deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portrait of Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Object type: bust
Date: 1822 – 1825
Materials: marble
Location: rome
Artist: adamo tadolini
Artist role: sculptor
Artist dates: 1788 – 1868
Subjects: venice, painter, draughtsman, antonio canova

This frail old man is Antonio Canova, the most celebrated sculptor in Europe around 1800, and a model for many of Rome’s young artists. Despite its lifelike appearance, the sculpture was made after Canova’s death, based on his death mask. Perhaps it was Adamo Tadolini who made the sculpture; he was one of Canova’s last assistants and may have indented this as a tribute to his former master.
Het ombrengen van Cornelis en Iohan de With. In s'Gravenhage anno 1672
Object type: print
Date: 1698 – 1698
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jan luyken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1649 – 1712
Subjects: dordrecht, cornelis de witt, the hague, johan de witt, lynching, attempt, political murder, violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death (+ death by lynching)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 195

Andere staat van prent ook gebruikt in: Bosch, Lambert van den. Treur-toonneel der doorluchtige mannen, of op- en ondergang der grooten, vertoont in de rampzalige geschiedenissen van (…). 3 delen. Amsterdam: Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1698, dl. 3, afd. 6, p. 48.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 540 – 500
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, part of eyebrow and eye; above the eyebrow, at the left, hand and wrist of a figure to right
Dieren en fabelwezens
Object type: print
Date: 1565 – 1630
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: rome
Subjects: rodents: musk-rat
Inscriptions: number: ‘184’, collector's mark: Lugt 11

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een reeks prenten van dieren door Antonio Tempesta. Bekend is dat een tweede staat (met nummering) van deze serie is uitgegeven door Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi in 1650. Onbekend is wie de eerste staat heeft uitgegeven en wanneer.
Japonstrook van applicatiekant met hangende bloemen
Object type: strip
Date: 1820 – 1840
Materials: linen
Techniques: lace
Location: brussels
Artist: Anonymous

Japonstrook naturelkleurige applicatiekant, naaldkant geappliceerd op machinale tule, point d'Angleterre. Een rand van ronde schulpen wordt gevormd door een aaneegesloten rij van grote bloemen die, naar rechts, van kleine bloemtakjes afhangen. Los daarboven loopt een smalle rand van een golvende tak met kleinere soortgelijke bloemen. Het bovendeel bestaat uit een fond van onversierde tule. Twee smallere stroken hebben eenzelfde, en een verkleind patroon.
Bowl with Floral Medallions
Object type: vessel
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Techniques: painting
Location: china
Terracotta oil lamp
Object type: lamp
Date: 200 – 101
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek

Wheel-made. Large central filling hole with horizontal rim, surrounded by a tall, flaring collar; carinated body; high base ring, and deep, concave base, decorated with one circular groove. Applied long nozzle, humped below, tapering to an elongated wick hole; an applied pointed lug on left side of body. Intact.
Houten kar in een tuin
Object type: glasnegatief, glasplaatnegatief
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: glass
Techniques: collodion process
Artist: laurens lodewijk kleijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1826 – 1909
Subjects: hand-cart

Onderdeel van een groep glasnegatieven uit de nalatenschap van de schilder Laurens Lodewijk Kleijn, met stillevens, portretten, zelfportretten en kunstreproducties.
Portret van Jean Casimir de Brunet
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1876
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Subjects: knighthood order, historical persons (+ (full) bust portrait)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De geportretteerde draagt onderscheidingen om zijn hals en op zijn borst. Onder het portret zijn signatuur, familiewapens en beroep.
Soestdijk
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1890 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: soestdijk
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: palace
St. Andrew's mission house, Shiba, Tokyo
Object type: page
Date: 1889 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: tokyo
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: façade (of house or building), spreading the gospel; missionary work
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘(Residence of the Bishop, 1887-1893.)’
Gezicht op tuin en kasteelruïne in Tiflis
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: tbilisi
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: garden, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city, ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc.
Inscriptions: number: ‘1295’, number: ‘5’

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum met opnames van bezienswaardigheden in Georgië, Sint-Petersburg en Moskou.
The Pleasures of Fishes
Object type: handscroll
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: chinese
Artist: zhou dongqing
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 13 – 13
Subjects: fish

