deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Spotprent op het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, 1868
Object type: print
Date: 1867 – 1867
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Subjects: personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.

Spotprent op het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken. De Nederlandse Maagd licht het dak van het Torentje om te zien of het ministerie al ontbonden is. Plaat verschenen bij het weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, nr. 16, 18 april 1868.
Officier te paard
Object type: drawing
Date: 1739 – 1782
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: paulus constantijn la fargue
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1729 – 1782
Subjects: land forces (+ cavalry, horsemen), officer
Head of Executioner, from John Evelyn's Sculptura
Object type: print
Date: 1755 – 1755
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: ireland
Artist: richard houston

Richard Houston was an Irish painter and etcher who worked in England. He copied paintings primarily by Sir Joshua Reynolds. This print, however, is one of at least five copies of a mezzotint by Prince Rupert, who brought this new technique to England around 1654.
Sheet with overall geometric pattern with striped circles and squares
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Techniques: relief print
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
George Washington
Object type: figure
Date: 1800 – 1830
Materials: earthenware
Culture: british
Location: england
Subjects: george washington,men
The Trumpet and the Bassoon
Object type: print
Techniques: etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: satire,sleeping,men,women

This is one of two prints that Rowlandson devoted to a snoring couple, using the title to suggest that the man projects a lower sound and the woman a higher. This 1803 version, published by William Holland, centers on the two sleepers snuggled together. In 1811 Rowlandson adapted the idea for Thomas Tegg and expanded the view to include the bedroom (see 17.3.888-11, 59.533.1398, and 59.533..2017; for other impressions of this image see 59.533.2018).
Portret van Daniel Georg Morhof
Object type: print
Date: 1702 – 1730
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: diederich lemkus
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1693 – 1730
Subjects: daniel georg morhof, philology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), historical persons, lawyer, attorney at law
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Ontwerp voor een kleed
Object type: design
Date: 1874 – 1945
Materials: pencil
Techniques: brush
Artist: carel adolph lion cachet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1945
Subjects: carpet, rug, tapestry
Horlogekast en drie stroken
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1631 – 1736
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Horlogekast met de Heilige Familie, een engel en Johannes de Doper.
Portrait of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Object type: print
Date: 1831 – 1833
Techniques: engraving
Artist: paolo toschi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1788 – 1854
Subjects: men,portraits
Vesuvius
Object type: watercolor
Date: 1904 – 1904
Materials: graphite, watercolor, paper
Culture: american
Artist: mary newbold sargent
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1826 – 1906
Subjects: volcanoes
Lime Dipper or Pin, Monkey
Object type: lime dipper or pin
Date: 1 – 700
Materials: gold
Techniques: casting
Culture: calima or yotoco
Location: colombia
Subjects: monkeys
[Barges, Steamers, and Transports, White House Landing, Pamunkey River, Virginia]
Object type: photograph
Date: 1861 – 1865
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: timothy h. o'sullivan
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american, born ireland
Artist dates: 1840 – 1882
Subjects: american civil war,rivers,boats
De negen muzen
Object type: print
Date: 1592 – 1592
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: haarlem
Subjects: erato (one of the muses); 'erato' (ripa)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a, signature: ‘F.E.’, signature: ‘HG. fecit.’

Een serie van negen muzen. Met Latijnse tekst van Franco Estius in de marge onder de prent.
Fotoreproductie van een tekening, voorstellende bezoekers van het Výstaviště te Praag
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1891 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: prague
Subjects: anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait
Harlequina
Object type: figure
Date: 1760 – 1760
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: nymphenburg porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1747 – 9999
Subjects: women
Romp van een schip met een zwaard, een boei en onderdelen van een anker
Object type: drawing
Date: 1802 – 1882
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: john linnell (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1792 – 1882
Subjects: parts of ship's exterior, beacon, parts of ship's exterior: anchor
Boten op het land
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: barentsz sea
Artist: louis apol
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1850 – 1936
Subjects: coast (in polar regions), rowing-boat, canoe, etc.
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Terntäring[?]’

