 – 1849

Zilveren munt. Voorzijde: borstbeeld naar links. Keerzijde: tussen waarde-aanduiding 1 G gekroond rijkswapenschild. Jaartal boven kroon. Randschrift.
Blad met strooipatroon van bloem
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1700 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament derived from plant forms

Blad met strooipatroon van een bloem in een soort cartouche van bladelementen. Gebruikt als omslag, het middendeel gedoubleerd.
Portret van Georg Cassander
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1663 – 1707
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: cologne, historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Borstbeeld van Georg Cassander, met motto: Quando tandem. Onder het portret een vers van zes regels in het Nederlands door Geeraert Brandt. Omlijsting met allegorische figuren en symbolen. Prent gedrukt van twee platen
Historische gekostumeerde optocht te Amsterdam bij het  25-jarige regeringsjubileum van koning Willem III in 1874 (plaat 3)
Object type: print
Date: 1874 – 1874
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: brussels, willem iii (koning der nederlanden), the hague, frederick henry (prince of orange), public festivities at other royal events, not meant or mentioned above (+ parade, pageant, cavalcade ~ festive activities), costumes used in pageants, amsterdam

Plaat nr. 3 met het deel van de optocht met figuren uit de tijd van prins Frederik Hendrik. Onderdeel van een serie van 24 platen van de gekostumeerde historische en allegorische optocht gehouden te Amsterdam op 12 mei 1874, als onderdeel van de feestelijkheden tijdens de viering van het 25-jarige regeringsjubileum van koning Willem III.
Vismarkt
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1767
Materials: paper
Techniques: printmaking, etching, roulette
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: market, commercial fishery (+ trade ~ crafts, industries, agriculture)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RIJKS / MUSM’, inscription: ‘Jan Josephzoon van Goyen. del. Ploos van Amstel. Fecit. 1767.’, collector's mark: Lugt 2725

Bij het water in een stad komen mensen bijeen om vis te kopen en te verkopen. Rechts een standbeeld. De prent ligt los in een album, zie blad 10.
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857)
Object type: medal
Materials: bronze
Artist: pierre jean david d'angers
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1788 – 1856
Subjects: men,profiles

Pierre-Jean David d’Angers was the most prolific and one of the most important French sculptors of the first half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his almost fifty-year career (1819–1856) David remained true to his conviction that sculptural monuments dedicated to the achievements of great men and women most permanently and vividly express the greatness of a people. He continuously sought commissions for monuments portraying historical and contemporary figures whom he admired in order to commit their contributions to posterity. His most famous public commission, the figurative pediment of the Pantheon in Paris (1830–1837), which commemorates great men and was dedicated by a grateful nation, exemplifies these life-long principles. David d’Angers extended his definition of public monuments to include portrait medallions. In the 1820s he dedicated himself to a personal campaign of creating contemporary and retrospective medallic portraits of illustrious sitters. By the end of his life David had executed almost five-hundred portrait medallions, frequently travelling great distances to model his sitters from life. The medallions most often were not commissioned. David himself chose whom he deemed worthy of inclusion into his medallic pantheon. David also did not profit from the portraits. He generally delivered his wax models to professional founders for casting and dissemination through sale.
Ball Dress of Blonde Lace
Object type: womenswear
Date: 1815 – 1820
Materials: silk
Techniques: lace
Artist: Anonymous

Lace had been out of fashion since the French revolution. However, it regained its popularity when Napoleon decreed it should be worn at court in 1804. This dress is made of hand-made silk bobbin lace known as ‘blonde’. The name is derived from the often light colour of the silk from which it was often made. The material is very fragile, and dresses made of it are exceedingly rare.
Flat Rectangular Plaque
Object type: plaque
Materials: copper alloy
Culture: frankish
Location: northern france
La lecture
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1783
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: reading, lectern ~ reading
Inscriptions: number: ‘3’, collector's mark: Lugt 4779, collector's mark: Lugt 4780

Man in kamerjas en muts op het hoofd, staand voor lezenaar. Hij leest een boek getiteld 'La Chasse heureuse'. Aan de zijkant van de lezenaar hangt een masker. Aan de voeten van de man slaapt een hond.
Holyrood Palace
Object type: photograph
Date: 1834 – 1866
Techniques: albumen print
Location: scotland
Artist: g. w. wilson
Artist nationality: scottish
Artist dates: 1823 – 1893
Sampler
Object type: sampler
Date: 1837 – 1837
Materials: wool
Console table
Object type: console table
Date: 1740 – 1740
Materials: marble, wood
Techniques: carving, gilding
Cicilia met bloemen
Object type: calligraphy
Date: 1654 – 1654
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, calligraphy
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690

