deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Frank Johnson, Leader of the Brass Band of the 128th Regiment in Saratoga, with his wife, Helen
Object type: cut paper
Date: 1842 – 1844
Materials: board, paper
Techniques: cutting
Artist: auguste edouart
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1789 – 1861
Subjects: men,women,trumpets

Silhouettes must have first appeared in England in about 1700, when William and Mary reportedly had their profiles done. By the 1720s, silhouettes—or shades as they were known in Great Britain—had become an established novelty, and by the end of the century their popularity had spread to France. By the end of the eighteenth century, a few French silhouettists had introduced profiles to the United States; however, it was not until the summer of 1839 that Auguste Edouart, the most prolific silhouettist ever to work in the United States, arrived in New York. Driven from France by hard times under Napoleon, Edouart first immigrated to England in 1815, where he worked as a French teacher and made portraits of animals in wax. In 1825, he cut his first silhouette, supposedly at a dinner party in response to a dare to produce a better profile than one owned by his host; many more silhouettes of English men and women followed. Upon his arrival in New York, Edouart traveled to Saratoga where he was to spend five summers and created hundreds of silhouettes of vacationers, those of Frank and Helen Johnson among them. Edouart's delicate rendering of Johnson's trumpet is typical of his meticulous work. During his extensive travels throughout the United States, Edouart cut silhouettes of many eminent Americans, creating a visual record of the period. His last silhouette was cut on August 16, 1845. The artist set sail on the "Oneida" with the intention of returning to France in 1849. The ship was wrecked off the coast of Guernsey, and Edouart escaped the disaster with ten albums of British silhouettes and six albums of American silhouettes; approximately forty albums were lost. Edouart gave all of his surviving silhouettes to the Lukis family, who cared for him until he was well enough to return to France. Eventually, all but one of the albums were broken up and sold to descendants of the sitters. The 861 unsold silhouettes were purchased by the Reverend Glenn Tilley Morse of Newburyport and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1950.
Allegory
Object type: drawing
Date: 1532 – 1577
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: orazio samacchini
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1532 – 1577
Subjects: male nudes,lions
Groupes Nouveaux
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1855 – 1870
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: paris
Artist: anatole pougnet
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1840 – 1900
Subjects: sleeping in chair, book, bedroom
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘Collection A.P. Paris’
Plateau
Object type: plateau
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: luster painting, glazing
Subjects: cross

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. The Christian (or Christianized) potter superimposed a pattern of Latin crosses over this dish, the border of which was actually molded in raised, slanting gadroons, similar to those on a deep dish also in the Museum's collection (see 94.4.379).
Ritual libation vessel
Object type: religious ritual object
Materials: bronze
Techniques: casting
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Beker op drievoet, met een uitkragende rand en een grote schenktuit. Twee oren en twee opstaande knoppen aan de rand.
Disk Brooch
Object type: brooch
Date: 501 – 600
Materials: gemstone, glass, gold foil, iron, paste, silver
Culture: frankish
Moerbalk van beschilderd eikenhout
Object type: ceiling
Date: 1631 – 1631
Materials: wood
Location: northern netherlands

Moerbalk van geschilderd eikenhout. Horend bij een balkenzoldering afkomstig uit het huis De Munnik, Wijnstraat 54, Dordrecht.
Huwelijksaankondiging aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: wedding announcement
Date: 1896 – 1896
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Location: leiden
Artist: pieter jacobus mulder
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1836 – 1923
Subjects: haarlem, antonius gerardus van hamel, the hague, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Staand kind in een deuropening
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1885 – 1902
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: jozef israëls
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1911
Subjects: hand(s) towards the mouth, child

Het kind reikt met de rechterhand naar de mond. Blad 16 recto uit een schetsboek met 17 bladen.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 525 – 501
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, part of an animal pelt?
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Taken on the Field, Crimea
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1855
Techniques: albumen print
Location: england
Artist: roger fenton
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1819 – 1869
Subjects: collected by hugh edwards
Deer (recto); Skull of Giraffe (verso)
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, graphite, paper
Location: england
Artist: attributed to edwin henry landseer
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1802 – 1873
Man Playing Lawn Tennis, Ascending and Descending a Step, and Ascending a Ladder
Object type: fotosequentie, pocketcinema
Date: 1887 – 1887
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: united states
Subjects: tennis, lawn-tennis
Inscriptions: number: ‘PLATE 486’, copyright notice: ‘Copyright 1887, by EADWARD MUYBRIDGE. All rights reserved.’, number