Blad 10 recto uit een schetsboek met 35 bladen betekend tijdens de expeditie naar Nova Zembla in 1880.
Decoratieve groepen met hazelaartakken, eekhoorns, palmbladeren en een orang-oetan
Object type: page
Date: 1887 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: austria
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: trees: palm-tree (+ leaf), monkeys, apes, rodents: squirrel
Inscriptions: number: ‘106.’
Vrouwen gekleed volgens de Engelse mode, ca. 1640
Object type: costume print
Date: 1640 – 1640
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: london
Artist: wenceslaus hollar
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1607 – 1677
Subjects: europeans: englishmen (+ women), neck-gear: collar (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, clothes, costume (+ women's clothes), head-gear: hat (+ women's clothes), shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes), dress, gown (+ women's clothes), england
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 654

Engelse vrouw, in profiel naar links. Zij trekt haar overkleed onder de linkerarm omhoog, zodat het geborduurde onderkleed is te zien. Een hooggesloten kraag, afgezet met kant bedekt hals en schouders. Op het hoofd een taps toelopende hoed met koord om de bol en brede slappe rand. Schoenen met hakken, versierd met een rozet. No. 19 uit de serie Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus.
Christus aan het volk getoond
Object type: print
Date: 1628 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: antwerp
Subjects: pilate showing christ to the people, 'ostentatio christi', 'ecce homo' (john 19:4-6)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Pilatus, staand op het balkon van zijn paleis, toont Christus aan het volk. Christus, met lendendoek, mantel en doornenkroon, houdt een rietstengel vast. De mensen onder het balkon roepen om zijn kruisiging, sommigen hebben hun arm geheven. Links staat een man die het kruis omhoog houdt. In de marge een tweeregelig onderschrift in het Latijn.
Copy of The Relief of Vienna, September 12, 1683
Object type: medallion
Date: 1801 – 1900
Artist: johan ignaz bendl
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1630 – 1730
Subjects: animals,birds
Fragment
Object type: textile
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: textile
Location: france
Portrait of a Man
Object type: painting
Date: 1540 – 1550
Materials: oil, wood
Artist: corneille de lyon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1533 – 1575
Subjects: men,portraits

Based on the sitter’s costume, this portrait of a self-assured inhabitant of Lyon may be dated around 1540–50.
Portret van Paul Eber
Object type: print
Date: 1610 – 1610
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: theologian, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De prenten uit deze serie werden vermoedelijk toegevoegd aan Hondius' eerdere serie 'Icones Vivorum Nostra Patrumq. Memoria Illustrium' (1599).
Ezechiel
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1493 – 1493
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: persons from the old testament (not in biblical context, nor occurring in legendary/historical extensions included in division 71)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘125’

De houtsnede wordt gebruikt als boekillustratie in de Liber Chronicarum (of Neurenbergkroniek) van Hartmann Schedel, verschenen in het Latijn en Duits in 1493. Zie de Latijnse uitgave, folio 65v.
Venus en Amor
Object type: print
Date: 1659 – 1740
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: jan van der bruggen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1709
Subjects: venus and cupid (cupid not being mere attribute)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Venus en Amor liggen in bed onder een baldakijn. Naast het bed een omgevallen po.
Horses Going to a Fair, plate 3 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone
Object type: print
Date: 1821 – 1821
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: jean louis andré théodore géricault
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1791 – 1824
Groepsportret van de familie Piek, v.l.n.r. Carel Overhof, Gesiena Piek, Louise Maria Fellinger, Hendrik Asser, Stephan Piek met onbekend kind, Carl Alexander Piek, Lucia Ottilia Piek, Cato Piek, Johanna Piek en Lucia Piek-Jolles
Object type: photograph
Date: 1891 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: willem frederik piek sr.
Artist dates: 1838 – 1916
Subjects: johanna margaretha piek, amsterdam, family life, anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait, netherlands
Ontwerpen voor olie- en azijnstellen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1784 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: england
Subjects: spice-box, table-ware, oil, vinegar, sauces