Staande herderin naast gedicht dat het contrast beschrijft tussen de liefde van Cicilia en Floriaen en die van Clorinde en de herder-verteller; op de melodie van Siet Cupido swijren.
Two Sleeping Children With Three Sheep
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1800
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: pierre alexandre aveline
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1702 – 1760
Subjects: sleeping,children,sheep
Monnik begroet de Heilige Hyacinthus van Polen
Object type: print
Date: 1595 – 1600
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: venice
Artist: johann sadeler (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1550 – 1600
Subjects: monk(s), friar(s), the dominican friar hyacinth(us) of poland; possible attributes: book, lily, monstrance (or ciborium), statue of the virgin
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

H. Hyacinthus van Polen wordt begroet door een monnik. Hij knielt en neemt de hand van de heilige vast. Op de achtergrond een stad. De prent maakt deel uit van een achttiendelige serie die een kader vormt rondom een afbeelding van de H. Hyacinthus van Polen.
Bowl with Pagodas and Landscape Elements
Object type: bowl
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: glaze, stonepaste
Techniques: painting
Location: iran
Subjects: towers,flowers

Objects like this bowl were typically displayed in open niches in reception rooms of upper-class Syrian residences during the Ottoman period
Maffet Ledger: Drawing
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1881
Materials: crayon, graphite, paper, watercolor
Culture: cheyenne
Location: united states
Subjects: firearms,men
The Triumph of Virtues: Justice, Peace and Abundance
Object type: plaquette
Date: 1576 – 1600
Materials: lead
Subjects: men,lions,chariots
Takje met een bloem van de Corydalis
Object type: drawing
Date: 1874 – 1874
Materials: oil, paper
Techniques: brush
Artist: d. van alphen
Artist role: draughtsman
Subjects: flowers: corydalis
Inscriptions: date: ‘1874’
Blouse
Object type: blouse
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: cotton, linen
Brief aan August Allebé
Object type: letter
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: bussum
Artist: jan veth
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1925
Subjects: amsterdam, print maker, draughtsman, august allebé, drawing, the graphic arts, money, printed matter
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’, watermark
Portret van James Dromgole Linton
Object type: page
Date: 1885 – 1890
Materials: paper
Techniques: carbon print
Location: london
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: address: ‘57 & 61, Ebury Street, London.’
Ribbon
Object type: ribbon
Date: 1834 – 1866
Materials: silk
Subjects: animals,trees
Hunting Dog in Woods
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, crayon, paper
Location: england
Artist: james barenger, the younger
Portret van Robert Hendrik Arntzenius
Object type: print
Date: 1797 – 1836
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: haarlem
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Robert Hendrik Arntzenius, classicus, dichter en jurist te Amsterdam.
Fashion plate
Object type: fashion plate
Date: 1798 – 1798
Materials: paper
Culture: british
Artist: nicolaus heideloff
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1761 – 1837
Diverse nieuwe cartouches
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1640 – 1674
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: auricular ornament, lobe style ~ ornament, ornament ~ cartouche
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Tobacco Box
Object type: box
Date: 1730 – 1740
Materials: silver
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: samuel burrill
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1704 – 1740
Subjects: coat of arms
Stockholm. Kungl. Operan och Jakobs kyrka
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1910
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, writing
Location: stockholm
Subjects: church (exterior), opera house
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘C. N:s Lj.’
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene
Object type: stamp seal
Date: 734 – 601
Materials: stone
Culture: assyrian
Location: mesopotamia
Subjects: men,dogs
Close-Up of Crater Copernicus
Object type: photograph
Materials: photographic print
Artist: national aeronautics and space administration (nasa)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: moon,astronomy

This photograph was made as part of the Lunar Orbiter program, a series of five unmanned spacecraft launched into orbit around the Moon in 1966 and 1967. Each spacecraft was equipped with a sophisticated imaging system provided by Eastman Kodak, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, film processing and handling units, and a readout scanner for transmitting the images back to Earth. The main purpose of the program was to select lunar landing sites for NASA’s manned Apollo Missions. Over the course of one year, the Lunar Orbiters photographed 99 percent of the Moon’s surface, producing more than 2,000 images of unprecedented clarity and precision. After the film was processed on board the spacecraft, it was scanned in strips and transmitted to Earth via radio. Technicians at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, created the final images by transferring the strips onto sheets of large-format film, from which prints were produced. This print comes from the collection of George Keene, an optical engineer who headed the team responsible for reconstructing the Lunar Orbiter images in Rochester.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, framing border of tondo; Exterior, lower body of draped male
Uitdelen van de hostie
Object type: print
Date: 1493 – 1493
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: thomas distributes the eucharist

