deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Bronze ornament in the form of a seated male sphinx
Object type: ornament in the form of a seated male sphinx
Date: 27 – 14
Materials: bronze
Culture: roman
Subjects: sphinx

The ornament, originally clad in silver, served as a furniture attachment or, more likely, as part of a candelabrum or a stand for a censer or bowl. Egyptianizing decorative arts were especially popular in Rome in the years after the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 B.C. Other examples can be seen on the wall paintings from the villa at Boscotrecase, also displayed in this gallery.
Panorama van Amsterdam (blad A)
Object type: print
Date: 1792 – 1847
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gezicht vanaf het IJ op de scheepswerven op Oostenburg in Amsterdam. Op de voorgrond schepen.
Scarab Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare, Living, Flanked by Two Red Crowns
Object type: scarab
Date: 1479 – 1458
Materials: stone
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt
Subjects: scarabs
Head of falcon
Object type: head, falcon
Date: 712 – 343
Materials: stone
Location: egypt
Subjects: falcons
Hagenau
Object type: map
Date: 1735 – 1735
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam
Artist: zacharias chatelain (ii)
Artist role: bookseller, publisher
Artist dates: 1690 – 1754
Subjects: fortified city

Plattegrond van de versterkingen om de stad Haguenau. Onderaan soldaten in landschap. Onderdeel van een atlas met 223 kaarten van landen en steden en oorlogstaferelen in Europa in de periode ca. 1690-1735.
Twee katten
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: cornelis johannes lodewicus vermeulen
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1861 – 1936
Subjects: cat
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘C.J.L. Vermeulen/ Den Haag/ Amsterdam/ Utrecht’
Foliate Bowl with Stylized Peony Spray
Object type: vessel
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: carving, underglaze
Location: china
Upper part of a naos sistrum
Object type: music, sistrum, hathor emblem, bat
Date: 750 – 525
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Subjects: hathor

This upper part of a naos sistrum preserves the head and volutes derived from the Bat fetish and the naos frame with uraeus at the lower end. The Hathor emblem wears the straight wig that seems most common in the Late Period, rather than the curled wig seen on some sistra. The goddess’s face is always broad at the cheeks and flattened at the chin, but the quadrangular form here is emphasized by the lines of the hair drawn down across her forehead and behind her ears and by the emphatically squared chin. The angularity and the bright blue color make it possible this example dates somewhat earlier than some of the others exhibited here; the angularity is certainly seen, for example, in images of the god Bes from the Third Intermediate Period. Three holes on either side are provided for wires to hold rattle disks. Although faience is a relatively breakable material compared to wood or metal, there is no reason that faience sistra would not be suitable for single use or festival use, and traces of wear around the holes might suggest the wires were actually inserted in this example and the instrument used.
Comb
Object type: comb
Date: 1830 – 1839
Materials: shell
Culture: european
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1927 – 1927
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, the graphic arts, printed matter, paris
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Terracotta oil lamp
Object type: lamp
Date: 601 – 700
Materials: terracotta
Culture: roman

Vessberg Type 19 (slipper lamp). Mold-made, with applied tall, conical handle. Sharply carinated body; wide filling hole with raised rim; channel to wick hole. Wide, rounded shoulder decorated with a pattern of raised lines, forming a V shape in the middle of each side. Oval base ring, and flat base. Intact, except for a small chip at edge behind handle.
Liedverkopers onder de galerij van het Théatre Français te Parijs
Object type: print
Date: 1893 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: book-stall, kiosk, colonnade, theatre (building)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 4779

Prent afkomstig uit: Le Livre et l'image: revue documentaire illustrée mensuelle Fasc. XVIII.
Weg met karrensporen door de bergen bij Trossachs in Schotland
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1870 – 1880
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: trossachs
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: road, path

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907).
Gedisciplineerde socialistische meeting-gangers
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1910 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: johan braakensiek
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1858 – 1940
Subjects: wilhelm ii (keizer van duitsland), water-birds: swan, historical persons, political caricatures and satires
Inscriptions: date

Prent uit het bijvoegsel van: De Amsterdammer. Weekblad voor Nederland, 17 april 1910.
Length
Object type: length
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: silk
Subjects: flowers
Colosse oriental du Spéos de Phré, à Abousembil (Portrait de Rhamsès-le-grand)
Object type: photograph
Techniques: paper negative, salted paper print
Artist: maxime du camp
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1822 – 1894
Subjects: sculpture,architecture

