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Presentation dish for an imperial lecture1621
Object type: dish
Date: 1621 – 1621
Materials: silver
Culture: chinese

The mark in the rectangular cartouche on the top of the dish notes it was a gift made for an imperial lecture (jingyan) in 1621. In this type of lecture, erudite officials taught Confucian classics to the emperor, who often presented the teachers with valuable gifts, such as this rare example of skillful metalwork from the imperial Ming workshop. The decoration shows a scholar official, proudly walking under a parasol, being escorted to the palace for an imperial lecture.
Torso of a Youth
Object type: sculpture
Date: 1 – 200
Materials: marble
Culture: roman
Location: roman empire

Greek masterpieces were copied early and often. The statues of the 4th-century B.C. Athenian sculptor Praxiteles were especially influential. His male figures were usually languid, youthful, and sensuous. The standing figures bore the body’s weight on one taut leg. The other, bent at the knee, was relaxed. The side of the body with the lowered hip had a higher shoulder, resulting in a pronounced S curve. The muscular yet supple body and the opposing diagonal lines of the hips and shoulders of this torso indicate that its sculptor followed Praxiteles’s principles. A swath of drapery across its back may have been draped in the front over one or both of the youth’s arms.
Anna Maria Luisa
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: georg martin preissler
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1700 – 1754
Portret van Georg Engelhard Löhneysen
Object type: print
Date: 1590 – 1611
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Subjects: gloves, mittens, etc., historical persons, pendant, trinket, 'breloque', armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Conical Bowl with Decoration of Three Leaves
Object type: vessel
Materials: stoneware
Techniques: glazing
Location: china

This tea bowl is a fine example of the renowned Jizhou ware, which is famous for the subtle leaf-shaped imprint against the dark glaze on the object interior. This effect is believed to be achieved by placing real leaves covered in the glaze mixture on the vessel surface before firing. The leaves would then be burnt away in the kiln, leaving behind their traces. Another hallmark of the Jizhou ware is the "tortoiseshell glaze," created by applying light-brown splashes on the darker surface in imitation of tortoiseshell. This pattern can also be observed on the interior of this tea bowl.
Drie portretten van een naakte vrouw voor een decor
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1930
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: paris
Artist: léo
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: set, scenery ~ stage, historical persons - bb - woman, woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude

Deze foto's maken deel uit van een album.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 520 – 510
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, bent leg of male to left in front of a wineskin, which bears the inscription, HO PA[IS] KALO[S]
Triton in gevecht met een zeemonster
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1700
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: vatican city
Subjects: triton(s), monsters of the sea

Prent uit een reeks naar de gipsen reliëfs door Rafaël en uitgevoerd door zijn assistenten in de Vaticaanse Loggia.
Decoratieve patronen en een schildpad
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1916 – 1945
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: reijer stolk
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1896 – 1945
Subjects: tortoises, turtles
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘als all-over/ motief?/ of als/ [...]’

Recto-zijde van een losse tekening tussen blad 27 verso en 28 recto uit een schetsboek met 60 bladen.
Dresden. Palais im grossen Garten
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1895 – 1901
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: leipzig
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: palace
Brief aan Jan Ponstijn en Henriëtte Johanna Petronella van Hilten
Object type: letter
Date: 1925 – 1927
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: drongen
Artist: leo gestel
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1881 – 1941
Subjects: henriëtte johanna petronella ponstijn-van hilten, amsterdam, print maker, draughtsman, jan petrus ponstijn, matthieu wiegman, zeist, the arts; artists, landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
Gallery of Fashion, vol.II: April 1 1795 - March 1, 1796
Object type: book costume
Date: 1794 – 1802
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: england
Artist: nicolaus heideloff
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1761 – 1837
Subjects: women,harps,fashion