Zhou Dongqing was a friend of Wen Tianxiang (1236–1283), the famous Song loyalist and a fellow native of Jiangsi Province. Zhou's painting was inspired by a passage from the Daoist classic Zhuangzi (ca. fourth century B.C.), in which Zhuangzi, strolling along a river, observes, "See how the minnows come out and dart around where they please! That's what fish really enjoy!" His companion Huizi remarks, "You're not a fish—how do you know what fish enjoy?" Zhuangzi replies, "You are not I, so how do you know I don't know what fish enjoy?" In the inscription at the end of the painting the artist has written: Not being fish, how do we know their happiness? But we may express our feelings in our painting. In order to probe the subtleties of the ordinary, We must describe the indescribable. Painted on paper instead of silk, the work's muted colors and flat patterns of pale inkwash evoke a mood of detachment and withdrawal, which Zhou's inscription reinforces. Born in Linjiang, not far from the Daoist center at Mount Longhu (Dragon Tiger Mountain), Zhou may have been strongly influenced by Daoism.
Deep Dish
Object type: dish
Date: 1501 – 1550
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Culture: spanish
Location: spain

Lusterware is the term used to describe a glazed earthenware ceramic decorated with an iridescent finish. The technique for creating this finish was developed in the ninth century under the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate in present-day Iraq. The medium involves a technique that is difficult to master, but if completed successfully, the surfaces of the ceramic objects display an iridescent sheen which is achieved through multiple firings and the application of a metal-based pigment (including silver, copper, tin, or a combination of these). Lusterware manufacture is still difficult to understand from a technical perspective because for generations, production was kept secret to protect workshop practices from being replicated by competitors. Therefore, pigment formulas and trade techniques were passed down from master to pupil and rarely recorded. Knowledge of the technique for creating lusterware made its way to the Iberian Peninsula by the twelfth century, when most of the region was still under Islamic rule. By the 1400s, the Iberian center of lusterware production was in Manises, near the city of Valencia. Previously a Muslim taifa, or principality, the Kingdom of Valencia was conquered in the thirteenth century by James I for the Crown of Aragon, and it was here that Christians and Muslim potters worked, sometimes together, for a diverse clientele with a voracious appetite for high quality lustered wares.
Christus en de twaalf apostelen, en H. Paulus
Object type: print
Date: 1580 – 1613
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture, the apostle james the less, first bishop of jerusalem; possible attributes: book, fuller's club, scroll, james is stoned, or beaten to death (with a fuller's club)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

De heilige Jakobus de Mindere staat tussen twee zuilen in een architecturale omlijsting. Hij leest in een boek dat hij in zijn hand houdt. Met zijn andere hand leunt hij tegen een voldersknuppel. Op de achtergrond is te zien hoe mannen met voldersknuppels op het hoofd van Jakobus slaan. In het kader onderaan een drieregelig onderschrift in het Latijn.
Zaal met houtgravures en gegraveerd hout
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1892 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: permanent exhibition, museum, print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph (+ stadia of production of work of art)
Plate
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1765 – 1770
Materials: ceramic, porcelain, soft paste porcelain
Techniques: underglaze
Location: worcester
Paris. Avenue de l'Opéra
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1904 – 1906
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: avenue, boulevard, promenade, esplanade (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), opera house
Gezicht op het Monument to the Great Fire of London
Object type: print
Date: 1752 – 1752
Materials: paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, etching
Location: london
Subjects: monument, statue, street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: date

De serie “Londen” bevat 52 prenten met de nummers 1-52, waarvan dit nummer 29 is.
Portret van een jonge vrouw
Object type: photograph
Date: 1876 – 1879
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: brussels
Subjects: adolescent, young woman, maiden, historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Günther/ Bruxelles/ RUE NEUVE 23.’
L'eau-forte en 1878
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1878
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, intaglio
Location: paris
Subjects: first communion, interior of church
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, watermark, collector's mark: ‘AFE v S’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Dish with Heraldic Shield
Object type: plate
Date: 1470 – 1500
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Culture: spanish
Location: spain
Subjects: coat of arms

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Valencian potters created new forms, modeled after contemporary metalwork, with raised studs and ribbing. These objects were often embellished with an overall dot-and-stalk pattern, which served as a field surrounding a family crest.
Vijzel met stamper, met bandversiering
Object type: mortar
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: brass
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Vijzel van geelkoper met bandversiering; stamper met drie knopen.
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1701 – 1733
Materials: metal thread, silk
Culture: chinese
Subjects: dragons
King of Hearts, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: men,playing cards,horns
Architectura Curiosa Nova
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1664 – 1664
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: nuremberg

Pan zit op een rotsformatie van de fontein en speelt op zijn fluit. Blad 6 uit deel IV van een serie bestaande uit 226 bladen, verdeeld over vier boeken, elk met een eigen titelblad.
Overhandiging van een brief
Object type: print
Date: 1658 – 1677
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Artist: wallerant vaillant
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1623 – 1677
Subjects: letter, envelope
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 10, collector's mark: Lugt 11