De houtsnede wordt gebruikt als boekillustratie in de Liber Chronicarum (of Neurenbergkroniek) van Hartmann Schedel, verschenen in het Latijn en Duits in 1493. Zie de Duitse en Latijnse uitgave, folio 197v.
Wordworth's tomb, Grasmere church-yard
Object type: page
Date: 1854 – 1864
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: grasmere
Artist: thomas ogle
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: grave, tomb, churchyard (around church)
Vijftigjarig bestaan van de Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas 1922
Object type: history medal
Date: 1922 – 1922
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Artist: henri nocq
Inscriptions: hallmark: ‘ARGENT (tussen twee tekens)’

Zilveren penning, op de voorzijde een zittende vrouw met een hoorn des overvloeds waartegen de gekroonde wapenschilden van Nederand en Parijs, op de achtergrond een gezicht op Parijs, op de keerzijde vier regels tekst met links een cartouche met opschrift waarachter een mercuriusstaf, motieven uit land- en tuinbouw en een driemaster op zee, met afsnedetekst.
Graaf Dirk van Beusichem
Object type: drawing
Date: 1590 – 1593
Materials: paint, gouache, ink, parchment, watercolor
Techniques: writing
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: culemborg, heren en graven van, heren van beusichem, dirk graaf van beusichem, culemborg

Dirk, graaf van Beusichem (Boesinchem). Staande ten voeten uit, het wapen van Beusichem aan een lint in de rechterhand. Onderdeel van geïllustreerd handschrift met de genealogie van de heren en graven van Culemborg.
Voorraadfles met vierkant lichaam
Object type: miniature
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: glass, wax
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Q.Eff.di Vette di Cedro’

Voorraadfles van helder kleurloos glas, vierkant lichaam met hals en ronde wijduitstaande mondrand. De fles draagt een etiket met het opschrift: 'Q.Eff.di Vette di Cedro'. In de fles resten van een vettige substantie. De fles is afgedicht met een prop was.
Standing Male Figure; Male Figure on a Horse (from Sketchbook)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1811 – 1893
Materials: graphite, ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Culture: american
Artist: john william casilear
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1811 – 1893
Subjects: men,horses
Portret van Stephan Maréchal
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, celluloid, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: nantes
Artist: louis martin
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates:  – 1925
Subjects: boy (child between toddler and youth), historical persons
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Les Clichés sont conservés’, address: ‘12 Rue Boileau/ NANTES’
Box with cover
Object type: box with cover
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: ivory
Culture: chinese
Subjects: flowers
Cabinet des Modes ou les Modes Nouvelles, 1 Juin 1786, pl. III
Object type: print
Date: 1786 – 1786
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: paris
Subjects: fashion plates
Design for a Pendant with St. George and the Dragon
Object type: drawing
Date: 1889 – 1889
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: otto seitz
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1846 – 1912
Subjects: pendants,horses
Locomotief voor een goederentrein
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1885
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: locomotive
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Société de St. Léonard (Outils) Liége (Belgique)’
Terracotta fragment of a calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Object type: calyx krater fragment
Date: 460 – 450
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Lower body of a draped male to left
Illustraties voor fabelvertellingen van Phaedrus
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1769 – 1769
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: simon fokke
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1712 – 1784
Subjects: fables
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Struikrovers slaan een bepakte muilezel met stokken en stelen de goederen die het beest op zijn rug vervoert. Deze illustratie is vervaardigd bij de Aesopische fabels van de Latijnse dichter Phaedrus.
Veelkleurig beschilderde pot van faïence
Object type: pot
Date: 1720 – 1740
Materials: faience
Location: delft
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Collection J.F. Loudon’, mark: ‘513’, mark: ‘64’

Pot van faïence. Veelkleurig beschilderd met chinese huizen en bloemendecoratie.
Cruet Stand
Object type: cruet stand
Date: 1765 – 1776
Materials: silver
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: myer myers
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1723 – 1795

Quintessentially rococo is this frame to hold condiment containers for the dinner table. Sugar, pepper, and other spices would have been dispensed from silver casters and oil and vinegar from glass cruets. Most silver cruet stands used in America were imported from England and were equipped, as is this New York example, with a central openwork handle, shell feet, and an asymmetrical cartouche for an engraved armorial or script monogram.