deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Elisa helpt een arme weduwe
Object type: print
Date: 1616 – 1636
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: the widow's oil: the little oil a woman has in store increases so that she and her son are able to fill many borrowed jars with it (2 kings 4:1-7)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een weduwe knielt voor Elisa en bedankt hem voor zijn hulp. Na het overlijden van haar man bleef de vrouw met een schuld achter, waardoor de schuldeiser haar twee zoons tot slaaf wilde maken. Om dat te voorkomen verrichte Elisa een wonder. Op zijn teken kon de weduwe met een kruikje oneindig veel vaten met olie vullen. Door de olie te verkopen kon ze haar schuld aflossen en haar zoons behouden. Op de achtergrond worden vaten met olie gevuld.
Le Magasin de Meubles
Object type: print
Date: 1878 – 1904
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: seating furniture

Een ronde confident (drie zitplaatsen naar elkaar waarbij men in tegenovergestelde richting kijkt). Prent uit 77e Livraison.
Pair of earrings (part of a set)
Object type: earring
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: iron
Kruk met gedraaide poten gedecoreerd met bladmotieven en een liggende figuur
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: stool
Inscriptions: number: ‘Vervalt’, collector's mark: ‘Instituut voor kunst-nijverheidsonderwijs Gabriël Metsustraat No. 16, Amsterdam’
Tulp (Tulipa)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1790 – 1814
Materials: paint, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: bruges
Artist: louis de graeve
Artist role: draughtsman
Subjects: flowers: tulip

Donkerrood-gele tulp. Genummerd rechtsboven: 24. Linksboven gemerkt met een rood sterretje. Onderdeel van het eerste album met tekeningen van bloemen en planten. Achtste van twaalf albums met tekeningen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend rond 1600, gemaakt in opdracht van keizer Rudolf II. Met toelichting in Nederlands, Latijn en Frans.
Three Salvers
Object type: print
Date: 1525 – 1600
Techniques: engraving
Artist: rené boyvin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1525 – 1598
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: silk
Culture: american
Artist: m. a. connelly
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: american, born ireland
Artist dates: 1834 – 1899
Donia werstal de derde grietenije van de Zevenwolden (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1698 – 1698
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: friesland
Subjects: coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.), (story of) ceres (demeter), maps of separate countries or regions, fishing (sports), fame; 'fama', 'fama buona', 'fama chiara' (ripa), cheese
Inscriptions: label: ‘264’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 195

Linksboven cartouche met titel en bestuurlijke informatie over de grietenij. Daaromheen vijf vrouwfiguren, waaronder Fama en mogelijk Ceres, en de wapens van Doniawerstal en van grietman jonker Taco van Burmania. Linksonder legenda. Rechts een schaalstok: Een halve gemeene Duytze myle van 15 in een graad of 1000 konings roeden welker 1200 maaken een uire gaans. Daaromheen putti, vissersgerei, vee, kazen en een man en een vrouw.
Saint Cloud (?)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1773 – 1843
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: georges michel
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1763 – 1843
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc. (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)

Een van 120 tekeningen, afkomstig uit een 19e eeuws album met tekeningen van Georges Michel.
Bloem en een Afrikaanse vrouw die een kruik op het hoofd draagt
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1916 – 1945
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: reijer stolk
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1896 – 1945
Subjects: flowers, africans, carrying something on the head or on the shoulders
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven in potlood

Tevens studies van het hoofd van een Afrikaan en decoratieve patronen. Blad 32 verso uit een schetsboek met 60 bladen.
A Girl with an Attendant
Object type: print
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: isoda koryūsai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1735 – 1790
Subjects: girls
Assumption of the Virgin (recto); Figure Sketches (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: chalk, graphite, ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: anonymous, italian, 16th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1500 – 1600
Subjects: angels,virgin mary,assumption of the virgin
Portret van Johann Nicolaus Weislinger
Object type: print
Date: 1720 – 1751
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: leipzig
Artist: johann christoph sysang
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1703 – 1757
Subjects: clergyman, writing tools, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Two tea caddies
Object type: tea caddy
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: copper
Techniques: enamel painting
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous

Eyso de Wendt was employed by the VOC. He left for the East Indies in 1734 and held various offices in Canton between 1746 and 1757. While there he ordered various armorial porcelain services as well as this copper tea caddy.
Gezicht op het verblijf van de vogels in Artis
Object type: drawing
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: amsterdam
Artist: friedrich wilhelm wittig
Artist dates: 1854 – 1912
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', zoo (as place of recreation)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘zie het boek (...) 22 N. 689’, inscription: ‘Fr. Wittig / Erinnerungen (...) No 462 / 1088’, name: ‘In Artis Natura Magistra. / F. Wittig fecit.’, inscription: ‘Legaat Joh. M. Coffeng / 1966’, collector's mark: ‘51B / VDE 8.12.'86’, number: ‘76’
Single Spout Monkey Figure Bottle with Strap Handle
Object type: bottle
Date: 501 – 700
Materials: ceramic, pigment
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Subjects: monkeys
Stone spindle whorl
Object type: spindle whorl
Date: 2400 – 1900
Materials: stone
Culture: minoan

Similar whorls have been found as burial goods in tholos tombs at Koumasa and Porti in the Mesara, Crete. Besides serving as spindle whorls they may have been used as pendants or finials for pins.
Blad met patroon van bloemen met stippenfond
Object type: printed paper
Date: 1700 – 1850
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament derived from plant forms

Blad met patroon van bloemen met stippenfond.
Rinaldo en Armida
Object type: design
Date: 1683 – 1733
Materials: paint, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: bernard picart
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1673 – 1733
Subjects: sitting figure (+ two persons), armida
Ondergrondse Benzine-tanks
Object type: photograph
Date: 1938 – 1938
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: surabaya
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: asiatic races and peoples (indonesians), machines; parts of machines; tools and appliances, interior of industrial structures (regardless of the materials processed or the products made, dutch east indies, the
Inscriptions: date

Albumblad met een foto van enkele ondergrondse benzinetanks, vervaardigd in 1938 voor de B.P.M. (Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij). Een Indische man poseert tussen de tanks. Onderdeel van het fotoalbum van de N.V. Machinefabriek Braat te Soerabaja met foto's van verschillende producten voor de industrie uit de periode 1936-1953.
lac Léman, Ile de Salagnon et la Dent du Midi
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1889 – 1920
Materials: paper, photographic process
Location: lake geneva
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: island, lake, villa, mountains
Inscriptions: number: ‘18266.’
Liggende vrouw
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1879 – 1879
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: theo hanrath
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1853 – 1883
Subjects: lying figure - aa - female human figure

De polsen en enkels van vrouw zijn mogelijk samengebonden. Blad 18 recto uit een schetsboek met 27 bladen.
L'empereur Othon III - Miniature provenant d'un manuscrit, fin du Xe Siècle - Musée Condé, Chantilly
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1903 – 1932
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: emperor, permanent exhibition, museum, picture, painting
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘AFE v S’
Partisan
Object type: partisan
Date: 1600 – 1600
Materials: steel, textile, wood
Culture: german
Location: germany
Subjects: eagles,coat of arms
Disk Brooch
Object type: brooch
Date: 1 – 400
Materials: copper alloy
Culture: roman
Shoemaker North of China; Wandering Restaurant North of China
Object type: photograph
Date: 1869 – 1869
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: john thomson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Artist dates: 1837 – 1921
Subjects: men,eating
Mercury and Turtle
Object type: sculpture
Materials: marble
Culture: american
Artist: albert e. harnisch
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1843 – 1918
Subjects: boys