Een oude vrouw steunt op een stoel en overhandigt een brief aan een jonge vrouw, die dezelfde stoel vasthoudt.
Two Nude Models
Object type: print
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: paper, zinc
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Artist: théophile-alexandre steinlen
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french, born switzerland
Artist dates: 1859 – 1923
The Baptism of Christ
Object type: print
Date: 1630 – 1630
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: belgium
Artist: willem panneels
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1600 – 1632
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: “2”; lower left, in graphite: “APA 5332”
Zeegezicht met zeilschepen
Object type: print
Date: 1631 – 1675
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: allaert van everdingen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1621 – 1675
Subjects: sea (seascape) (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Landschap met rotspartij en zeegezicht met enkele zeilschepen. Op het land, naast een rots, zijn drie personen afgebeeld.
Fotoreproductie van een prent van het interieur van de Mozes en Aäronkerk te Amsterdam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1935 – 1960
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: interior of church
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Lichtbeelden-Instituut. Heerengracht 284. Amsterdam. Reproductie verboden.’, collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kerkwezen: R.K. Gemeenten: Begijnhof t/m Petrus en Paulus.
Allerlei soorten zingende vogels onder leiding van een uil
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1778
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, roulette
Location: london
Subjects: birds, animals acting as human beings, more than one musician with instrument
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Papegaaien, pauwen, een havik, een adelaar, zangvogels, een zwaan, een toekan, een gaai, een grutto, hoppen, kraaien, eksters, een vleermuis, zwaluwen, mussen, duiven en meer.
Pinchushion
Object type: textile
Date: 1820 – 1820
Materials: ribbon, silk, wool
Techniques: knitting, weave
Location: united states
Inscriptions: Inscription: A H  1820
Dressing Glass
Object type: furniture
Date: 1740 – 1760
Materials: wood
Location: boston
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1700 – 1799
Model of a Careening Hulk
Object type: ship model
Date: 1800 – 1858
Materials: brass, ivory, fiber, wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Candlestick
Object type: candlestick
Date: 1800 – 1800
Materials: silver
Location: england
Artist: matthew boulton
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1728 – 1809
Wandbetimmering met uitsparing
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: europe
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: column, pillar ~ architecture, wall-covering, europe
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL QUELLINUS AMSTERDAM FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’, collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST-NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16 AMSTERDAM’, number: ‘(Kat 16)’, number: ‘XI’, number: ‘23’
Low stool
Object type: stool
Date: 1981 – 1802
Materials: wood
Location: egypt

This low, four-legged stool had an openwork rush seat woven on a square wooden frame. Only a part of rush seat remains.
Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Maple Leaves, Curtain, and Large Drum
Object type: piece from a kosode
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: dyeing, embroidery, painting, resist
Culture: japanese

Even in the absence of any figures, the pictorial design on this textile can be tentatively identified as the autumn excursion to the Suzaku Palace in chapter 7 of The Tale of Genji. Here, the scene is set for Genji’s dance: it is performed within an enclosed curtained space under brilliant maple leaves with a drum accompaniment. A stairway and post suggest palace architecture.
Fragment
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk
Techniques: painting, weave
Location: china
Interieur van de Remonstrantse Kerk te Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1771 – 1771
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: interior of church, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kerkwezen: Remonstrantse Gemeente.
Fringe
Object type: fringe
Date: 1650 – 1650
Materials: metal thread, silk
Fotoreproductie van een portret van Adelina Patti
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1860 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, opera-singer (female)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Figaro-Album/ A. Patti/ Liébert Phot.’
Fermenteerschuur, Langkat Sumatra
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: bindjai
Subjects: sumatra
Mondony waterval te Amélie-les-Bains
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1880 – 1910
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: trees, waterfall
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Amélie-les-Bains Cascade de Mondoni’
Heer en een dame staand voor een arme moeder en haar kinderen
Object type: poem
Date: 1654 – 1655
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, calligraphy
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690

Het gedicht is afkomstig van Jan Starter, die het publiceerde met muziek in zijn Friesche Lust-hof uit 1621 (het gedicht op p. 94f en de muziek op p. 73f, dezelfde melodie als hier). De voorstelling van de arme vrouw met kinderen is ook afgebeeld op folio 155a van het Familie-Plakboek van Gesina.
Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1267 – 1300
Materials: ceramic glaze, glaze, stoneware
Techniques: inlay
Culture: korean
Tuinvaas met monogram op voetstuk met monogram
Object type: print
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: gerrit visscher
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: ornaments ~ art, garden vase, letter combinations such as letterword, anagram, letter square, monogram, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Plate 30: Marcellus dedicating the spoils of war to Jupiter; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'
Object type: print, fete, ornament architecture
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: johannes meursius
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1600 – 1699
Subjects: armor,weapons,men,jupiter

