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Angel
Object type: crèche figure
Date: 1751 – 1800
Materials: terracotta, fiber, metal
Techniques: polychrome
Subjects: angels

In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three traditional scenes of a complete Neapolitan presepio: the Nativity, with angels, shepherds, and sheep; the procession of the three Magi, with their colorful retinue of attendants; and the varied and gay crowd of country and town people thronging the tavern, or inn, of Bethlehem — the diversorium mentioned by St. Luke, where on the Holy Night there was no place for Mary and Joseph. Averaging between twelve and fifteen inches in height, according to the position they were to take in perspective in the stage set, the figures are pliable and can be given poses at will, according to their facial expressions. Their bodies are made of tow and wire, their arms and legs are finely carved of wood, and their heads and shoulders are modeled of terracotta and accurately finished. Their attire, often enriched by accessories, jewels, and embroideries, is a sheer joy for the lover of folklore and eighteenth-century costumes. According to a tradition that seems to be supported by stylistic comparisons with figures in the collections of Naples and in the vast holdings of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, some of the winsome heads of the Howard angels are to be credited to the best eighteenth-century masters: Giuseppe Sammartino (1720–1793), well known for his monumental sculptures in marble and in stucco, his pupils Salvatore di Franco, Giuseppe Gori, and Angelo Viva, and one Lorenza Mosca (d. 1789), who was employed at the Royal Porcelain Factory at Capodimonte and stage director of the Royal Christmas Crib. Since Mrs. Howard's gift, the Museum has recreated the Neapolitan Christmas crib scene, much to the delight of visitors during the holiday season.
Painted Banner (Thangka) of Sakyapa Lineage Teachers
Object type: painting
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: cotton, gold, pigment
Culture: tibetan
Location: tibet
Design for a Cup(?) with a Man Putting up a Net
Object type: drawing
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: incising, pen, transfer
Artist: anonymous, german, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Subjects: human figures,working
Bottle-Shaped Vase
Object type: vessel
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Location: china
Stock-farm of Willem Prinsloo, near Bruintjes Hoogte
Object type: topographical view
Materials: ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: cape province
Artist: robert jacob gordon
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1743 – 1795
Inscriptions: annotation

Oorspronkelijk in omslag van roodkleurig halfleer en roodgemarmerd plat, dorso met ribben en goudopdruk; 71 x 99 x 6 cm.
Mr. Paulus Buis
Object type: print
Date: 1749 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, pen
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: amersfoort, ijsselstein, rechtsgeleerde, paulus buys
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘1575’

Prent ook gebruikt in: Jan Wagenaar, Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden, inzonderheid die van Holland (...), 21 delen. Amsterdam, Isaak Tirion, 1749-59.
Rio del Piombo, Venice
Object type: drawing
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Culture: american
Artist: andrew fisher bunner
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1841 – 1897
Subjects: buildings,canals,boats,venice
Nouveau Livre de Vases
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: france
Subjects: vase ~ ornament, satyr(s) (in general), garden vase

Prent maakt deel uit van een serie van zeven prenten.
Strook machinale kant met drieblad aan een twee maal omkrullende steel
Object type: strip
Date: 1875 – 1899
Materials: cotton
Techniques: lace
Location: europe
Artist: Anonymous

Strook naturelkleurige machinale kant: machinale Brusselse duchesse. Het zich herhalende patroon bestaat uit een drieblad met een twee maal omkrullende steel die langs de onderzijde van de strook ligt. De motieven zijn gemaakt in linnenslag met opengewerkte randjes en contourdraden. De opeenvolgende bladeren met stelen zijn met elkaar verbonden door een machinale vlechtengrond. In de eerste lus die de omkrullende steel maakt is een blokje gemaakt, waarmee een gekloste vormslag gesuggereerd wordt. De bovenzijde van de strook is recht afgewerkt. De schulpenrand langs de onderzijde komt voort uit het patroon met het drieblad.
Watch
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1734 – 1766
Materials: enamel, silver
Location: london
Artist: james shearwood
Knife Handle (Kozuka)
Object type: knife handle kozuka
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: gold alloy, gold, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Artist: gotō renjō (mitsutomo)
Artist role: fittings maker
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1628 – 1708