Maxime Du Camp's mission to Egypt and the Near East in 1849-51 to make a photographic survey of monuments and sites is well documented in his writings and in those of his fellow traveler, Gustave Flaubert. After an initial stay in Cairo, the two friends hired a boat to take them up the Nile as far as the second cataract, after which they descended the river at leisure, exploring the archaeological sites along its banks. In July 1850 they left Egypt for Palestine, Turkey, and Greece before they parted in Italy the following April. Du Camp's album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie," published in 1852 and containing 125 photographs printed by Blanquart-Evrard, brought its author instant fame. In addition to the published edition, Du Camp arranged for a private printing of a few portfolios, such as the one in the Gilman collection, which numbers 174 images particularly noteworthy for their warm color and luminescence. Possibly printed in Gustave Le Gray's studio, the present portfolio is thought to have been in the collection of the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. A journalist with no experience in photography, Du Camp learned the craft from Le Gray shortly before his departure for Egypt.
Vogels in regen
Object type: print
Date: 1900 – 1936
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: japan
Artist: ohara koson
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1877 – 1945
Subjects: trees, birds
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee witte vogels in de regen; de één op een tak, de ander in vlucht.
Piz Kesch im Graubündener Hochgebirge
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1898 – 1903
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: graubunden
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: landscapes, mountain-range, snow peaks
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘BX’
Hermann en Dorothea door Robert Cauer
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: adult woman, adult man, sculpture
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Robert Cauer sculp./Cauer's plastische Werke. Nr. 2 Déposé. Mit gesetzlichem Schutz gegen Nachbildung’
Twee worstelaars
Object type: print
Date: 1552 – 1552
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: haarlem
Subjects: wrestling (sport)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee naakte worstelaars. De prent maakt deel uit van een serie over twee worstelaars in gevecht.
Fragment of an Inscribed Stele
Object type: fragment
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: limestone
Techniques: incising
Location: egypt

In the 500s Apa (Father) Jeremias founded a Coptic monastery at Saqqara, the ancient Egyptian necropolis (cemetery) of the city of Memphis, near the oldest pyramids. He and the earliest monks lived in tombs at the site. As the monastery grew, several grand churches with lavish decoration were built, as well as many chapels, public buildings, and complexes of cells (rooms) for each monk. The monastery continued to grow after the Arab conquest with materials from early Byzantine tomb structures being reused for additional monastic structures. Inscriptions record prayers to numerous holy figures. Sculptural elements from Saqqara are often carved with deeply undercut patterns to intensify the play of light and shadow and to mask the solidity of the architecture. This sculptural style was popular throughout the Byzantine world in the 500s.
Stage in Memory of Isabella Clara Eugenia, plate 24 from Casperius Gevartius, Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Triumphal Entry of the Most Serene and Honorable Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand)
Object type: print
Date: 1642 – 1642
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: belgium
Artist: theodoor van thulden
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669

On the occasion of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand’s triumphal entry into Antwerp in 1635, Peter Paul Rubens designed temporary arches and stages to decorate his procession route through the city. Triumphal processions of this kind were common forms of political theater, enacted to consolidate the power of a regent or monarch. The stage in memory of Isabella Clara Eugenia (2015.11) served to reinforce the dynastic transfer of authority from Ferdinand’s predecessor, who had governed the southern Netherlands from 1598 until the time of her death in 1633. The central image of the stage in her honor, enlarged in the accompanying print (2015.12), shows Ferdinand’s appointment by Philip IV, while the flanking columns represent effects of good government—public health and public safety.
Zeven ontwerpen voor horlogekasten en een deksel van een snuifdoos
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1707 – 1707
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Artist: johann lorenz hönnig
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1674 – 1713
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, snuff-box, watch
Inscriptions: number: ‘9’

Zwartornamenten. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Salt
Object type: salt
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: metal, silver

This electrotype is after a seventeenth-century (1613–14) original, at time of reproduction at Romanoff House, Moscow.
Badkamer in de Fuggerhäuser te Augsburg
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: augsburg
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: interior of the house, (decorated) ceiling, augsburg
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST-NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16 AMSTERDAM’, collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL QUELLINUS AMSTERDAM FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’, inscription: ‘CWN.’, inscription: ‘Renaissance - Duitschland. (Italiaansche Renaissance.)’
VARA theelepeltje
Object type: teaspoon
Date: 1900 – 1982
Materials: metal
Techniques: casting, silvering
Location: zeist
Subjects: netherlands
Inscriptions: mark: ‘H SOLA 90’, inscription: ‘VARA’

In the 1920s the various Dutch religious and political streams established separate radio organisations. The Protestant NCRV started in 1924, the Catholic KRO and the Socialist VARA in 1925, the Nonconformist Protestant VPRO in 1926 and the Liberal AVRO in 1927. All these organisations had one thing in common: lack of funds. There were constant money-raising activities and membership drives.
Portret van een onbekende man met baard
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1859 – 1885
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: brussels
Subjects: adult man, anonymous historical person portrayed
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Les Clichés étant conservés indéfiniment/ on peut toujours se procurer de nouvelles/ épreuves de Cartes & Portraits sans reposer’, address: ‘27, Rue de l'Ecuyer, 27,/ Entrée par la porte cochère/ BRUXELLES’
Ce est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 7 (recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1527 – 1527
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: willem vosterman
Artist role: printer
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Subjects: ornament