On January 28, 1635, the city of Ghent celebrated the entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain, the recently appointed governor of the Southern Netherlands. A group of Flemish artists were commissioned to create paintings for the decoration of two triumphal arches erected in the city's main square for the occasion. Though the majority of these canvases are now lost, the engravings in Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis, S.R.E. Cardinalis, Triumphalis Introitus in Flandriae Metropolim Gandavum', Antwerp [1636], illustrate what the series looked like. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns 34 plates from the set of 42.
Plate 5. The Wanton turn'd out of Doors for Misconduct
Object type: print
Date: 1796 – 1796
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: london
Subjects: good and bad behaviour, moral qualities (opposing concepts), chastity versus sensuality, good and bad behaviour, moral qualities, unemployment - aa - women, proverbs, sayings, etc., maid ~ house personnel
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De losbandige dienstmaagd moet het huis verlaten, uitgeleide gedaan door de oude dienster en de nijvere dienstmaagd. Links bevinden zich een blinde straatmuzikant en een lootjesverkoopster, rechts is een vechtpartij gaande en staat een jongeman met lorgnet. De prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van een onbekende Zeeuwse vrouw in klederdracht
Object type: crayon enlargement
Date: 1894 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: a.j. meijer
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: folk costume, regional costume, anonymous historical person portrayed - bb - woman
Antherus I PP Graecus
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1587 – 1587
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, letterpress printing
Location: rome
Subjects: calabria, historical persons, pope, armorial bearing, heraldry

Prent uit: Ciccarelli, Antonio. Le vite de Pontefici di Antonio Ciccareli (...). Rome: Dominicus Basa, 1588. Prent ook gebruikt in latere edities.
Vlotschuitvoerdersgilde van Amsterdam, gildepenning van Flooris de Jong
Object type: medal
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: brass
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam

Messing penning. Voorzijde: schuit; daarboven drie naar beneden duikende vogels. Keerzijde: opschrift boven jaartal
Studie van borsten
Object type: drawing
Date: 1812 – 1861
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: jacobus everhardus josephus van den berg
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1802 – 1861
Subjects: breasts - aa - female human figure
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, unidentified subject and feet
Huis in een landschap
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1834 – 1903
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: johan hendrik weissenbruch
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1903
Subjects: farm or solitary house in landscape

Blad 22 verso uit een schetsboek met 32 bladen.
Portret van Frederik Hendrik, prins van Oranje
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1684
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: delft, the hague, frederick henry (prince of orange), knighthood order (garter) - insignia of a knighthood order, e.g.: badge, chain
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 963

Portret van Frederik Hendrik met een lauwerkrans in een ovaal van lauwerbladen met een aantal allegorische figuren en objecten. Midden boven zijn wapen met een kroon. Op een voetstuk zijn naam en elf blanco stedewapens. Op twee banderollen zijn lijfspreuk.
Textile Fragment
Object type: textile fragment
Date: 301 – 500
Materials: linen, wool
Techniques: brocade, weave
Location: egypt
Portret van John Everett Millais
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1881 – 1891
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: london, painter, designer, john everett millais, painter at work, in his studio
Inscriptions: inscription
Vase
Object type: vase
Date: 1897 – 1897
Materials: stoneware
Artist: pierre-adrien dalpayrat
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1844 – 1910
Cup and saucer
Object type: cup and saucer
Date: 1785 – 1785
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Subjects: flowers,insignia
Renard Continues with His Lies from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1675
Techniques: engraving
Artist: allart van everdingen
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1621 – 1675
Subjects: bears,birds,foxes,lions,rabbits
Portret van Willem van Haren
Object type: print
Date: 1679 – 1679
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: nijmegen
Artist: herman hendrik de quiter (i)
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1627 – 1708
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent voor het eerst gebruikt in: Quiter, Hermann Hendrik. Icones legatorum (...). Nijmegen: s.n., 1679.
Glass bracelet
Object type: bracelet
Materials: glass
Culture: greek or lydian

Translucent cobalt blue. Open circular band; round in section, tapering towards ends. Intact but broken, weathered ends; elongated bubbles; dulling, pitting, and patches of creamy weathering and iridescence. Most ancient glass bracelets are closed circles—for the obvious reason that they were much stronger and less likely to break than open ones such as this example. The few parallels that are known include a pair of bracelets in the Lydian Treasure that are decorated with gold lion's-head terminals and strung with a gold chain. It is very likely that this bracelet, too, had decorative finials.
Bingata Panel with Tree Peonies and Peacocks
Object type: bingata panel
Date: 1901 – 2000
Materials: cotton
Culture: japanese or ryukyuan
Artist: teruyo shinohara
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Subjects: peacocks,peonies