This kozuka features a design of Chōryō (the Chinese military and political leader Chang Liang, one of the Three Heroes of China) and a dragon.
Portret van Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1650
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: abraham lutma
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1624 – 1669
Subjects: jeweler, paulus willemsz. van vianen
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen, tekenaar en edelsmid.
Fanny Prunaire
Object type: medal
Date: 1880 – 1880
Artist: césar-isidore-henry cros
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1840 – 1840
Subjects: profiles,women

Pâte-de-verre was a material made from variously colored powdered glass placed in a clay mold and then fired in a kiln. Cros developed the technique in 1893.
Portret van Alexander Dalrymple
Object type: print
Date: 1802 – 1802
Materials: paper
Techniques: stippling
Location: london
Subjects: london, historical persons, explorer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst en een facsimile signatuur in de ondermarge.
Sleutelgaten
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1876 – 1924
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: gerrit willem dijsselhof
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1924
Subjects: lock ~ door

Blad 31 verso uit een schetsboek met 40 bladen.
Wapenbord met vis
Object type: wapenbord
Date: 1881 – 1881
Materials: panel
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: armorial bearing, heraldry

Ovaal houten wapenbord. Het wapen is in drieën verdeeld: links twee kwartieren waarvan het bovenste vertoont witte kantelen op rood, het onderste een zwarte keper met drie rode leeuwekoppen. De rechter helft van het wapen draagt een natuurlijk gekleurde vis op rode grond.
Fruitbomen en kruiden op Java, 1596
Object type: print
Date: 1646 – 1646
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: gouda, plants; vegetation, landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions, exploration, expedition, voyage of discovery, java

Niet gebruikt als illustratie in: Willem Lodewijcksz, D'eerste boeck. Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de Hollandtsche schepen bejeghent zijn, Cornelis Claes, Amsterdam 1598. In deze opgewerkte staat gebruikt in: De Eerste Schipvaerd der Hollandsche Natie naer Oost-Indien, waer inne verhaelt wordt al wat haer sonderlings onder wegen bejegent is ... ghetrocken uyt verscheyden Iournalen ofte dagh-registers daer van ghemaeckt, zeer vermaeckelijck ende nut om lesen. Opgenomen in: I. Commelin, Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, J. Janssonius, Amsterdam 1646. Genummerd: 36C.
Medaillonportret van een vrouw, op imitatie-rotskoralen standaard
Object type: sculpture
Date: 1741 – 1741
Materials: terracotta
Techniques: modeling
Location: paris
Artist: jean-baptiste janelle (de jonge)
Artist role: sculptor
Artist dates:  – 1764
Inscriptions: signature and date: ‘Jannelle. le jne 1742’
Shri Sheshanarayana, Vishnu Narayana on Shesha
Object type: lithograph
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: chromolithograph, paper
Culture: indian
Subjects: vishnu

This print depicts Vishnu Narayana— the primordial god who resides in water (nara)—stirring from his slumber on the cosmic ocean supported by the divine serpent Shesha, a celebrated moment that marks the end of the monsoon season and the beginning of a new age. Here Vishnu is accompanied by an assembly of gods, including his wife Lakshmi (left) and two divine devotees (right), a kneeling Garuda, and the ancient sage Narada, who is here likely modeled on the Vaishnava saint Tyagaraja (1767–1847), a celebrated devotee (bhakta) famed for the songs he composed in praise of Vishnu.
Kauterskill Clove (from Sketchbook of Landscape and Animal Subjects)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1860 – 1864
Materials: gouache, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: wash
Culture: american
Artist: thomas hewes hinckley
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1813 – 1896
Subjects: mountains,landscapes

