deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Terrestrial globe
Object type: globe
Date: 1645 – 1648
Materials: copper, gypsum, paper, wood
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam

Both Blaeus, father and son, were world famous cartographers. The globes that they made were real showpieces. Naturally, they included the latest discoveries of distant lands, and colonies such as ‘Nieu Nederland’ (New York). Yet there were still unexplored territories in the world. Only a small section of the Australian coast had been charted – by Dutchmen, as the name ‘Hollandia Nova’ indicates.
Finger Ring
Object type: ring
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: bone, copper alloy, gilt, glass, paste
Culture: frankish
Location: northern france
Notitie
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1807 – 1876
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: handschuhsheim
Artist: geo poggenbeek
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1853 – 1903
Inscriptions: date and inscription: ‘6/ Handschu chsheim/ 4/7’

Blad 18 verso uit een schetsboek met 69 bladen.
Ball gown
Object type: ball gown
Date: 1856 – 1856
Materials: cotton, silk
Culture: american
v. d. Schulenburg'sches Epitaphium in der St. Catharinenkirche
Object type: page
Date: 1893 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: dresden
Subjects: interior of church, epitaph
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 72.’
Londen
Object type: opticaprent
Date: 1753 – 1753
Materials: cardboard, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, etching
Location: london
Subjects: church (exterior), city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), london
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

De serie “Londen” bevat 52 prenten met de nummers 1-52, waarvan dit nummer 2 is.
IIe Volume De l'Oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1771 – 1771
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: tripod, pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee geornamenteerde Athéniennes (driepoten) met vuur aan weerszijden van een voetstuk met vazen en bucraniums.
Tenor Cornetto in D
Object type: tenor cornetto in d
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: leather, metal, wood
Culture: french
Location: france

An S-shape tenor cornetto with a thumb hole and an open C-key. Made of two wooden halves with leather wrapping. The horn ring and mouthpiece are not original. Although we usually think of horns as being made of brass, the oldest and simplest of these instruments were commonly made of animal horn. The conical shape of animal horns used as signal or ritual instruments was retained in more sophisticated horns of metal and wood. The term "cornetto" comes from the Latin, "cornu" (horn), while "shofar" is related to the Sumerian name for a male goat of ibex. The falconer's horn and shofar produce only a few pitches, while the fingerholes of the bukkehorn and cornetto allow melodic playing.
Portret van Guillaume Dupuytren
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1101 – 1300
Materials: stonepaste
Techniques: luster painting
Location: iran
Subjects: men,horses
Eclectus Roratus Polychloros
Object type: drawing
Date: 1830 – 1832
Materials: chalk, gouache, graphite, watercolor
Artist: edward lear
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1812 – 1888
Subjects: parrots

Known as a landscape painter and a writer of nonsense verse, Lear began his career as an ornithological draftsman. This work records male and female Eclectus parrots, a species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia. The bird is unique for its distinct plumage-predominantly green in males, red and blue in females. The design was made for one of the lithographs in "Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots," the first book devoted to a single bird species, which the artist published between 1830 and 1832. Preparatory to making the prints, Lear sketched live specimens and bird skins at the London Zoological Society, then transferred selected images to lithographic stones for printing. The final step was to color the prints by hand.
Kan, o lieve jeugd! deez' prent uw oog vermaken, / En doet u dit nu reeds naar 't zeemans leven haken. / Bevalt u dan deez' stand studeer dan ook met vlijt, / Want 't is doorgaans een deel, voor uwen levenstijd
Object type: print
Date: 1836 – 1849
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: rotterdam
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, ships (in general)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 4 horizontale rijen met voorstellingen van schepen. Onder elke voorstelling een vier- of zesregelig. Genummerd linksonder: 21.
Dorp in een landschap
Object type: print
Date: 1620 – 1620
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: claes jansz. visscher (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1586 – 1652
Subjects: herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., village street
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Gezicht op een glooiend landschap met een dorp waar een weg doorheen voert. Op de voorgrond zit een herder met zijn kudde.
Bracelet, One of a Pair
Object type: bracelet
Date: 1601 – 1900
Materials: gold, silver
Location: india
Fiddler, Sailor, Two Women and a Pig by a Cottage
Object type: print
Date: 1816 – 1816
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: men,women,dogs,pigs,musicians
Club (Gugu)
Object type: club
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: wood
Culture: fijian
Location: fiji
Centrum der voornaamste restauratiën
Object type: print
Date: 1883 – 1883
Materials: paper
Techniques: chromolithography
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: world fair, world exhibition, amsterdam

Gezicht op de restauratie en muziektent op de Wereldtentoonstelling op het Museumplein te Amsterdam. Onderdeel van een groep van zestien platen en een plattegrond van de Wereldtentoonstelling in Amsterdam van 1 mei tot 1 oktober 1883. Uitgave van het Nieuws van den Dag.
Evening dress
Object type: evening dress
Date: 1893 – 1893
Materials: metal, silk, wool
Culture: american