Volume of costume plates from the series "Gallery of Fashion", published monthly by Nicolaus Heideloff between 1794 and 1803. Heideloff was born in Stuttgart, and spent the early years of his career in Paris. He fled from there to London during the French Revolution, and spent the next 30 years there. During this time he contributed to the growing market in popular prints through various endeavors including the Gallery of Fashion. In 1815, he was appointed to the directorship of the national paintings gallery in The Hague, now commonly known as the Mauritshuis.
Co. B, 170th New York Volunteers
Object type: photograph
Date: 1861 – 1861
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: army,soldiers,american civil war
Tobacco box
Object type: tobacco box
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: copper
Subjects: swords,men,dogs

The lid of this oval box shows three roundels surrounded by leaf scrolls. The central medallion depicts an outdoor scene in which a man is attacked by two villains with swords. A terrified woman looks on from a distance. The two flanking roundels are inscribed: Voor mijn schoon lief verheeve / moet ick nu laate mijn ionck leeve (For my pretty, sublime sweetheart / must I now lose my young life). The underside is similarly decorated with three roundels and leaf scrolls. The outdoor scene in the center shows a man, accompanied by a dog, offering a wreath to his sweetheart. Inscribed: Floora life mijn waarde glans / ontfangt mijn trou met dese krans (Flora love, my true glory / receive my faithfulness with this wreath). With lined and corded rims, molded edges, and foliate boders and sides. The inscription found on the underside of this box is also recorded by Julien van der Linden, "Les boîtes en cuivres dites tabatières hollandaises," Annales de la Société d’Archéologie de Bruxelles 15 (1901), p. 210.
George Washington
Object type: medallion
Date: 1820 – 1830
Materials: glass, porcelain
Location: france
Artist: desprez jr.
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1819 – 1830
Subjects: george washington,profiles
Staande man, op de rug gezien
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Materials: pencil
Location: barentsz sea
Artist: louis apol
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1850 – 1936
Subjects: sailor, adult man (+ standing)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘[...]’

Mogelijk een bemanningslid van de Willem Barentsz. Blad 20 recto uit een schetsboek met 110 bladen betekend tijdens de expeditie naar Nova Zembla in 1880.
Marine landscape with figures
Object type: drawing
Date: 1615 – 1673
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: salvator rosa
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1615 – 1673
Subjects: landscapes,boats
The Rajah's Diamond, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
Object type: print
Date: 1896 – 1896
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: men

Trade cards/ booklets from the "Honest Library'" series (N115), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 in 1896 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. Each booklet consists of 16 pages of text and illustrations on a theme. Two other cigarette companies released the series in the same year, Gail & Ax (Navy Library) and Whitlock (Cheroots Library).
The Words She Spake Came as Through Bubbling Honey
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1885 – 1885
Materials: chalk, gouache, paint, watercolor, paper
Location: united states
Artist: will hicock low
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1853 – 1932
Border Fragment
Object type: border fragment
Date: 901 – 1500
Materials: animal fiber
Culture: chimú
Location: peru
Subjects: birds
Wall panel tiles
Object type: tile panel
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: luster painting, glazing

Tin-glazed earthenware, of which lusterware is one type, was developed in the Middle East in the ninth and tenth centuries to imitate the porcelains produced in China. The opaque white glaze concealed the clay body, which could range from pale buff to brick red, allowing for brilliant effects created by painting the white surface with metal oxides that fired to a range of colors. This technique, as well as the use of metallic luster—an iridescent, coppery painted glaze—spread throughout the Muslim world, arriving among the potters of Valencia in the thirteenth century. The so-called Hispano-Moresque lusterware, with its fusion of Islamic and Gothic styles and motifs, often in shaped imitating those of metal vessels, was treasured by the elite in Spain during the fifteenth century and exported to the courts of Europe. The Valencian industry declined in the late sixteenth century, as colorful Italian Renaissance maiolica gained in popularity among the fashionable and as Spanish centers were founded to produce versions of its pictorial forms. Adding to this decline was the expulsion from Valencia in 1609 of all the remaining Moriscos (Muslims converted to Christianity), though Christian potters reestablished the industry shortly thereafter.
Omzwervingen van Aeneas
Object type: print
Date: 1663 – 1663
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: stay of aeneas on the strophades islands: fight with the harpies that befoul the crew's food
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Aeneas en zijn metgezellen worden gestoord tijdens een maaltijd door Harpijen. Er ontstaat een gevecht tussen de soldaten en de Harpijen. Genummerd: X.
Kaart van Afrika
Object type: print
Date: 1774 – 1774
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: germany
Subjects: (map of) africa