Hinckley painted landscapes chiefly as a background to his portraits of wild and domesticated animals. The sketchbook including this landscape appears to have been filled during a tour that Hinckley probably began near the Delaware Water Gap and extended north into the Catskill Mountains and Adirondacks of New York Sate. Few of the drawings in this book, however, can be linked to Hinckley’s known paintings after 1864, and the majority of them represent not merely selected motifs, but discrete compositions that often assume the character of engraved vignettes, such as this beautiful drawing of Kaaterskill Clove, a favorite subject of the Hudson River School of landscape painters.
Slapende hond
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1837
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: ernst willem jan bagelaar
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1775 – 1837
Subjects: dog
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Spearhead
Object type: spearhead
Materials: bronze
Culture: japanese
Location: japan

Although this bronze spearhead was acquired in Southwestern Japan, it does not match the form of examples excavated in Japan and is thus likely to have originally made elsewhere. The lobe on the socket, which is not pierced to be tied to a shaft, and the blunt edges of the head indicate that the object was probably intended for ritual or votive purposes.
Vlucht van Jacobus II
Object type: history medal
Date: 1689 – 1689
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: leiden
Artist: jan smeltzing (i)
Artist role: modelleur
Artist dates: 1656 – 1693
Subjects: jacobus ii (koning van engeland en schotland), london
Kapitein ter Zee in groote tenue
Object type: print
Date: 1835 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: utrecht
Subjects: (military) uniforms, clothes, costume
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een kapitein-ter-zee van de Marine in grote tenue, te voet. Onderdeel van een serie van 157 losse bladen met Nederlandse militaire uniformen in de jaren 1830-1832.
Clock ornament
Object type: clock ornament
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: gilt bronze
Subjects: faces,flowers
Geschiedenis van het Oude Testament
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1538 – 1538
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: switzerland
Artist: veit rudolf specklin
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates:  – 1550
Subjects: the death of jeroboam's son abijah

Boekillustratie voor het eerst gebruikt in: Biblia Utriusque Testamenti iuxta Vulgatam Translationem, Lyon, M. en G. Trechsel (voor Hugo à Porta) 1538. Later in verschillende uitgaven opnieuw gebruikt. Deze prent vermoedelijk gebruikt in één van de uitgaven uitgegeven en/of gedrukt door Jean Frellon, Lyon.
Corpus from a crucifix
Object type: corpus
Date: 1651 – 1700
Materials: bronze, gilt
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: christ,crucifixion
Earring
Object type: earring
Date: 701 – 900
Materials: copper alloy
Techniques: filigree
Culture: avar
Lioness with her Family
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: graphite, paper, paint, watercolor
Location: england
Artist: sawrey gilpin
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1733 – 1807
Cross
Object type: cross
Date: 601 – 700
Materials: silver
Culture: roman
Koninkrijk Saksen, Johann, neugroschen,1870
Object type: coin
Date: 1870 – 1870
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: dresden

Zilveren munt. Voorzijde: hoofd van de koning naar links. Onder hoofd letter B. Keerzijde: waarde-aanduiding in drie regels, waaronder jaartal. Kartelrand.
Portret van Carl Egon zu Fürstenberg
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint
Artist: leonhard heinrich hessell
Artist role: musical instrument maker, painter, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1757 – 1830
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Pair of cassolettes
Object type: cassolettes
Date: 1787 – 1787
Materials: copper, enamel, gilt bronze
Artist: willliam hopkins croft
Artist role: enameler
Artist dates: 1725 – 1825
Subjects: boys,girls,sheep
Ex libris van Robert Hovenden
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1908 – 1908
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: charles william sherborn
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1831 – 1912
Subjects: armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: date
Bandit Beneath a Tree
Object type: print
Date: 1795 – 1801
Techniques: etching
Artist: raphael lamar west
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1769 – 1850
Subjects: weapons,men,trees
Veldslag bij Nyborg, 1659
Object type: map
Date: 1659 – 1659
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: southern netherlands
Artist: gaspar bouttats
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1640 – 1695
Subjects: flushing, michiel adriaenszoon de ruyter, battle (+ land forces)