This is high style dress of the period when sleeves were getting larger with each season. The unique embroidery is distinctive and representative of the overt extravagance applied in this period.
Road near La Côte-Saint-André
Object type: drawing
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: chalk, watercolor
Artist: johan barthold jongkind
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1819 – 1891
Subjects: roads,landscapes,trees
Landschap met tempelruïne in ovale lijst
Object type: drawing
Date: 1640 – 1662
Materials: chalk, paper
Subjects: landscape with ruins
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Patel’
Portret van Sophie Charlotte van Hannover
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, queen, empress, etc. (wife of a ruler)
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 414’

Met eenregelig onderschrift in het Duits.
Mr. Feathersanall, Lodger, Asks for a Little Wood (from Sketchbook)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1854 – 1855
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Culture: american
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Subjects: men,profiles
Portret van William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck en Edward Bentinck
Object type: print
Date: 1711 – 1774
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: london
Subjects: historical person in a double portrait, politician, e.g. party leader, brothers (second degree family relationships)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Fogerty, Right Field, Philadelphia, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

From the Old Judge Cigarettes series N173, 1887-1889. Series consists of 407 cabinet cards total, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art owns 152. Issued by Goodwin & Company, New York.
Ring
Object type: ring
Date: 670 – 330
Materials: glass
Culture: roman
Conceptbrief aan Hugh Blaker
Object type: letter
Date: 1917 – 1918
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Artist: andries bonger
Artist role: kunstverzamelaar
Artist dates: 1861 – 1936
Subjects: hugh blaker, painter, draughtsman, odilon redon, lille, paris, print maker, émile bernard
Inscriptions: watermark

De conceptbrief betreft een reactie op een dispuut over Paul Cézanne in The Burlington Magazine. De conceptbrief bevat de betreffende artikelen (uit november 1917 en oktober 1918) overgeschreven door Andries Bonger.
Portret van Johann Samuel Fest
Object type: print
Date: 1795 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Gezicht op een straat (vermoedelijk) te Frankrijk
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1860 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: street
Inscriptions: number: ‘281’, inscription: ‘Rodr[...] 46’
Ex libris van Marianne Parma
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1914 – 1914
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: austria
Artist: alfred cossmann
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1870 – 1951
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, giving drink, fruits
Inscriptions: date
Boom met laaghangende takken
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1924 – 1925
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: india
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: trees, sitting figure
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven

Mogelijk de ficus benghalensis, oftewel bodhiboom. Op de achtergrond twee zittende figuren. Pagina 7 uit een schetsboek met 87 bladen.
Le Glorieux, fou du duc de Bourgogne
Object type: print
Date: 1826 – 1826
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: stage costume, actor (on the stage), tragedy
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Tiel Wetzweiler, de nar van Karel de Stoute, is een personage uit 'Quentin Durward' van Sir Walter Scott. Op dit boek is het toneelstuk 'Louis XI à Péronne' gebaseerd. Wetzweiler wordt ook wel 'Le Glorieux' (de Roemrijke) genoemd.
Portret van paus Gregorius XVI
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Subjects: rome, historical persons (+ (full) bust portrait)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De geportretteerde zit op een stoel en kijkt naar links. Hij draagt zijn ambtsgewaad, afgezet met bont en een stola.
Lepel van grijze en gele agaat
Object type: spoon
Date: 1600 – 1699
Materials: stone
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous

Lepel met een ovale bak van grijze agaat en een steel, met haakvormig uiteinde, van gele agaat. Beide delen zijn verbonden door een verguld zilveren band met gestampt ornament.
Shoulder Band Fragment
Object type: shoulder band fragment
Date: 401 – 500
Materials: linen, wool
Techniques: weave
Location: egypt
Het Bosch
Object type: print
Date: 1788 – 1788
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: theatre, theatrical performance, stage design
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Toneelvoorstelling in de nieuwe Amsterdamse Schouwburg met het coulissendecor Het Bosch, met scène uit De Bruiloft van Kloris en Roosje. Het decor gedrukt van een aparte plaat binnen een passe-partout met de zaal, zijloges, pilaren met standbeelden en de façade van het toneel. In het onderschrift een zesregelig vers. Onderdeel van de serie van veertien toneeldecors van de nieuwe Amsterdamse Schouwburg, 1787-1794. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Schoone kunsten, Tooneel, Decors voor de Schouwburg.
Snuff Bottle
Object type: snuff bottle
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: amber
Culture: chinese
Subjects: dragons
Angel
Object type: crèche figure
Date: 1767 – 1833
Materials: silk, terracotta, fiber, velvet, metal
Techniques: polychrome
Subjects: angels
Op het overbrengen van het vaandel der Compagnie de Swarte Knegten te Utrecht onder bevel van kapitein J. Van Dam naar Mr. W.W. du Pon
Object type: history medal
Date: 1759 – 1779
Materials: silver
Artist: johann conrad marmé
Artist role: die cutter
Artist dates: 1710 – 1772
Male Figure
Object type: painting
Materials: ink, silk
Techniques: cutting
Location: japan
Artist: miyagawa chōshun
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1683 – 1753
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, right foot; lower drapery, stick, and feet of a second figure; Exterior, lower drapery and feet of figure; draped youth; aryballos suspended by strap, sponge, strigil; foot, stick, and part of lower drapery of a third figure
Koffiebomen met vrucht, Sumatra (reifer Kaffee)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1885 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: sumatra
Artist: carl j. kleingrothe
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1864 – 1925
Subjects: sumatra