Blad met vier ingeplakte bladen met ontwerpen voor olie- en azijnstellen en mosterdpotten. Met handgeschreven nrs. 296-299. Onderdeel van een catalogus met assortiment modellen van Sheffield verzilverd vaatwerk (pleet) door Matthew Boulton.
Ejiri
Object type: print
Date: 1838 – 1838
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa hiroshige
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Subjects: human figures,houses,mountains,landscapes,trees
Portret van een meisje en een jongen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1880 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, boy (child between toddler and youth), historical persons, toddler (female)
Mensen verzamelen zeewier aan de duinkust
Object type: print
Date: 1875 – 1875
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: félix cogen
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1907
Subjects: dune coast, cow, three-wheeled, animal drawn vehicle, algae, seaweed
Inscriptions: collector's mark
Herdenkingsalbum van rooms-katholieke geestelijken gevallen tijdens de Commune van Parijs
Object type: scrapbook
Date: 1871 – 1871
Materials: cardboard, linen, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, carbon print, writing
Location: london
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: revolutionary government, priest (roman catholic), historical persons, revolution, revolt, politics, violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death - ee - death not certain; wounded person, paris
Inscriptions: name: ‘Creswick & Co. Stationers 12. Gt. Portland St.t Oxford Street’

Albumblad met groene linnen omslag. Voorplat versierd met goudgekleurde blad- en bloemmotieven in reliëf. Het album bevat 23 bladen van dik papier met in totaal 53 opgeplakte foto's waarvan vier los. De meeste bladen zijn voorzien van Engelse, Franse en Latijnse teksten in rode en zwarte inkt, vooral spreuken uit bijbelboeken; ook tekeningen van kruisen en kronen en uitgeknipte afbeeldingen van onderscheidingen. De foto's zijn voornamelijk portretten van rooms-katholieke geestelijken die omgekomen zijn ten tijde van de Commune van Parijs, een revolutionaire regering die aan het bewind was van maart tot en met mei 1871 en hiermee verband houdende afbeeldingen. De samensteller is mogelijk een Engelsman uit Londen.
The Veil
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1887 – 1887
Materials: board, charcoal, graphite, paper, wood
Techniques: drawing, stumping
Location: belgium
Artist: fernand khnopff
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: belgian
Artist dates: 1858 – 1921
Dames- en herenkleding
Object type: print
Date: 1779 – 1779
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: fashion, clothing
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een latere staat van deze prent is ook gebruikt in: Lauenburger genealogischen Kalender auf das Jahr 1780.
Les Modes Parisiennes, 1878, No. 1771 : Modèles de Mme Leyvastr (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: corsage (+ women's clothes), curtains, pendant, trinket, 'breloque' (+ women's clothes), dress, gown: evening dress (+ women's clothes), gloves, mittens (long gloves) (+ women's clothes), border, ribbon, braid (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, fan (+ women's clothes), bracelet, wristlet (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: title: ‘LES MODES PARISIENNES’, address: ‘Bureaux, 25, Rue de Lille’, caption: ‘Modéles de Mme Leyvastre, 2, Ch.sée d'Antin_Parfumerie Oriza de L.Legrand. F.r de la Cour de Russie.r. S.t Honoré, 207_Gants Joséphine de la Ville de Lyon, 6, Ch.sée d'Antin_ Ceinture-Régente de Mmes de Vertus soeurs,12,r Auber_ Eau des Fées, 43,r, Richer_Spécialité de Costumes en véritable cachemire des Indes, M.on Le Houssel, 1, r. Auber’

Twee vrouwen in een interieur, van wie één in een verticaal gestreepte avondjapon met sleep. Volgens het onderschrift: 'modèles' van Leyvastre. Hieronder enkele regels reclametekst voor verschillende producten. Prent uit het modetijdschrift Les Modes Parisiennes (1843-1885).
Twee karikaturale manskoppen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1819 – 1881
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Artist: johannes tavenraat
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1809 – 1881
Subjects: caricatures (human types)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Ja jongen, als de heeren / willen dan is daar / niets aan te doen!’
Engelse Oostindische Compagnie (EIC), India, 1/4 anna,1835
Object type: coin
Date: 1835 – 1835
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking

Koperen munt. Voorzijde: door twee op banderol, waarin opschrift, staande leeuwen met pijl, waaraan vlag, in de klauw, gehouden wapenschild van de EIC, waarboven helmteken. Tussen wapenschild en banderol jaartal. Keerzijde: tussen twee samengebonden takken in drie regels waarde-aanduiding: one quarter anna, waarboven waarde-aanduiding in Arabische lettertekens. Gladde rand.
De waard luistert naar Franziska en Minna von Barnhelm
Object type: print
Date: 1769 – 1769
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: literary characters and objects
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Deze prent maakt onderdeel uit van een serie van twaalf scènes die het toneelstuk 'Minna von Barnhelm' van Gotthold Ephraim Lessing illustreren (eerste uitvoering 1767). Chodowiecki bracht het toneelstuk twee keer in prent, een met onderschriften in het Frans en een met onderschriften in het Duits. Bij beide series werden de scènes op een plaat geëtst. Deze prent hoort bij de Franse serie, gebruikt als boekillustratie in: 'Almanac Genealogique pour l'an 1770'.
View of the Palazzo della Consulta on the Quirinal housing the Papal Secretariat, from Views of Rome
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Artist: giovanni battista piranesi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1720 – 1778
Porte d'Appartement avec son Profil
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1784 – 1785
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations), door
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Vooraanzicht en profiel van een geornamenteerde deurlijst met bloemmotieven, acanthusbladeren en druiventrossen.
Helmet (Shokakutsuki Kabuto)
Object type: helmet shokakutsuki kabuto
Date: 701 – 800
Materials: bronze
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Angel with Trumpet and Wreath
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1700 – 1799
Five Designs for Decorated Plates
Object type: drawing
Date: 1845 – 1855
Materials: ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: alfred henry forrester [alfred crowquill]
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1804 – 1872
Subjects: flowers,leaves
Animal-Head Brooch
Object type: brooch
Date: 1000 – 1100
Materials: copper alloy, gilt
Techniques: casting
Culture: viking
Location: sweden

The island of Gotland specialized in the creation of richly ornamented box-shaped and animal-head brooches.
Schetsboek met 43 bladen
Object type: sketchbook
Date: 1854 – 1914
Materials: cardboard, chalk, charcoal, leather, linen, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, stumping
Location: laren
Artist: albert neuhuys (1844-1914)
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1844 – 1914
Subjects: landscapes, anatomy (non-medical), farmers, interior of the house

Tussen blad 20 en 21 is één blad ongenummerd gebleven. Dit blad heeft een subnummer gekregen om de volgorde van de genummerde bladen te behouden. De volgende bladen uit het schetsboek zijn blanco: 1(V), 5(R), 5(V), 6(V), 9(V), 13(V), 14(V), 16(R), 23(V), 25(R), 27(R), 29(R), 31(R), 36(R), 37(V), 38(R).
Ex libris van Andreas Szebenyi
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1912 – 1943
Materials: paper
Techniques: linocut
Location: hungary
Artist: lászló bartos
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1902 – 1943
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, pegasus, the winged horse, quill
Portret van twee onbekende kinderen, staande voor een deur
Object type: photograph
Date: 1905 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: toddler, boy (child between toddler and youth), anonymous historical persons portrayed in a double portrait
Omslagkalender "Bloem en blad"
Object type: print
Date: 1904 – 1904
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: bussum
Subjects: flowers, july ~ other concepts
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Newe Künstliche Wohlgerissene unnd in Holtz geschnittene Figuren, dergleichen niemahlen gesehen worden. Von den fürtrefflichsten künstlichsten unnd Berühmbtesten Mahlern, Reissern unnd Formschneidern. Als nemblich Albrecht Dürer, Hanß Holbeyn, ....
Object type: book
Date: 1620 – 1620
Location: germany
Artist: hans weiditz the younger
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1500 – 1536
Shepherd Boy with Lambs in Woods
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: board, chalk, paper
Location: england
Artist: george morland
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1763 – 1804
Troops at Rest
Object type: painting
Date: 1725 – 1725
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: jean-baptiste joseph pater
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1695 – 1736
Subjects: tents,soldiers,men,women,donkeys,horses
Puppeteer with Puppet
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1761 – 1839
Materials: ink, silk
Culture: japanese
Artist: tsukioka sessai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1761 – 1839
Subjects: men,women,puppets
Winged Putto Crowning a Seated Woman Who Looks to the Left
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
Subjects: women,putti
Capitulatie waar op Nicolaas Francois Foreis de Breda...
Object type: document
Date: 1748 – 1748
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: writing
Location: the hague
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: date
Inkstone with dragon and carp
Object type: inkstone
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: stoneware
Culture: chinese