Kaart met de inname van de stad Nyborg door Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter en het verslaan van het Zweedse leger door de Denen, 25 november 1659. In het midden beschieten de Denen en de Zweden elkaar op het open veld, rechtsboven de Hollandse vloot bij de stad Nyborg. Links een banderol met de legenda A-X in het Italiaans.
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien, 2 juin 1798, An 6, (41 (bis)): Cornette à la Paysan (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1798 – 1798
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: border, ribbon, braid (+ women's clothes), head-gear (cornette) (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes), dress, gown (+ women's clothes), bracelet, wristlet (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: caption: ‘Cornette à la Paysane, ornée de Fleurs. Robe lacée. / Tivoli’, title: ‘Costume Parisien.’

'Cornette à la Paysane', versierd met bloemen. Japon met korte mouwen, rijgsluiting en strik. Onder de opgetrokken japon is haar 'chemise'(?) te zien. Verdere accessoires: armband om de rechterpols, kous, platte schoen met puntige neus. Volgens het onderschrift is deze voorstelling naar het leven getekend in 'Tivoli'. De prent maakt deel uit van het modetijdschrift Journal des Dames et des Modes, uitgegeven door Sellèque, Parijs, 1797-1839.
Beschilderde terracotta vaas in het Museo Nazionale te Napels
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: naples
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase
Inscriptions: number: ‘131.’, inscription: ‘CWN.’, collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL <BR />QUELLINUS<BR />AMSTERDAM<BR />FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’, collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST-<BR />NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS<BR />GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16.<BR />AMSTERDAM’, inscription: ‘Grieksche Kunst in Zuid-Italië.<BR />Napels. Nationaal Museum.<BR />Beschilderde Terra-cotta Vaas, Ampulla.’
Magazine Covers Bond van Kunstenaars ter verdediging van de Kulturele Rechten (Association of Artists in Defence of Cultural Rights)
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1906 – 1936
Materials: paper
Techniques: linocut
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: barbed wire, imprisonment
Inscriptions: date

In 1935, a group of Dutch, left-wing artists campaigned against the rise of fascism. Human rights, the constitution, and art subsidies were under threat. Militarism, war, nationalism, violence and oppression threatened. The artists formed a union that organized lectures and protest exhibitions. These pages are from their bulletin calling for resistance.
Study of Birch Trunks (Scribners')
Object type: drawing
Date: 1869 – 1869
Materials: gouache, graphite, paper
Culture: american
Artist: jervis mcentee
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1828 – 1891
Subjects: trees
Relief fragment from mastaba of Rehuerdjersen
Object type: relief, mastaba of rehuerdjersen
Date: 2030 – 1640
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt
Subjects: animals,birds,men
Portret van Martinus Wilhelm Petri
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: rotterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: utrecht, adult man, historical persons

Prent uit: Onze musici: portretten en biografieën. Rotterdam: Nijgh en Van Ditmar, 1898.
Church flagon
Object type: church flagon
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: pewter
Lithografische schetsen 1823
Object type: print
Date: 1823 – 1823
Materials: paper
Techniques: pen lithography
Location: paris
Subjects: poacher, rodents: hare, hare-hunting, rabbit-hunting
Card Number 9, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-6), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the sixth subset, N145-6. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing, 25 november 1902
Object type: invitation
Date: 1902 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Subjects: criticizing and discussing art, art criticism, circle, club of artists, collecting and exhibiting products of the fine arts, book in which illustrations are essential - mm - book open, organization, functionaries and dignitaries in roman catholic church; clergy in general
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Koorknaap met prentenbijbel op schoot. Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing op 25 november 1902 van de portefeuille van de leden.
Twee apen kaarten
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1690
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: southern netherlands
Subjects: animals acting as human beings
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee apen zitten op de grond en zijn aan het kaarten. De rechtse draagt een hoed met een hanenveer. Prent uit een serie van zes prenten en een titelprent waarin verschillende menselijke bezigheden door apen voorgesteld worden.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 480 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, back of head, left ear, neck, and left shoulder of youth to left
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1301 – 1500
Materials: ivory, wood
Techniques: inlay
Location: egypt
Vrouw met stok
Object type: drawing
Date: 1722 – 1799
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: netherlands
Artist: jan anton garemyn
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1712 – 1799
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Staande vrouw met een stok in beide handen, en profil gezien.
Plate with Phoenixes
Object type: dish
Date: 1301 – 1350
Materials: glaze, stonepaste
Techniques: painting
Location: iran
Subjects: phoenix