Printed by Willem Vosterman. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 3 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with a pattern of diamonds that frame a smaller diamond formed by a checkerboard pattern in the center. Middle register is decorated with a pattern of hexagons that frame a '#' in the center. Bottom register is decorated with a pattern of diamonds that are superimposed by another pattern of diamonds.
The Grape Harvest
Object type: print
Date: 1740 – 1801
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: philippe louis parizeau
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1740 – 1801
Subjects: grapes,men,working
Ontdekkingsreis van de Astrolabe
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1835
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: folk costume, regional costume, australian and oceanian races
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In 1830-1833 werd de publicatie 'Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 (...)' in zeventien delen uitgegeven door J. Tastu in Parijs. De auteur van dit verslag van een Franse expeditie met het schip 'l'Astrolabe' was J. Dumont d'Urville. De publicatie was verrijkt met illustraties van verschillende lithografen, naar ontwerp van Louis-Auguste de Sainson, die zelf had deelgenomen aan de expeditie.
Fiancailles
Object type: print
Date: 1670 – 1726
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: evening meal, dinner, supper, betrothal
Inscriptions: stamp:, collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp:, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Onderaan genummerd: 14. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Handel, nijverheid en verkeer, Boerenleven.
Toneel met de personificatie van Faam (Fama), 1578
Object type: print
Date: 1578 – 1579
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring
Location: antwerp
Artist: antoni van leest
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1545 – 1592
Subjects: vienna, matthias van oostenrijk (rooms-duits keizer), group of actors, troupe; actors on the stage, triumphal entry and public reception, pageant, 'entrée solennelle', 'joyeuse entrée', fame; 'fama', 'fama buona', 'fama chiara' (ripa), brussels

Illustratie in: J.B. Houwaert, Sommare beschrijvinghe vade triumphelijcke Incomst van den doorluchtighen ende hooghgheboren /Aerts-hertoge Matthias binnen die Prinelijcke stadt van Brussele, in 't iaer ons Heeren 1578 den XVIII dach Januarij... Gheinventeert ende ghecomponeert deur Jean Baptista Houwaert, Christoffel Plantijn, Antwerpen 1579. Boek in de Rijksmuseum Research Library met signatuur: 327 K 2.
Provence et Languedoc
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1858 – 1860
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: cannes
Subjects: castle, façade (of house or building)
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 1’, inscription: ‘Furne fils et H. Tournier Rue de Seine, 57, a Paris’, number: ‘No 23.’
La Mode, ca. 1839, : Costumes de Bal exécutés (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1839 – 1839
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: historical costume (+ men's clothes), historical costume (+ women's clothes), fashion plates
Inscriptions: address: ‘à Paris 25, Rue du Helder (Chaussée d'Antin) / à Londres Universal literary cabinet 64 St. James's Street’, caption: ‘Costumes de Bal exécutés par la maison de Commission Lasalle, No. 25 Rue du Helder.’, title: ‘La mode’

Man en twee vrouwen in verkleedkleren (travesti), gebaseerd op historische kostuums uit 1365, 1785 en 1240. Volgens het onderschrift: 'Costumes de Bal', uitgevoerd door 'la Maison de Commission Lasalle'. 'Travestissements'. Prent uit het modetijdschrift La Mode (1829-1855).
Sketches of A Cavalry Battle, Soldiers, and a Landscape
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
Stage Design
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: france
Artist: attributed to louis jean desprez
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1743 – 1804
Baan van twee aan elkaar genaaide zijdeweefsels met bloemdessin
Object type: silk textile
Date: 1735 – 1745
Materials: silk
Techniques: brocade
Location: france

Baan van twee aan elkaar genaaide gelanceerde en gebrocheerde zijdeweefsels, canntillé, liseré. Dessin: paren naar elkaar toegenegen zeer grootschalige arrangementen van bloemen en bladeren waartussen een centraal, kleiner, symmetrische opgebouwd bloemarrangement in geel, mosterdkleur, groen en twee kleuren blauw (brochering) en écru (lancering) op roze fond met liseré-effect in beige. Aan bovenzijde label met 22576 Rose ground Brocade 1 1/3 yrds 35.00 yard. Aan achterzijde op de stof gescheven: 22576. Opgespeld papier met letter Z. Toestand: goed, mat wat versleten.
Evening suit
Object type: evening suit
Materials: silk
Culture: french
Artist: house of paquin
Artist role: design house
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1891 – 1956
Gezicht op een straat in Braunschweig
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1879
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio, roulette
Artist: auguste numans
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1823 – 1883
Subjects: church (exterior), street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘1er etat de la planche A Numans’
Dirigent in een orkestbak
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1875 – 1934
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: the hague
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934
Subjects: large group of musicians, orchestra, wind instruments (+ artist at work), the audience ~ art performance