Prent ook gebruikt in: Basedow, Johann Bernhard. Das Basedowische Elementarwerk. Ein Vorrath der besten Erkenntnisse zum Lernen, Lehren, Wiederholen und Nachdenken. Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crucius, 1774.
Clappers
Object type: clapper
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: wood
Culture: malagasy
Location: madagascar
Repository of Arts and Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Street. R. Ackermann, Printseller, Publisher, Fancy Stationer, and Manufacturer of Superfine Water-colours to Her Majesty and the Royal Family, Begs Leave to Recommend His Colours to the Nobility and Gentry, (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: london
Subjects: device (as symbol of the state, etc.), printed matter

Reclamebiljet voor de producten die Rudolph Ackermann jr. verkocht, zoals aquarel en aanverwante producten zoals schetsboeken. Op het verso een aankondiging van de door Ackermann uitgegeven prenten.
Simei vervloekt David en de dood van Absalom
Object type: print
Date: 1791 – 1791
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: dordrecht
Subjects: shimei curses david and casts stones at him, absalom, put to flight on a mule, remains hanging by his hair in an oak-tree
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Twee Bijbelse voorstellingen uit 2 Sam. 16 en 18. Simei vervloekt David en gooit stenen naar hem, en Absalom blijft met zijn haren hangen aan een eik en wordt gedood. Twee voorstellingen van één plaat, elk voorzien van een titel in het Nederlands en Frans. Geheel rechtsonder genummerd: 59.
God verschijnt aan Salomo
Object type: print
Date: 1767 – 1767
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: reinier vinkeles (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1741 – 1816
Subjects: solomon's dream: the lord appears to him; solomon prays for wisdom
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Koning Salomo droeg in Gibeon, de belangrijkste offerhoogte van het land, duizend dieren op het altaar als brandoffer op. Die nacht verschijnt God aan hem in een droom. Daarin vraagt hij God om wijsheid.
Allegorische voorstelling van het huwelijk
Object type: print
Date: 1590 – 1610
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: low countries
Subjects: heart symbolism, marriage, married couple, 'matrimonium', (story of) cupid, amor (eros), armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Man en vrouw reiken elkaar een hart doorboord met een pijl en Amor laat deze harten met een brandende fakkel samensmelten als blijk van liefde. Boven beide huwelijkskandidaten zweeft een kleine engel met een krans, bij de vrouw met de zon als attribuut en bij de man een leeuw. Op een band staat het motto On m'attend ailleurs.
Fragment rechte steel van glas uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: flute glass
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: glass
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Glass, stem glass, stems, plain; fragm, sim. NG 1980-27H294, eroded.
Rome: the forum
Object type: photograph
Date: 1872 – 1882
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: forum romanum
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: landscape with ruins
Scattered Pines on the Tone River (Tonegawa Barabara-matsu), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)"
Object type: print
Date: 1856 – 1856
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Paradise
Object type: painting, predella panel
Date: 1445 – 1445
Materials: canvas, gold, paint, wood
Artist: giovanni di paolo (giovanni di paolo di grazia)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1398 – 1482
Subjects: gardens,men,women,rabbits,angels,saints