Little is known about Harnisch's career as a sculptor. He was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he studied with the French sculptor Joseph A. Bailly. Before establishing a studio in Rome in 1869, he exhibited several works at the Pennsylvania Academy, including "Mercury and Turtle" in 1862. That may have been a plaster model, which the sculptor then took to Italy with him, and translated to marble in 1879. The youthful Mercury, identified by his cap sits with head bent, peering downward.
Portret van Eduard Isaac Asser
Object type: photograph
Date: 1856 – 1858
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: louis wegner
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1816 – 1864
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Wegner’
Proportiestudie van een hoofd
Object type: drawing
Date: 1812 – 1861
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: jacobus everhardus josephus van den berg
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1802 – 1861
Subjects: head (human)
Nyenrode by Breukelen
Object type: print
Date: 1710 – 1710
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: castle

Prent uit: De Ridder-matige Huysen en Gesichten in de Provincie van Utrecht. Amsterdam: Joachim Ottens, [ca. 1710].
Nieuwjaarswens van de bezorger van NRC Handelsblad voor 2006
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 2005 – 2006
Materials: paper
Techniques: offset printed
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: delivery (of newspaper), calendar, almanac, newspaper, news-sheet

Nieuwjaarswens van de bezorger van NRC Handelsblad. Met een cartoon waarin Fokke en Sukke door de sneeuw een krant proberen te bezorgen. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en gewoonten in engeren zin, Volksleven, Volksbladen, Nieuwjaars- en Kerstwenschen.
Writing brush and cover
Object type: writing brush
Date: 1567 – 1600
Materials: lacquer
Techniques: carving
Culture: chinese
Subjects: animals,men
Landscape with Windmill
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: board, charcoal, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, drawing, scraping, stumping
Location: england
Artist: elizabeth murray
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1815 – 1882
Veld van zestien tegels met dieren
Object type: tile
Date: 1580 – 1625
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: maiolica
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Veld van zestien tegels (4 x 4) elk met een veelkleurig (blauw, oranje, geel, groen, bruingroen en paars) geschilderd dier binnen een kwadraat. In de hoeken, vultechniek ornament.
Jong kind, vermoedelijk Else Wachenheimer-Moos, in kinderjurk met kort haar en met een ketting om haar nek, in een kinderstoel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: reutlingen
Artist: j. reinhardt
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: else wachenheimer-moos

Jong kind in kinderjurk met kort haar en met een ketting om haar nek, in een kinderstoel.
Frisia, sev, de Viris
Object type: print
Date: 1618 – 1620
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: friesland
Artist: pieter feddes van harlingen
Artist role: painter, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1586 – 1623
Subjects: ruler, sovereign
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Adel, tweede prins van Friesland. Staande ten voeten uit, hoorn in de hand, bij een tafel. In een ornamentale omlijsting. Illustratie, met tekst op achterzijde, afkomstig uit het boek: Frisia seu de viris rebusque Frisiae illustribus libri duo.
Portret van Louise de Coligny
Object type: print
Date: 1586 – 1629
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: louise de coligny, neck-gear: collar (+ women's clothes)

Portret van Louise in een ovaal met randschrift. In de ondermarge vijf regels Nederlandse tekst.
Panel with Heraldic Shield of Johnson
Object type: panel
Date: 1500 – 1500
Materials: glass, metal, paint
Culture: british
Subjects: coat of arms
Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)
Object type: bell krater fragment
Date: 450 – 440
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Bit of drapery; below, ground line
Sommeil
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1891 – 1896
Materials: paper
Techniques: photoaquatint
Location: paris
Subjects: sleeping in bed
Spice Pot
Object type: specerijpot
Date: 1660 – 1680
Materials: faience
Techniques: painted
Location: delft
Artist: Anonymous

Specerijenpot van faience, blauw beschilderd in het glazuur met een chinoiseriedecoratie. De cilindervormige pot, met twee c-vormige oren, rust op drie poten. Langs onder- en bovenrand van het lichaam een doorlopende rij gladde, bolle noppen.
Les delices de la Brenta
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: venice
Artist: giovanni francesco costa
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates:  – 1773
Subjects: river, hôtel, i.e. small palace in city

Gezicht op Palazzo del N. H. Foscari aan de rivier de Brenta. Genummerd midden onder: IX en rechtsonder: Tom: I. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Rustend kind en hond
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1905 – 1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: tot, toddler ~ the ages of man, resting, dog
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘No. 6./ De hond en het kind rusten van hun arbeid.’