Naast hem een blazer en achter hem een toehoorder. Blad 2 recto uit schetsboek LXI met 20 bladen.
Gezichten op schilderijengalerijen in het Musée du Louvre
Object type: print
Date: 1800 – 1801
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: permanent exhibition, museum, picture, painting, 'gemalte galerie'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Monsaldy maakte verschillende gezichten op galerijen gedurende de Eerste Franse Republiek. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een vierdelige serie met gezichten op de schilderijengalerijen in het Musée du Louvre (Muséum central des arts de la République) van 1800-1801 (l'An IX).
Gezicht op Penshurst Place
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: charles auguste loye
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1841 – 1905
Subjects: castle
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Marine Leesgezelschap Amsterdam’

Prent gebruikt in: The Illustrated London News, 7 juni, 1888.
Architectuurstudies, mogelijk van een portaal
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1880 – 1882
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: south holland
Artist: george hendrik breitner
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1857 – 1923
Subjects: monumental door, porch, 'aediculum', architectural detail, civic architecture; edifices; dwellings

Pagina 129 uit een schetsboek met 72 bladen.
Terracotta fragment of a Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Object type: neck amphora fragment
Date: 475 – 460
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Above the meander, right foot and a bit of the lower drapery of a winged figure to right
Virtue and Nobility
Object type: drawing
Date: 1696 – 1770
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: giovanni battista tiepolo
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1696 – 1770
Lopende vrouw met zware zak
Object type: drawing
Date: 1883 – 1883
Materials: paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: ernst witkamp
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1854 – 1897
Inscriptions: date

Schilderij in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Amulet in the Form of a Bird
Object type: amulet, ba bird
Date: 1850 – 1775
Materials: lapis lazuli
Location: egypt

The piece is part of a group of objects found in tomb V21 at Abydos with two bodies. It was strung with other pieces in the Museum. The group includes 04.18.1–04.18.49.
Chest of Drawers
Object type: furniture
Date: 1760 – 1790
Materials: wood
Location: boston
Artist: attributed to john cogswell
Subjects: furniture
Inscriptions: Mark: chalk inscription on base possibly reading "Bottom"; sticker back left upper corner with printing: "No./Property of/Edith Cluett"

This serpentine-front bombé chest, one of only six known, is an exceptional example of this rare form, and it has retained its original finish and brasses. Though seemingly plain in design, the bombé chest was quite complicated and costly to produce because it took an excellent craftsman to curve the drawer sides, mahogany front, and the interior dovetail joints to match the swell of the case. While most American furniture forms were derived from European sources and were disseminated throughout the colonies, some forms like the Boston bombé chest are now known to have been produced only in their specific regions.
Gezicht op een weg met twee huizen
Object type: page
Date: 1895 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: berlin
Artist: will
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage, road, path, snow
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘MR&C’
Venus, recumbent on a shell, surrounded by sea gods
Object type: print
Date: 1520 – 1600
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
O jeugd! gy ziet hier ernst en spel, / Behaagt dit printtafreel u wel, / Ook tydverdryvende andre zaaken; / Laat het dan uwen geest vermaaken
Object type: print
Date: 1761 – 1804
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: children's games and plays

Blad met 12 voorstellingen van kinderspelen en bezigheden, waaronder lezen, vissen en schaatsen. Onder elke afbeelding een zesregelig vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 103.
Spinnende vrouw, staand
Object type: drawing
Date: 1646 – 1672
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: adriaen van de velde
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1636 – 1672
Subjects: standing figure - aa - female human figure, spinning (manufacture of yarn)
Bruxelles. L'Entrepôt
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1903 – 1906
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: brussels
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: warehouse (~ harbour), ships (in general), brussels
Boerin voedert ganzen
Object type: tissue stereograph
Date: 1855 – 1875
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: water-birds: goose, farmers - aa - female farmer, farmer's wife
Dorp met twee torens
Object type: print
Date: 1610 – 1703
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: village
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een dorp met twee gebouwen met hoge torens aan de voet van een heuvel.
Vase with Nine Peaches
Object type: vase
Date: 1736 – 1795
Materials: enamel, glaze, porcelain
Techniques: painting
Culture: chinese
Subjects: peaches

The delicate pink in the painting illustrates the development of new colors in the early part of the eighteenth century. Opaque white derived from a lead arsenite, and pale pink tinted with bits of gold were added to the palette and combined with existing colors to create a range of hues.