While Muybridge initially limited his studies of motion to a horse galloping, he later branched out and experimented with other animals and people. This resulted in the publication of Animal Locomotion in 1887, which included 781 plates of moving horses, elephants, lions, storks, other animals, and people. He had them walk, run, and fly a fixed track, and set up banks of cameras to record their motion.
Severed head, said to be that of Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), guillotined July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1794 – 1794
Materials: graphite
Location: france
Artist: baron dominique vivant denon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1747 – 1825
Subjects: hands,heads

Drawing was only one of Denon’s many pursuits; he was also a collector, a printmaker, a diplomat, and an arts administrator. Among other achievements, he accompanied and documented Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign and was the first director of the museum known today as the Louvre. Denon’s sketches reflect his sensitivity to politics as well as his urge to document. The three mounted together here (see also 62.119.8a and 62.119.8c) were apparently made during, or soon after, meetings of the National Convention, a new governing body that formally abolished the monarchy, among other acts. All of the men depicted were directly or indirectly associated with the period of violent unrest during the Revolution known as the Reign of Terror and ultimately fell victim to the guillotine themselves.
Portret van Cornelis Hop
Object type: print
Date: 1749 – 1759
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: cornelis hop (ii)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

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.
Frederick Langenheim
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1851
Techniques: daguerreotype
Artist: w. & f. langenheim
Artist role: photography studio
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1843 – 1874
Subjects: men,portraits
German, Peasant in Holiday Attire, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: women

Trade cards from the "Types of Nationalities" series (N240), issued in 1890 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company. Each card is meant to be folded into thirds. Unfolded the card displays a figure from a particular nationality. Folded, the same figure is portrayed smoking a Kinney Brothers Cigarette.
Sanatorium bij Bad Honnef
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1895 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: bad honnef
Artist: david vermeulen
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: specialized institutions
Glass beaker
Object type: beaker
Date: 301 – 400
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Colorless with pale green tinge; trails in same color. Outsplayed, rounded rim; tall body with slightly convex side, tapering downwards. On body, decoration comprising four horizontal trails, one below rim, two others on upper body with a zigzag pattern overlaid between them, below this eight vertical trails that end where another horizontal trail runs around lower body; the vertical trails of two different types, one of a double overlapping pattern, the other of a row of pinched, rounded projections, alternating around body. Broken and repaired, with large cracks and large part of lower body and whole of foot and bottom missing; a few bubbles; dulling, whitish weathering, iridescence, and limy soil encrustation.
Design for a House, North Elevation
Object type: drawing
Date: 1883 – 1883
Materials: graphite
Artist: w. strong
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 19 – 19
Subjects: architecture
Snowshoeing, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men

The "Games and Sports" series of trading cards (N165) was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1889 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards in the series.
Koeien naast een rij bomen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1876 – 1888
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: anton mauve
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1888
Subjects: cow

Blad 13 verso uit een schetsboek met 34 bladen.
Sutra cover with dragons amid clouds
Object type: sutra cover
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: textile, silk
Techniques: patterning, weave
Culture: chinese
Subjects: dragons,clouds
Presentiepenning van het Metselaarsgilde te Zierikzee
Object type: medal
Date: 1600 – 1800
Materials: brass
Techniques: engraving
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘N 16’, circumscription: ‘HET METZELAARS AMBACHT’

Fors rond messing plaatje gegraveerd op de voorzijde een versierd wapenschild Zierikzee met omschrift, op de keerzijde een troffel en de tekst N 16
Textile Fragment
Object type: textile fragment
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk, silver, thread
Techniques: brocade, weave
Location: turkey
Gewicht uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: weight scale component
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: lead
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Disc-shaped weight, circular, flat top and underside, rounded edge.
F. d' Ulietca from playing cards "Jeu d'Or"
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Techniques: etching, hand coloring
Artist: anonymous, french, 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1700 – 1800
Subjects: bow and arrow,men,portraits,playing cards
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1894 – 1894
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, printing, writing
Location: london
Artist: elbert jan van wisselingh
Artist role: kunsthandelaar
Artist dates: 1848 – 1912
Subjects: joseph bouwens, klaas groesbeek, j. craibe angus, the hague, painter, philip zilcken, the graphic arts, historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life), rotterdam
Inscriptions: watermark, collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Engels-Franse oorlog, penning van de rekenkamer van Vlaanderen te Rijssel, ter ere van Karel V, Duits keizer
Object type: jeton
Date: 1543 – 1546
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking
Location: flanders
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ghent, charles v (holy roman emperor and king of spain), lille