Together with a scene of the Creation and Expulsion from Paradise, also in The Met (Robert Lehman Collection), this picture formed the base (predella) of an altarpiece formerly in the church of San Domenico, Siena (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence). Painted in 1445, the two paintings rank among the finest works by the artist. Groups of saints and angels embrace in a rich, tapestry-like garden of Paradise. Giovanni di Paolo was much inspired by paintings he saw in Florence by Fra Angelico, but he rejected the perspectival rationalism of Florentine art in favor of a visionary effect of exquisite intensity. For more information about this painting, including a reconstruction of the altarpiece, visit metmuseum.org.
Drinking cup
Object type: drinking cup
Date: 1501 – 1700
Materials: quartz
Subjects: faces
Fluted bottle with lid
Object type: bottle, fluted
Date: 1950 – 1950
Location: northern upper egypt
Interieur eener suikerfabriek
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1890 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: factory-interior, machine shop, dutch east indies, the, indonesia
Dish Ring
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1772 – 1772
Materials: silver
Location: dublin
Artist: charles harrison townsend
Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)
Object type: pelike fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Portret van Johann Balthasar Wernher
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1733
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leipzig
Artist: martin bernigeroth
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1670 – 1733
Subjects: vienna, johann balthasar wernher, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van keizer Valentinianus II
Object type: print
Date: 1656 – 1659
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: historical persons, emperor

Prent gebruikt in: Bos, Lambert van den. Het konincklyk treur-toonneel, ofte op- en ondergangh der keyseren, koningen en vorsten (...). Dordrecht: Jacobus Savry, 1656. Prent ook gebruikt in de 1659-editie.
Casemate du Gen.l Chassé
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1833
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: antwerp
Subjects: david hendrik baron chassé, permanent fortifications
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gezicht in de bunker of kazemat van generaal Chassé tijdens het beleg, 1832. De generaal zit aan tafel, om hem heen staan leden van zijn generale staf. Onderdeel van een serie van zes platen uit 1833 van de ruïnes van de citadel na het beleg door het Franse leger in november en december 1832.
Twee koeien en vee in landschap
Object type: print
Date: 1857 – 1857
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: the hague
Subjects: cow
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Twee koeien op de voorgrond, waarvan er één een dwanghalster om heeft. Achter hen liggende schapen en een liggende koe. Links op de achtergrond een man en vrouw met een ander deel van de kudde. Premieplaat bij Kunstkronijk 1857.
Gecostumeerde Historische Optocht bij de viering van het 25-jarig regeerings-jubilé van Z:M: Willem III Koning der Nederlanden. 12 Mei 1874. Gehouden te Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1874 – 1874
Materials: paper
Techniques: chromolithography
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: brussels, willem iii (koning der nederlanden), festivities on events of national importance (+ parade, pageant, cavalcade ~ festive activities), costumes used in pageants, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tweede van de zeven Oranjegroepen, de figuren genummerd 1-29. Onderdeel van de groep van negen platen van de gekostumeerde historische optocht gehouden te Amsterdam bij de viering van het 25-jarig regeringsjubileum van koning Willem III op 12 mei 1874.
Uittreksel uit het doopregister
Object type: letter
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: batavia
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bodegraven, draughtsman, jan brandes, batavia
Inscriptions: date

Blaadje op twee zijden beschreven. Recto: uittreksel uit het doopregister van Johanna Christina Duurkoop (gedoopt 16 april 1769) van 19 september 1779. Verso: bevestiging van de inschrijving van J.H. Borbecker als lidmaat van de lutherse kerk te Batavia, 18 december 1782. Onderdeel van een groep papieren van Jan Brandes uit zijn tijd als predikant bij de lutherse kerk te Batavia 1779-1785.
An Actor in the Fox Dance from the Drama, "The Thousand Cherry Trees"
Object type: woodblock print
Date: 1723 – 1792
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: ippitsusai bunchō
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1765 – 1792
Subjects: dance,flowers,trees,actors
Gezicht op Kensington Palace te Londen
Object type: print
Date: 1751 – 1751
Materials: cardboard, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, etching
Location: england
Subjects: palace
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

