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Jan de II. Verwoestende de stad Vroonen
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1702
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: pieter van den berge
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, printer, publisher
Artist dates: 1659 – 1737
Subjects: jan ii (graaf van holland), vronen, nederland tijdens de late middeleeuwen

Illustratie in: H. Soeteboom, Oud-heden van Zaan-land, Stavoren, Vronen en Waterland : deze laatste druk ... met nodige aanteekeningen, figuren, en een landkaart verrykt / Vroonens Begin Midden en Eynde, W. Linnig van Koppenol, Amsterdam 1702, dl. 2, ingebonden tussen p. 170/171.
S.O. Goenoengsari. Ketelfundaties. 3 December 1926.
Object type: photograph
Date: 1912 – 1926
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: east java
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: colonial system, trade-company, making the overground structures (~ building activities), industrial structures, (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: sugarcane, representation of real building (either existing or having existed)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘S.O. Goenoengsari. Ketelfundaties. 3 December 1926.’

De fundamenten van gewapend beton voor het ketelstation, 3 december 1926. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum met foto's van de opbouw van de suikerfabriek te Goenoengsari op Oost-Java door de Handels Vereniging Amsterdam 1926-1927.
Candlestick
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1910 – 1910
Materials: bronze, glass
Techniques: casting, leading
Location: corona
Artist: tiffany studios
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1902 – 1932
Subjects: candleholder, root
Inscriptions: Struck, leg bottom, middle: Tiffany Studios / New York  1200
Portret van Robert Smirke
Object type: print
Date: 1779 – 1839
Materials: paper
Techniques: printmaking, etching
Artist: william daniell
Artist role: artist, print maker
Artist dates: 1769 – 1839
Subjects: historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of architect
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Koppen van een vrouw
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1897 – 1898
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: head (human)

Blad 9 verso uit een schetsboek met 29 bladen.
Reisalbum Nederlands-Indië
Object type: scrapbook
Date: 1930 – 1940
Materials: cardboard, leather, paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: dutch east indies
Artist: adeline andrea. du celliée muller
Artist dates: 1899 – 
Subjects: animal traction, animal-drawn vehicle (carriage etc.), places and objects of worship ~ hinduism, buddhism, jainism, portrait of dancer, sawahs, rice paddies, ploughing, dutch east indies, the

Fotoalbum met 24 pagina's met in totaal 12 foto's. Alle foto's zijn gemaakt in Nederlands-Indië. Het album bevat foto's van onder meer de Borobudur, werk op rijstvelden en portretten van dansers en danseressen. Los voorin het album zit een vel met toelichtingen op de foto's.
Primer with Cord
Object type: primer with cord
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silver, skin, textile
Culture: turkish
Location: ottoman empire
A Stable, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"
Object type: print
Date: 1852 – 1852
Techniques: engraving
Artist: charles émile jacque
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1813 – 1894
Vrouw lopend op klompen
Object type: print
Date: 1877 – 1947
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: herman antonius van daalhoff
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1953
Subjects: wooden shoes, clogs, walking - aa - female human figure
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Gold aureus of Augustus
Object type: aureus of augustus
Date: 20 – 19
Materials: gold
Culture: roman
Subjects: emperor augustus,profiles,coins

Head of Augustus, oak-wreathed, r./CAESAR AVGVSTVS above and below laurel branches flanking SPQR around a shield inscribed CL V
Gezicht op daken met een schoorsteen, op de achtergrond een kerk
Object type: print
Date: 1862 – 1908
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: piet verhaert
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1852 – 1908
Subjects: roof (of house or building), housing, church (exterior)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘3 exempl 1 eta’

Mogelijk gaat het om de Sint-Pauluskerk te Antwerpen.
Koppen van een kind
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1928 – 1928
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: head (human), child

Blad 6 recto uit een schetsboek met 12 bladen.
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 1810 – 1820
Materials: linen
Culture: american

"There is only one way for the moderns to become great and perhaps unequalled: by imitating the Ancients," declared Johann Joachim Winckelmann, prophet and propagandist for Neoclassicism. New democracies, with their idealism, were vehemently and visibly expressed in quotidian form in statuary-emulating dress.
Plaque in the Form of a Female Figure (Study Collction)
Object type: plaque
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: terracotta
Culture: pakistani
Subjects: gandhara
A Rake's Progress, Plate 1
Object type: print
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: william hogarth
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1697 – 1764
Subjects: men,women,working
Brooch
Object type: brooch
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: enamel, gold
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: marcus and co.
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1892 – 1942
Subjects: human figures,scarabs
Gift Cloth
Object type: gift cloth
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal thread, silk
Culture: japanese
Subjects: dragons
Portret van James Bentham
Object type: print
Date: 1812 – 1812
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Comb
Object type: comb
Date: 1830 – 1849
Materials: shell
Culture: argentinean
Subjects: leaves
Gustave Wappers, schilder te Antwerpen en Willem Geefs, beeldhouwer
Object type: history medal
Date: 1835 – 1835
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: belgium
Artist: adolphe jouvenel
Artist dates: 1798 – 1867
Subjects: sculptor, willem geefs, antwerp, paris, draughtsman, gustave wappers