Gezicht op een veld met koffiebomen met vruchten (vermoedelijk te Bandar Kwalla op landbouwonderneming Bandar Koeala in Serdang in de Oostkust van Sumatra). Onderdeel van het Sumatra fotoalbum van Paul en Lucie Sandel uit 1900.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Donors
Object type: painting
Date: 1360 – 1365
Materials: gold leaf, paint, wood
Artist: lorenzo veneziano
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1356 – 1372
Subjects: birds,men,madonna and child

Lorenzo Veneziano, the preeminent Venetian painter of the second half of the fourteenth century, may have trained in the workshop of Paolo Veneziano, a celebrated artist rooted in the Byzantine tradition, to which Venice and its art were so closely tied. Lorenzo was receptive to the influences of other artistic centers where he was active, such as Padua, Verona, and Bologna. The Virgin’s architectonic throne was likely inspired by the Paduan painter Guariento. The detailing of the throne, the Virgin’s brocaded garments, and the ermine lining of the Christ’s Child’s tunic evoke the emphasis on ornamentation and surface pattern characteristic of Venetian painting of this period. Lorenzo’s rendering of the goldfinch, a symbol of the Passion, highlights his attention to naturalism.
Maria Immaculata
Object type: figure
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: fulda pottery and porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1764 – 1789
Subjects: flowers,leaves,virgin mary,globes
Bronze beaked oinochoe (jug)
Object type: oinochoe
Date: 534 – 501
Materials: bronze
Culture: etruscan

Sharply pronounced shoulder and beak spout with decoration on the neck and shoulder.
Cap
Object type: hat
Date: 1850 – 1860
Materials: silk, wool
Culture: naskapi
Location: canada
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1467 – 1500
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers,leaves
The Madonna and Child with an Apple
Object type: print
Date: 1475 – 1475
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: martin schongauer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1430 – 1491
Band
Object type: band
Date: 701 – 900
Materials: wool
Techniques: embroidery, weave
Location: egypt
Christoffel de Mondragon
Object type: print
Date: 1786 – 1786
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: jan punt
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1711 – 1779
Subjects: armour, historical persons

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Meteren, Emanuel van. Oorlogen en geschiedenissen der Nederlanderen en derzelver nabuuren. Amsterdam: Steven Jacobus Baalde, 1786, dl. 2, p. 229.
Gezicht op de binnenplaats van het St. Anna Gasthuis
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, intaglio
Artist: edouard tyck
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1847 – 1922
Subjects: nun(s), hospital, antwerp
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘L'ancien hospice des dames/ rue otto venius Anvers’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, workshop stamp: ‘Antwerpsche Etsers 1880’
Tien levensfasen
Object type: print
Date: 1598 – 1602
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Subjects: dying, the ages of man (+ fighting)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent naar ontwerp van Nicolaes de Bruyn. Prent uit serie van tien prenten met de tien levensfasen. Zie voor uitgebreide documentatie Janssen 2007, p. 129-174. De Hoop Scheffer beschrijft drie verschillende uitgaven, de tweede werd uitgegeven door Pieter Goos, zie De Hoop Scheffer 1996, p. 290, mogelijk betreft het hier de tweede staat.
Gordijnstof met geornamenteerde lengtestrepen
Object type: gordijnstof
Date: 1900 – 1925
Materials: cotton
Location: netherlands

Gordijnstof met geornamenteerde lengtestrepen. Onderrand met inweving RAMAER. Gele inslag op zwarte ketting. Rechtsboven een gedeelte van 17 x 17 cm. uitgesneden.
Twee steigerschuiten
Object type: print
Date: 1652 – 1654
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: ships (in general)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 1227, collector's mark: Lugt 1494, collector's mark: Lugt 462