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Jérusalem, Saint-Sépulcre, Détails des chapiteaux de la porte principale
Object type: photograph
Date: 1854 – 1854
Techniques: paper negative, salted paper print
Artist: auguste salzmann
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1824 – 1872
Subjects: architecture,capitals
Klein binnenlandsvaardersgilde van Amsterdam, gildepenning van Pieter Volkers van Wieringen
Object type: medal
Date: 1771 – 1771
Materials: brass
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam

Messing penning. Voorzijde: naar links varend schip; op achterplecht:vlag met wapenschild. Keerzijde: opschrift
De Dodendans
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1650
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: personifications of death; 'morte' (ripa), dance of death; death together with one or more human beings, knight
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: Meyer, Rudolph. Sterbenspiegel, das ist sonnenklare Vorstellung menschlicher Nichtigkeit durch alle Ständ und Geschlechter (...). Zürich: J.J. Bodmer, 1650.
Portret van Willem V, prins van Oranje en Nassau
Object type: print
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: leeuwarden
Artist: rienk jelgerhuis
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1729 – 1806
Subjects: william v (prince of orange)

Ook gebruikt als illustratie in: Bosch, Johannes van den. De heeren stadhouderen van Vriesland, zedert den jare acht-hondert. Leeuwarden: Abraham Ferwerda en G.Tresling, 1770.
Portret van een onbekende man
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1938
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: germany
Artist: ernst ludwig kirchner
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1880 – 1938
Subjects: anonymous historical person portrayed
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760, annotation: ‘Signatuur eruit gehaald bij het schoon maken v.d. prent 1951, later weer ingezet.’
Bird Cage and Potted Plum
Object type: print
Date: 1804 – 1804
Techniques: woodblock print, surimono
Location: japan
Artist: katsushika hokusai 葛飾 北斎
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Christus aan het kruis
Object type: print
Date: 1935 – 1935
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: lodewijk schelfhout
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1881 – 1943
Subjects: specific types of crucified christ (in non-narrative context)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Chessmen (32)
Object type: chessman
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: ivory
Subjects: chess,games

Eastern convention is followed in having a general instead of a queen, and an elephant instead of a bishop-with a rider for the "good" side, without for the 'bad" side. Russian convention has ships for rooks; here they too are differentiated, by being double-masted on the "good" side, having only one mast on the other. The white king, general, and pawns are dressed like Roman soldiers, the corresponding red pieces like Turks. The white king and general have European mid-eighteenth-century hairstyles, with long curls above the ears and long queues tied with a ribbon at the neck. This set is thus very characteristic of a group of Russian sets in which some Eastern conventions are seen alongside of European ones.
Preekstoel en doophek in de Hervormde Kerk van Ilpendam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: dutch reformed church
Subjects: parts of church interior, interior of church
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Ilpendam (N.H.)/ preekstoel en doophek/ N.H. Kerk/ Mei 1901’, annotation: ‘N.H. Kerk/ Preekstoel en doophek/ Ilpendam’
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: silk
Techniques: compound weave
Culture: japanese
Subjects: musical instruments,men,women
Tray in the Shape of a Flower
Object type: tray
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: copper, enamel
Techniques: gilding, painting
Culture: chinese
Wedjat Eye Amulet
Object type: amulet, wedjat eye
Date: 664 – 332
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Subjects: eyes
Kamer met zithoek en salontafel in landgoed De Wildbaan, Driebergen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1903 – 1907
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: henry pauw van wieldrecht
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1863 – 1912
Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 20r)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1608 – 1608
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: sigismundus latomus
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1599 – 1632
Subjects: flowers