Bronzen penning. Voorzijde: borststukken van twee mannen binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: jaartal binnenlauwerkrans
National Holiday
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Artist: félix hilaire buhot
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1847 – 1898
Suite de Huit Petites Pièces
Object type: print
Date: 1823 – 1823
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: covered wagon, hooded wagon, horse
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 789a

Een uitgespannen trekpaard eet zijn voer uit een zak die om zijn nek hangt. De huifkar staat achter hem. Een man en een vrouw staan bij de deuropening van een huis.
Hunters with Dead Game in a Landscape
Object type: drawing
Date: 1600 – 1800
Materials: chalk, gouache, ink, paper
Techniques: brush
Artist: giovanni agostino cassana
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1665 – 1720
Subjects: birds,men,dogs,horses,trees
Albumblad met twee foto's van vrouwen op straat in New York
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1926 – 1926
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: new york city
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: street, new york (city)

Albumblad met twee foto's van vrouwen op straat.
Bowl with Boys Playing amid Peony Flowers
Object type: vessel
Materials: metal, porcelain
Techniques: underglaze
Location: china
Anthony's photographic bulletin
Object type: book
Date: 1893 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Location: new york city
Cloak Pin (Knob or Tieback)
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: brass, copper, enamel, iron
Techniques: polychrome, transfer
Location: england
Johann Matthaeus Tesdorpf d.R.Dr.
Object type: print
Date: 1823 – 1823
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: hamburg
Subjects: politician, adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Landschap bij Nevers
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1871 – 1871
Materials: chalk, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: nevers
Artist: johan barthold jongkind
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1819 – 1891
Subjects: landscapes in the temperate zone
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘nevers 25 sept 71’
Kop van hond
Object type: print
Date: 1869 – 1927
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: eduard cuypers
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1859 – 1927
Subjects: dog
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Grenier
Object type: photograph
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print, photography
Location: france
Artist: hippolyte bayard
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1801 – 1887
Subjects: collected by hugh edwards
Pair of lappets and joined cap edging
Object type: lappet and cap edging
Date: 1701 – 1733
Techniques: lace
The Ship "Macon"
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1828 – 1835
Materials: board, gold paint, gouache, graphite, gum arabic, ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Culture: american
Artist: nivelet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1780 – 1880
Subjects: ships
Artois atrebatum regionis vera descriptio
Object type: map
Date: 1612 – 1648
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: joannes van doetechum (ii)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1558 – 1630
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Deze staat van prent voor het eerst ook gebruikt in: Guicciardini, Lodovico. Beschryvinghe van alle de Neder-landen, anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt (…). Amsterdam: Willem Janszoon Blaeu, 1612.

Hierna is deze prent tot 1648 nog gebruikt in latere uitgaven van deze publicatie, uitgegeven door Blaeu en daarna door Janssonius. Uit welke uitgave het huidige exemplaar precies komt is niet na te gaan.
Tankard
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1785 – 1785
Materials: ceramic, enamel, hard paste porcelain, porcelain
Techniques: gilding, polychrome
Location: jingdezhen
Inscriptions: Mark: script initials "RAC" in black
The Fool and the Foolish Woman
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: sebald beham
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1500 – 1550
Fruit Seller, Batavia
Object type: photograph
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: fruit,men,portraits
Textile Fragment
Object type: textile fragment
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: linen, silk
Techniques: brocade, weave
Location: egypt

This fragment consists of undyed linen weave with brocade in black silk. The pattern is of zigzag bands that create diamonds around them, into which a diamond-shaped form is inserted. Apart from the thick, distinctive black outlines, black silk is also used to create a dotted ground in the bands and the diamond-shaped form. The regularity of the repeating pattern suggests that the original fabric may have been a larger piece, perhaps a bolt of textile.
Théologie
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1863
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Subjects: cross as symbol of christ, monk(s), friar(s)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een van de twee monniken wijst naar een houten kruis op een heuvel. Twee vrouwen en een jongen kijken ernaar.
Bois exposés à l'action du Taret au port des Sables-d'Olonne
Object type: photograph
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: b. crolet
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: worms, wood, timber ~ building material
Inscriptions: signature: ‘B. Crolet’, annotation: ‘Pin des Landes injecté au sulfate de Cuivre/ (...) 10 fevrier 1864.’, number: ‘Pl. X.’
Fragment of a faience plaque with inscription
Object type: fragment of a faience plaque with inscription
Date: 1764 – 1759
Materials: faience
Location: egypt