Koperen penning. Voorzijde: portret van Karel V met kroon, rijksappel in linkerhand en zwaard over rechterschouder binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: ruitergevecht binnen omschrift
Screen panel
Object type: screen panel
Date: 1751 – 1800
Materials: silk
Subjects: flowers
Familiegeschiedenis van het geslacht de' Medici (deel 1)
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1583 – 1583
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: battle, fighting in general, street-fights, riots, rome

De jonge Giovanni de Medici, bijgenaamd 'dalle Bande Nere', wordt tijdens een straatgevecht op de Engelenbrug omsingeld door leden van de Orsini-familie. Hij slaat wild om zich heen met zijn zwaard en jaagt de belegeraars op de vlucht. Rechts vlucht een gezin weg van de onveilige situatie. De standbeelden aan het begin van de brug verbeelden Paulus en Petrus. In de ondermarge twee regels tekst in het Latijn. Linksonder is het nummer 1 met pen veranderd in 4. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Karel Frederik van den Berg zittend met een baby in zijn armen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1895 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: batavia, karel frederik van den berg
Kintai Bridge in Suō Province (Suō no kuni Kintaibashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)
Object type: print
Date: 1827 – 1830
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: bridges,landscapes
Schets van bomen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1628 – 1652
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: jan both
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1618 – 1652
Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles, 1888-1889, No. 2495: Tissus et Foulards de la M.on LE HOUSSEL (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1888 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: brooch, agraffe, clasp (+ women's clothes), gloves, mittens (long gloves) (+ women's clothes), shoes, sandals (+ girls' clothes), belt, girdle, waistband (+ girls' clothes), fashion plates, dress, gown (+ women's clothes), fan (+ women's clothes), dress, gown (+ girls' clothes)
Inscriptions: title: ‘JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES DEMOISELLES’, address: ‘ADMINISTRATION: PARIS, 3,r. du Quatre-Septembre-BRUXELLES, 33, r. Blaes’, caption: ‘Tissus et Foulards de la M.on LE HOUSSEL, 1, r. Auber. Veloutine FAY, 9, r. de la Paix. Parfums, Cosmetiques et Sapocétis de GUERLAIN, parfumeur, 15, r. de la Paix, Paris. Corsets Anne d'Autriche et Ceinture-Régente de la M.on de VERTUS SOEURS, 12, r. Auber. Lait Antéphélique pour le Teint de CANDÉS & CIE, 26, B.d S.t Denis.’

Twee vrouwen en een meisje in een interieur. Links: kinderkleding; meisje in een jurk met ceintuur. Vrouw in een ensemble: getailleerd jasje, rok met queue. Accessoires: broche, chatelaine, handschoenen. Rechts: japon met streepmotief. Onder de voorstelling enkele regels reclametekst voor verschillende producten. Prent uit het modetijdschrift Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles (1841-1902).
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1501 – 1700
Materials: linen, silk
Straat in Rigi Kaltbad
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1851 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: street

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Actress wearing red fringed fez, from Stars of the Stage, First Series (N129) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Stars of the Stage, First Series" (N129), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1890 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.
Mogelijk afgietsel van een Korintisch kapiteel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: capital (~ column, pillar), corinthian order ~ architecture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Rijks opleidingsinstituut/ voor teekenleeraren/ vrb hooger: middelb:/ & nijverheidsonderwijs/ Rijksmuseum/ Amsterdam’, collector's mark: Lugt 3937
Spoelbak met keukengerei
Object type: photograph
Date: 1920 – 1930
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: sink (kitchen), dutch east indies, the

Onderdeel van familiealbum Nederlands-Indië.
The Sumo Wrestler Tanikaze and the Waitress Okita of the Naniwaya
Object type: print
Date: 1794 – 1794
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: katsukawa shuncho
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1781 – 1795
Coney Island
Object type: photograph
Date: 1905 – 1908
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: new york city
Artist: geldolph adriaan kessler (dolph)
Artist role: fotograaf, industrieel, voetballer
Artist dates: 1884 – 1945
Inscriptions: title: ‘Coney Island’