De serie “Londen” bevat 52 prenten met de nummers 1-52, waarvan dit nummer 51 is.
M. Botzaris, dessiné d'après nature par Boggi
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1829
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Mogelijke toeschrijving aan Lévilly op basis van vergelijkbare prenten uit zijn oeuvre.
Staande jongen met pet en een zittend meisje met een mand op schoot
Object type: print
Date: 1843 – 1843
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques van gingelen
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1801 – 1864
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, youth, adolescent, head-gear: cap
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, mark: ‘JVG’
Steelpan op drie poten, roodgeverfd
Object type: miniature
Date: 1675 – 1700
Materials: wood
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Steelpan van gedraaid hout, op drie poten, roodgeverfd.
Malle Babbe
Object type: print
Date: 1756 – 1817
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, roulette
Location: unknown
Subjects: witch, sorceress, owls
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portretbuste van een lachende oude vrouw met wit kapje en kraag. Op haar schouder zit een uil.
Portret van een vrouw, zittend aan een tafel met boek
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1867 – 1904
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: nijmegen
Artist: wilhelm ivens
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1849 – 1904
Subjects: sitting figure - aa - female human figure, historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Wilh. Ivens/ Nymegen/ 20, Houtstraat 20’
Portret van Henricus Petrus Joannes van den Berg
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1860 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: java
Subjects: rotterdam
Inscriptions: name: ‘H.P.J. v. d. Berg’, name: ‘W.&P. Phot. JAVA’, name: ‘WOODBURY & PAGE, / PHOTOGRAPHERS / JAVA.’
Set of four panel ornaments
Object type: panel ornament
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: gilt bronze
Netsuke
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: lacquer
Culture: japanese
Plate
Object type: plate
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: rue de popincourt
Artist role: factory
Subjects: men,portraits,flowers
Le Conseiller des Grâces, 1830, No. 34: 1. Coiffure par Mr Narciss (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: head-gear: beret (+ women's clothes), styles of hairdress - aa - ~ women, head-gear: cap (+ women's clothes), fashion plates
Inscriptions: title: ‘Le Conseiller des Grâces Rue du Curé prés de la Chapelle.’, caption: ‘1. Coiffure par Mr Narcisse. 2 Berret de crêpe. 3 Bonnet de velours.’

1. Coiffure door Mr Narcisse. 2. Baret van crêpe. 3. Muts van fluweel.
Box
Object type: box
Date: 1762 – 1763
Materials: gold, mother of pearl
Artist: jacques michel lemaire
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1676 – 1776
Subjects: birds,men,flowers
Portret van Wilhelm-Ludwig von Döringenberg
Object type: print
Date: 1671 – 1704
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: leonhard heckenauer
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1650 – 1704
Subjects: (military) camp with tents, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Gondelier op het Canal Grande in Venetië, reclame voor Theehandel van Veen & Co.
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1910 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: venice
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: gondola
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Venedig’
Figuren, mogelijk op het toneel
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: theatre, theatrical performance, the stage and its equipment

Blad 6 verso uit schetsboek XXVIII met 17 bladen.
Staande vrouw met een boek
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: julie de graag
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1877 – 1924
Subjects: standing figure, adult woman, book

Recto-zijde van een losse schets tussen pagina 1 en 2 uit een schetsboek met 22 bladen.
Grossmunster Cathedral and environs of Zurich
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1874 – 1884
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: zurich
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', church (exterior)
Chair strip with Lions and Phoenixes
Object type: chair strip
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk, velvet
Techniques: cutting, voiding
Culture: chinese
Subjects: phoenix

In a traditional Chinese reception hall, chairs for the hosts are set in pairs on either side of a central table and are covered with textiles that are not adhered directly onto the furniture. Made with velvet, the textiles provide not only comfort but also a pleasing aesthetic due to their shine and elegance. Here, the motif of phoenixes among peonies symbolizes noble women, making these pieces suitable for use in a lady’s quarters.