This unusual inkstone is carved from a type of stoneware known as chengni, or “filtered clay.” Made from very fine silted clay that has undergone a labor-intensive process of filtering, kneading, molding, firing, and carving, chengni inkstones became popular during the Song dynasty (960–1279). The vigorous carving style of this piece, however, dates it to the fourteenth century. The inkstone’s decoration invokes the myth that a carp, should it succeed in swimming upstream through the Dragon Gate of the Yellow River, will become a dragon. A metaphor for success on the civil service exam, here, the gulf between carp and dragon is defined by the inkstone and inkwell—whose diligent use might well decide the difference between failure and success.
Quae Genus with a Spendthrift
Object type: print
Techniques: aquatint, etching
Artist: thomas rowlandson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1757 – 1827
Subjects: interiors,men,women,drinking
Eglise russe a Paris
Object type: stereoscopic photograph
Date: 1856 – 1890
Materials: glass, paper
Techniques: slide
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior), street
Inscriptions: number: ‘4189’
Wine decanter
Object type: wine decanter
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: silver
Techniques: gilding
Artist: simon petrus conrad
Artist role: maker
Artist dates: 1771 – 1793

This decanter was used to serve mulled wine. The sculpted snake holding an apple in its mouth and resting on the scroll handle symbolizes temptation, serving as a warning not to drink too much. Restrained gilded lines emphasize the decanter’s harmonious form, and the spectacular design clearly signals the imagination and technical ability of the artist, who transformed valuable metal into a work of art. Less than a dozen related vessels have survived. Ambassador Salgo owned a second example (acc. no. 2010.110.61a, b). Another decanter is owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein and is prominently displayed in the family’s palace in Vienna.
Karelsbrug gezien richting Malá Strana en Hradčany, Praag
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: dresden
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', river, bridge
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘Stengel & Co/ 1897/ Dresden’, inscription: ‘Praag/ 2103. Karlsbrücke und Kleinseite’, stamp: ‘Hans Mengelberg/ Utrecht’
Marble bird's-nest bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1800 – 1700
Materials: marble
Culture: minoan

Bird's nest bowl, plain with rounded shoulder and small mouth. Minoan artists crafted vessels from a variety of stones using chisels, hammers, and copper-alloy saws. Finer tools like copper drills with abrasives were employed to hollow out their interiors. These vessels were durable versions of standard terracotta and metal forms, made with such high quality that they were exported throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. Stoneware has been found in settlements, cemeteries, and sanctuaries alike; the smallest examples were likely votive offerings. Particularly popular and long-lived forms are bird’s-nest (such as this one) and blossom bowls (see 24.150.2 for example), the latter perhaps imitating Egyptian lotus flowers in bloom. Both likely served as containers for ointments.
Saint-Sauveur, Colonne de la Duchess de Berry
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1855 – 1865
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, photography
Location: luz-saint-sauveur
Artist: charles paul furne
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1824 – 1875
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 52.’