Recreatiepark op Coney Island, voor de kraam van Delft Candy Kitchen. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum van Dolph Kessler met opnamen die hij maakte tijdens zijn verblijf in Engeland en op een wereldreis die hij als secretaris van Henri Deterding (directeur Koninklijke Olie) ondernam naar Nederlands-Indië, Japan, China en de Verenigde Staten, tussen 1906 en 1908.
Lace
Object type: lace
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: linen
Culture: italian
Aanleg van de haven van Taganrog door Mathieu Simontof 1709
Object type: history medal
Date: 1709 – 1709
Materials: tin
Techniques: striking

Ovalen tinnen penning, op de voorzijde het borstbeeld van Tsaar Peter de Grote naar rechts met omschrift, op de keerzijde de plattegrond van het fort en de haven van Taganrog met omschrift en afsnedetekst.
Portrait of J. Sylvain Bailly
Object type: relief sculpture
Date: 1789 – 1789
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, relief
Location: valenciennes
Subjects: paris, politician, mayor
Inscriptions: signature and date: ‘1789 // Renaud’

Portret van porselein in biscuit. Het portret toont J. Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), in 1789 burgemeester van Parijs. Gesigneerd en gedateerd met '1789 Renaud'.
Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing, 26-31 oktober 1909
Object type: print
Date: 1909 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: utrecht
Subjects: voorschoten, print maker, joan françois obbes, criticizing and discussing art, art criticism, prospect of village, silhouette of village, circle, club of artists, collecting and exhibiting products of the fine arts
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Bomen en dorp. Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing op 26-31 oktober 1909 van etsen van J.F. Obbes, kunstschilder te Apeldoorn.
Slop bowl
Object type: slop bowl
Date: 1735 – 1735
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: vienna
Artist role: manufactory
Subjects: buildings

The tour-de-force painting of a continuous landscape on this bowl shows the level of quality that Schwarzlot porcelain was capable of reaching at Du Paquier. The name of the artist is unknown, but his hand is evident on other pieces painted with similar Dutch or Italian views. Monochrome landscapes, whether painted in black, purple, or red, appear to have been popular at the manufactory in the 1730s.
Dancing Nymph (Nymphe Danseuse), from "L'Estampe Originale"
Object type: print
Date: 1895 – 1895
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: walter crane
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1845 – 1915
Subjects: dancing,nymphs
Tureen with Cover
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1745 – 1746
Materials: metal, silver
Location: london
Artist: peter archambo
Set of six miniature saucers
Object type: saucer
Date: 1720 – 1730
Materials: silver
Artist: david clayton
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1659 – 1719

The production of miniature silver furniture and tea, coffee, and chocolate equipment was a specialty of goldsmiths known as "toy men." The miniatures were probably intended for dollhouses. From the mid-eighteenth century in England until the present, porcelain and fine earthenware miniatures have been made as well.
Tiger attacking an antelope
Object type: group
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: stone
Artist: antoine-louis barye
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1795 – 1875
Subjects: hunting,tigers
Gezicht op Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Object type: page
Date: 1896 – 1901
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: rothenburg ob der tauber
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions
Nouueau liure de Desseins (...) / A New Booke of Drawing (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1693 – 1693
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: london
Subjects: vine-tendril, leaf, satyr(s) (in general), signboard, cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een ontwerp voor een in ijzer te drijven uithangteken voor een wijnhandelaar. Gedecoreerd met saters en een putto temidden van druivenranken. Rechts onder 14 genummerd.
Stocking leg
Object type: stocking
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: lace
Guqin (古琴 )
Object type: qin
Date: 1667 – 1766
Materials: mother of pearl, silk, wood
Culture: chinese
Location: china

Endowed with cosmological and metaphysical significance and empowered to communicate the deepest feelings, this zither, beloved of sages and of Confucius, is the most prestigious instrument in China. Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) writers state that the qin helped to cultivate character, understand morality, supplicate gods and demons, enhance life, and enrich learning. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) literati who claimed the right to play the qin suggested that it be played outdoors in a mountain setting, a garden or a small pavilion or near an old pine tree (symbol of longevity) while burning incense perfumed the air. A serene moonlit night was considered an appropriate time for performance. Each part of the instrument is identified by an anthropomorphic or zoomorphic name and cosmology is ever present: for example, the upper board of wutong wood symbolizes heaven, the bottom board of zi wood symbolizes earth. Qins over a hundred years old are considered best, the age determined by the pattern of cracks (duanwen) in the lacquer. The 13 studs (hui) indicate finger positions. Strings of varying thicknesses are traditionally made of twisted silk.
Standing Bodhisattva
Object type: figure
Date: 1501 – 1700
Materials: gilt bronze
Culture: nepali
Subjects: buddhism,bodhisattvas