This lower part of a plaque is inscribed on both sides with kheperu, which is enclosed in a rectangle. The top of the rectangle is missing and could have contained two djed signs, forming the Horus name of King Khendjer.
The Mansion House
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1850 – 1919
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: european views
Artist role: publisher
Subjects: buildings
Shoulder Guards (<i>Sode</i>)
Object type: shoulder guard i sode i
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: brass, gold, iron, lacquer, leather, silk, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 460 – 450
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, meander and cross square ornament; Exterior, lower legs and of figure to left; part of circumscribed handle palmette
Frederick Henry and Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz at the Siege of ’s Hertogenbosch
Object type: painting
Date: 1629 – 1635
Materials: oil, panel
Artist: pauwels van hillegaert
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1596 – 1658
Subjects: the hague, frederick henry (prince of orange), ernst casimir graaf van nassau-dietz, riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, siege, baton of general, den bosch

Prince Frederick Henry and his cousin Count Ernst Casimir pose triumphantly on their horses before
’s-Hertogenbosch. Frederick Henry points his commander’s staff at the Habsburg-occupied city now being stormed by Dutch forces. It was not for nothing that he was nicknamed ‘the conqueror of cities’. He captured a series of cites from the Spanish. The retaking of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in 1629 was one of the most important.
A Lioness and a Caricature of Ingres
Object type: drawing
Date: 1850 – 1859
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: eugène delacroix
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1798 – 1863
Subjects: lions

This drawing likely dates from a period in which tensions between Delacroix and his rival Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres were particularly high. In the 1840s, critics increasingly cast the two artists as adversaries with opposing styles, and their respective solo exhibitions at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris amplified the sense of competition. Delacroix also blamed Ingres for blocking his election to the Institut de France, the nation’s premier learned society—a post he eventually achieved in 1857. Here, he inserts at left an acerbic caricature of Ingres in profile, demonstrating the incisiveness he could achieve in pen and ink.
Saucer (part of a service)
Object type: saucer
Date: 1750 – 1770
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Subjects: birds,women,flowers
Zomertortel (Streptopelia turtur)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1596 – 1610
Materials: paint, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Subjects: other birds: dove

Zomertortel, vroeger bekend als tortelduif. Genummerd rechtsboven: 24. Onderdeel van het eerste album met tekeningen van vogels. Derde 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.
Bybelsche historiën. IV
Object type: popular print
Date: 1761 – 1804
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: old testament
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 24 voorstellingen uit het Oude Testament, waaronder Simson doodt de leeuw, Samuël zalft David tot koning en de Tempel van Salomo. Onder elke afbeelding een onderschrift. Genummerd linksboven: No. 96.
De twaalf maanden van het jaar verbeeld in scènes uit het volksleven
Object type: print
Date: 1600 – 1649
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: low countries
Subjects: march and its 'labours', aries (zodical sign of march), ploughing, low countries

Ronde voorstelling met de maand maart. Een ploegende boer en werken aan de wijnranken, ca. 1600. Met het teken van de Ram. Met randschrift in het Latijn. Prent nr. 3 in de serie van de twaalf maanden van het jaar verbeeld in scènes uit het volksleven.
Maan- en eclipswijzer
Object type: print
Date: 1695 – 1695
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: northern netherlands
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Cirkelvormige aanduiding van de stand van de maan op de verschillende dagen van het jaar.
Design for One Quarter of a Ceiling with a Medallion at the Center (recto); Design for a Quarter of a Ceiling with a Medallion at the Corner and a Medallion at the Center (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: graphite
Artist: leonardo marini
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1730 – 1797
Subjects: ceilings
Vue générale
Object type: photograph
Date: 1887 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: saint-cloud
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘St Cloud.’, number: ‘719’

Tussen 1887 en ca. 1900 werkten Neurdein frères onder andere onder de naam 'X phot.'.
Mlle. Nordrum, 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.
Op de heide
Object type: print
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: farmers - aa - female farmer, farmer's wife, storing in sacks ~ harvest
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘1e staat’
Eerste oorlogsdag: Volendamse meisjes.
Object type: photograph
Date: 1940 – 1940
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: photography
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: soldiers and civilians, amsterdam