Prent uit serie Verscheyde Schepen en Gesichten van Amstelredam met twaalf prenten. Type schip volgens de titel maar een dergelijke schuit was waarschijnlijk veel platter en werd met haken en bomen voortbewogen en niet, zoals hier met riemen of zeilen.
Book cover with overall pattern of red curved lines
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: paper, paste
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Printing Block
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Location: france
Man met kind in een tuin
Object type: photograph
Date: 1930 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: dutch east indies
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult man, tot, toddler ~ the ages of man, dutch east indies, the
Funerary mask of Hatnefer
Object type: mask, hatnefer, cartonnage
Date: 1492 – 1473
Materials: wood, gold, obsidian, stone
Location: egypt
Subjects: masks
Discussie tussen Jupiter en Juno
Object type: print
Date: 1615 – 1615
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: haarlem
Subjects: (story of) juno (hera), (story of) jupiter (zeus)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’, collector's mark: Lugt 11

Jupiter en Juno zitten naast elkaar, voor een lange tafel die wordt afgeruimd, en discussiëren over de vraag welke van de seksen het grootste genot kan ervaren in de liefde. Jupiter stelt dat dat het voorrecht van de vrouw is, Juno spreekt hem tegen. In de ondermarge een vierregelige toelichting, in twee kolommen, in het Latijn.
Derde collectie schepen en boten
Object type: print
Date: 1747 – 1813
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: commercial fishery, sailing-ship, sailing-boat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Jean of Paris, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"
Object type: print
Date: 1836 – 1836
Techniques: engraving
Artist: j. j. grandville
Artist role: illustrator
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1803 – 1847
Pruisen beschieten Gorinchem, 1787
Object type: print
Date: 1787 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: siege, position war
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gebruikt als illustratie in: J. Fokke, Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden voor de vaderlandsche jeugd, Johannes Allart, Amsterdam 1783-1795, 25 delen, dl. 19, pl. 9.
Portret van een baby en een jongen, zittend op en staand bij een balustrade
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1860 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: kampen
Subjects: historical persons, toddler (male), balustrade, infant, baby ~ the ages of man
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Atelier/ voor/ Photographie/ De Koe & Co./ Kampen.’
Viel und mancherley Gefögel den Malern und Goltsmiden dienlich
Object type: print
Date: 1607 – 1607
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands

Aan het linker uiteinde van het fries staat een boom. Rechts staan een boom en een struikje. Nummer 10 uit serie van 12 genummerde bladen.
Studies of a Draught Horse, a Blacksmith and a Young Woman
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1813 – 1814
Materials: graphite, paper
Location: france
Artist: jean louis andré théodore géricault
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1791 – 1824
Private of Cavalry, United States Army, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: soldiers,swords,men,profiles

Trade cards from the "MIlitary Series" (N224), issued in 1888 by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Flirtatiousness
Object type: print
Date: 1854 – 1854
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: henri-charles-antoine baron
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1816 – 1885
Subjects: couples,men,women,dogs
Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 17v)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1544 – 1544
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: peter quentel
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1500 – 1550

Published by Peter Guentel, Cologne. Illustrated title page, architectural border on reverse of title page, 99 pages of designs, arms of Cologne on last page (Merlos 1063.477, Van Worms).
Vrouwenhoofden en een lezend vrouwelijk naakt
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1875 – 1934
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: the hague
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934
Subjects: the (nude) human figure; 'corpo humano' (ripa) - aa - female human figure (+ sitting), reading, head (human) - aa - female human figure

Blad 19 recto uit schetsboek XXII met 30 bladen.
Beaker
Object type: beaker
Date: 1701 – 1750
Materials: silver
Artist: etienne guiart
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1682 – 1742

Bell or tulip-shaped beakers became the dominant form used throughout France in the first half of the eighteenth century. The decoration frequently consists of Berain-type strapwork, either in relief or engraved, lambrequin engraving around the rim, and gadrooning on the foot. This beaker may have been a component of a dressing table set but equally could have been part of a set of cutlery and other dining implements to be used when the owner was traveling. Although it remains difficult to establish exactly what beverages would be taken in silver beakers of this period, they may have held water, spirits, beer or even hot, spiced wine. They may also have been used for coffee as illustrated in late seventeenth-century engravings when the beverage was served at a tepid temperature. The rapid development of ceramic manufacturing in the eighteenth century as well as the vast imports from China led to the replacement of silver drinking vessels by porcelain as well as glass. Daughter of one of the founders of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Catherine D. Wentworth (1865-1948) was an art student and painter who lived in France for thirty years. She became one of the most important American collectors of eighteenth-century French silver and on her death in 1948 bequeathed part of her significant collection of silver, gold boxes, French furniture and textiles to the Metropolitan Museum. The collection is particularly strong in domestic silver, much of it provincial, and includes a number of rare early pieces.