Published by Sigismundus Latomus, Frankfurt a.M. Illustrated and hand-colored title page, 94 pages of designs for lace and embroidery.
Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment
Object type: fragment, mosaic bowl
Date: 34 – 33
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent purple, cobalt blue, and light turquoise blue, opaque white, and colorless. Outsplayed, rounded rim; convex curving side. Mosaic pattern formed from large polygonal sections of two or more canes; one in a purple ground with a circle of white rods around a central pattern of small squares in turquoise blue outlined in white, and the other in a blue ground with a circle of white rods around a central square in purple with white dots, and irregular patches in colorless with white rods; on exterior, two widely spaced, vertical ribs, with flattened tops. Polished interior; pitting of surface bubbles on interior; dulling and creamy iridescent weathering on exterior, rim, and jagged edges. Part of the rim and side of a deep, footed ribbed bowl with broad flaring rim.
De straatjongen, 1840-1841
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1841
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: henry brown
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1816 – 1870
Subjects: professional clothes, the poor, netherlands

De straatjongen. Staande jonge man. Genummerd: 10. Illustratie in het boek 'De Nederlanden: karakterschetsen, kleederdrachten, houding en voorkomen van verschillende standen', een boek met karakterschetsen, beroepen en klederdrachten van Nederlandse volkstypen uit 1841.
Portretmedaillon van een man
Object type: portretmedaillon
Date: 1530 – 1532
Materials: wood
Location: augsburg
Artist: friedrich hagenauer
Artist role: medailleur
Artist dates: 1499 – 1546

Friedrich Hagenauer (1490/1500-after 1546. Portrait medallion of a man. Palmwood and walnut. Germany, c. 1530-1540.
Mythological Pageant (recto); Illegible Inscriptions and Anatomical Studies of Head (verso)
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1528 – 1529
Materials: charcoal, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: italy
Artist: girolamo genga
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1467 – 1551
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, across top of mount, in graphite: "G. Romano"; on mount, in pen and black ink and graphite: illegible inscriptions and anatomical studies of head (keyed with letters; Fig. 21); inscribed recto on former mount (GCI):  "Andrea Mantegna"
Jérusalem, Porte de la citadelle
Object type: photograph
Date: 1854 – 1854
Techniques: paper negative, salted paper print
Artist: auguste salzmann
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1824 – 1872
Subjects: architecture,arches,gates
Partisan
Object type: partisan
Date: 1575 – 1575
Materials: steel, wood
Culture: french
Location: france
Album of Bit Designs
Object type: album of bit design
Date: 1674 – 1674
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: bohemian
Location: bohemia
Artist: rudolf franz ferdinand von talmberg
Artist role: designer
Artist nationality: bohemian
Artist dates: 1620 – 1727
Subjects: ornament
Portret van de historicus en dominee François Valentijn
Object type: print
Date: 1708 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: middelburg
Subjects: dordrecht, the hague
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Montreal
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1865
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: john thomson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Artist dates: 1837 – 1921
Gezicht op de Hervormde Kerk te Nieuwaal
Object type: photograph
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: nieuwaal
Subjects: church (exterior), village street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘F/ Nieuw Waal (G) / bij Zalt Bommel / N.H. Kerk / GEM. GAMEREN’
Netsuke
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: lacquer
Culture: japanese
Subjects: men
Hexagonal ewer
Object type: ewer
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: enamel, porcelain
Techniques: overglaze, painting, polychrome
Culture: chinese
Rough Waves
Object type: screen
Date: 1704 – 1709
Materials: gold leaf, ink, panel, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: ogata kōrin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1658 – 1716
Subjects: waves

Many artists and poets of the East and West alike have striven to capture the transitory and fleeting image of swelling waves. Kōrin’s rendition—one of Japan’s most striking representations of this amorphous, ungraspable form—has a strangely menacing feel, due no doubt to the long, tentacle-like fingers of foam, punctured here and there by openings. Outlined in ink using the ancient Chinese technique of drawing with two brushes held together in one hand, the clawlike waves are peculiarly reminiscent of dragons’ talons. The immediate inspiration for the screen may have been images by Sesson Shūkei (ca. 1504–ca. 1589), whose extant works include a number of dynamic and mysterious renderings of waves. The screen bears a seal reading “Dōsū,” the name Kōrin adopted in 1704. Recent research suggests that the screen was executed between 1704 and 1709, when Kōrin was residing in Edo (now Tokyo).