Op de eerste dag van de oorlog lopen geëvacueerde Volendamse meisjes over het Damrak. Tekststrookje aan foto geplakt.
Gezicht op de Chinese stad Nanjing
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1670 – 1671
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: river, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city, china
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: Montanus, Arnoldus. Atlas Chinensis: Being a Second Part of a Relation of Remarkable Passages in two Embassies (...). Londen: Thomas Johnson, 1671, p. 284-285.
Of: Dapper, Olfert. Gedenkwaerdig bedryf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische maetschappye, op de kuste en in het keizerrijk van Taising of Sina (...). Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1670, p. 308-309.
Width
Object type: width
Date: 1820 – 1830
Materials: cotton
Subjects: flowers
Toen ik op Neerlands bergen stond
Object type: print
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: nelly bodenheim
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1874 – 1951
Subjects: wedding ring, landscape with tower or castle, lamb, proposal, declaration of love
Inscriptions: date

Een staande vrouw biedt een trouwring aan aan een man in harnas die op een bank bij een boom zit. Op de achtergrond twee lammeren, de ommuring van een kasteel en een zeilboot in het water. Om het tafereel plantmotieven en eronder de tekst: 'En sprak: mijn heer stout ruitertjen. Hier hebt gij den trouwring van mij. En dien trouwring schenk ik jou'.
Portret van een man met baard
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1884 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: niesky
Artist: a.h. johannson
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: historical persons, beard
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Atelier/ für / PHOTOGRAPHIE/ von./ A.H. Johannson/ Niesky/ Oedernitzer-Str. 10./ 1884./ Die Platte bleibt reservirt./ Von umstehender Aufnahme/ künnen Bilder bis zur Lebens/ (...)’
Scherven van borden uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'
Object type: sherd
Date: 1613 – 1613
Materials: bone china
Location: jingdezhen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, sint-helena

Scherven van borden uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte Leeuw'.
Tannhäuser: Venusberg
Object type: print
Date: 1876 – 1876
Materials: chine, ivory, paper, stone
Techniques: lithograph, scraping
Location: france
Artist: henri fantin-latour
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1836 – 1904

Richard Wagner's opera Tannhaüser was first interpreted by Henri Fantin-Latour in 1862. This second revised version of Venusberg was Fantin-Latour's first attempt at transfer lithography, a printing method in which the artist's drawing is transferred directly onto a lithographic stone. Here, Tannhaüser is depicted in Venus's realm of sensual delights. Nymphs dance to the music of a flute player, and Venus reclines upon Tannhaüser's lap, gazing passionately into his eyes.
Capri, 1904 (from Sketchbook)
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1904 – 1904
Materials: graphite, paper, watercolor
Culture: american
Artist: mary newbold sargent
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1826 – 1906
Subjects: hills
Steerage Emigrants, from "The Graphic," vol. 1
Object type: print
Techniques: engraving
Artist: arthur boyd houghton
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, born india
Artist dates: 1836 – 1875
Subjects: men
Le Grand Duc Fait Fortifier le Port de Livourne (The Grand Duke Fortifying the Port of Livourne), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Batailles des Médicis" (The Life of Ferdinand I de'Medici also called The Medici Battles)
Object type: print
Date: 1614 – 1620
Techniques: engraving
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635

According to the inscription on the second state of the prints in this series, Callot's engravings are after designs by Matteo Rosselli. Mariette attributes the designs of the prints in the series to Rosselli, Bernardino Poccetti, and possibly Antonio Tempesta.
Studie, mogelijk van een boot
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1903 – 1903
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: amsterdam
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: ships (in general)
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven

Studie, mogelijk van een boot. Pagina 11 uit een schetsboek met 46 bladen.
Terracotta fragments of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)
Object type: psykter fragment
Date: 520 – 500
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

One fragment depicts part of the lower torso, genitals, right hip, left thigh, left elbow, forearm, and hand of a youth to right; tendrils and part of circumscribed palmette from ornament; the second fragment shows, the left hand of a figure holding a lyre and part of a circumscribed palmette, the start of the lug of the psykter, and four fronds of a palmette and tendrils; a third fragment has two fronds and tendrils; a fourth fragment has two fronds from a palmette
Scarab
Object type: scarab
Date: 1492 – 1479
Materials: paste
Location: egypt
Subjects: hieroglyphs,scarabs
Jade Pots of Ice
Object type: ink tablet
Date: 1867 – 1933
Materials: gilt, wood
Techniques: bookbinding
Culture: chinese
Artist: jian guzhai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese

This ink tablet is from a sixty-four-tablet set (30.76.216–.279) commissioned by the Jiaqing emperor from the Studio for Appreciating the Antique (Jiangu Zhai) manufactory of the Wang Jinsheng family in Huizhou, Anhui Province. Each ink tablet commemorates a hall or pavilion in one of the imperial gardens. Each site’s name is written in gilt characters on one side; a view of the site is presented on the other. Such inks were purely decorative and not intended for use.