This bowl is a fine example of the so-called 'Sultanabad' wares which were produced during in the Ilkhanid period. This type is characterized by a distinctive glaze, incorporating fine underdrawing in black or grey-green, often combined with cobalt and turquoise accents.
Twee voorstellingen uit Clarissa van Samuel Richardson
Object type: print
Date: 1795 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: literature, key, gate, entrance, index finger forwards, pointing, indicating
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prenten gebruikt voor: Richardson, Samuel. Clarissens Schicksale dargestellt in vier und zwanzig Kupferblättern von Daniel Chodowiecki. mit Erläuterungen des Deutschen Uebersetzers Dr. L. Th. Kosegarten. Leipzig: Heinrich Gräff, 1796.
Achterover leunende naakte vrouw
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1948 – 1948
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: leaning figure - aa - female human figure, woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude

Prent uit: Lucianus van Samosata. Dialogues des Courtisanes. [Vertaald uit het Grieks door] Charles Astruc. Parijs: s.n., 1948, p. 56.
Ontwerp voor titelblad voor: Aloude Staat der Verenigde Nederlanden
Object type: titelblad, titelpagina
Date: 1782 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: reinier vinkeles (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1741 – 1816
Subjects: symbols of particular nations, states, districts, etc., netherlands

Ontwerp voor titelblad voor: Aloude Staat der Verenigde Nederlanden. Spelende putti bij een ruïne en dansend rond de vrijheidshoed op een stok.
Untitled (Portrait of a Man Holding a Guitar)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1855
Techniques: daguerreotype, photography
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Subjects: lundberg collection, photography, portrait, portraits, portraits: male subject, guitars, musical instruments, musicians, men, male
Willem III in de Vroedschap te Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: william iii (prince of orange and king of england, scotland, and ireland), townhall, interior ~ representation of a building

Gebruikt als illustratie in: J. Fokke. Geschiedenissen der Vereenigde Nederlanden voor de vaderlandsche jeugd, 25 dln. Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, 1783-1795, dl. X, pl. I.
Gedicht over een heer die verliefd is geworden op iemand boven zijn stand (deel 2)
Object type: calligraphy
Date: 1646 – 1650
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: calligraphy
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690

Vervolg van gedicht op de vorige pagina (verso van folio 23).
One from a Pair of Ear Ornaments (Prakaravapra Kundala)
Object type: earring
Date: 1 – 100
Materials: gold, metal
Culture: indian
Subjects: satavahana,elephants,lions

This spectacular pair of earrings is a rare survival of ancient Indian goldsmithing, much of which was repurposed by later generations. Double-ended tendrils such as these, passed through distended earlobes, are referred to in the ancient Sanskrit epic Mahabharata as being worn by the hero Arjuna while in female disguise. The same style of jewelry is frequently depicted in early Satavahana sculpture. Together with gemstone and ivory carvers, potters, and weavers, goldsmiths were an important part of early India’s craft guild structure, and inscriptions often name them as donors to Buddhist causes. The only other examples of this ear ornament type were recovered in the Thai peninsula, an indication of early Satavahana trade with Southeast Asia.
Vaas
Object type: print
Date: 1771 – 1771
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: vase ~ ornament, garden vase
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Prent uit een genummerde serie met twaalf vazen door Allou en Nicolet.