deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Venus and Minerva (Furnishing Fabric)
Object type: textile
Date: 1805 – 1805
Materials: cotton
Techniques: engraving, weave, printing
Location: jouy-en-josas
Artist: jean baptiste huet
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1745 – 1811
Inscriptions: Chef de pièce: MANUFACTURE. DE OBERKAMPF. A JOUY./PRES VERSAILLES. BON TEINT (with sprigs) B29 D304
Portret van Grietje Vermeulen op latere leeftijd
Object type: photograph
Date: 1910 – 1940
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: unknown
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Grietje’

Grietje Vermeulen in lange winterjas met hoed en handschoenen.
Schone Kunsten en de Lithografie
Object type: print
Date: 1819 – 1819
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph, symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ art; 'arte' (ripa) (+ the work of art and its production)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

De Genius van de Schone Kunsten moedigt de Personificatie van de Lithografie aan in haar werk.
Portret van een meisje, staand op een stoel
Object type: photograph
Date: 1893 – 1894
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: elberfeld
Artist: carl freund
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, toddler (female), chair
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Carl Freund/ ELBERFELD/ Hofauerstrasse 80/ gegenüber/ Hôtel Weidenhof./ Die Platte wird zum Nachbestellen aufbewahrt.’
The artist drawing from the model
Object type: print
Date: 1639 – 1639
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Subjects: artist (in general) working from live model
Noh Robe (Karaori)
Object type: noh robe
Date: 1767 – 1833
Materials: gold leaf, paper, silk
Techniques: patterning, weave
Culture: japanese

Once Noh theater was embraced by the military elite, costumes turned more elaborate. Karaori (literally, “Chinese weave”) in exquisite patterns became one of the standard outer robes for female roles. The robe is embellished with chrysanthemums by a stream, an auspicious symbol of longevity. The flowers are depicted in vivid colors, while the river is expressed in gold.
Buying Potted Plants, from the series "A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fuzoku Azuma no nishiki)"
Object type: print
Date: 1783 – 1784
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: torii kiyonaga
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1752 – 1815
Plant Studies
Object type: photograph
Date: 1928 – 1928
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: berlin
Subjects: plants (in general)
Inscriptions: number: ‘73’

facher Vergrößerung. Afkomstig uit losbladige uitgave.
Bruin de beer dagvaardt Reinaert de vos
Object type: print
Date: 1665 – 1675
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: allaert van everdingen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1621 – 1675
Subjects: fable of reynard the fox
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Bruun de beer zit met opengesperde muil voor het hol van Reinaert de vos. Onder de boomwortels, tussen de klimop bladeren is de kop van de vos zichtbaar. Op de achterkant van de prent een Duits tekstfragment uit het verhaal van Reinaert de vos.
Female statuette
Object type: statuette
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: wood
Techniques: painting
Artist: leonhard kern
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1588 – 1662
Subjects: female nudes

Kern was a talented German carver whose individualistic classicizing style displays signs of his study in Italy. Court sculptor to the elector of Brandenburg, he specialized in small-scale works for collectors' cabinets, often producing variants in ivory, wood, and stone. The heavy features, calm stance, and compact, full body of this figure are typical of his naturalistic, monumental style, as is the simplicity of surface, markedly different from the more agitated and detailed approach of his contemporaries. The rubbed areas of remaining paint suggest an intention to imitate bronze.
Kussenblad met het gemeentewapen van De Rijp en jaartal 1632
Object type: kussenblad
Date: 1632 – 1632
Materials: silk, wool
Techniques: tapestry
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: date: ‘AN NO // 1632’, inscription: ‘RYP’

Kussenblad van een magistratenkussen van tapijtweefsel met het gemeentewapen van de Rijp en als schildhouders twee leeuwen. Boven en onder het wapen de inscriptie "ANNO", "RIJP" en het jaartal 1632.
Twee Engelse boksers te midden van het publiek
Object type: print
Date: 1821 – 1823
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: boxing (sport)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Prent gebruikt in: Le Miroir des spectacles, des lettres, des mœurs et des arts, 1821-1823.
Diverse navires dont on se sert dans les Provinces Unies / Icones variarum navium Hollandicarum quarum usus maximè in aquis interioribus regionis
Object type: print
Date: 1717 – 1779
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Een wijdschip of lichter op het water. Rechtsonder genummerd: 12. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Handel, Nijverheid en Verkeer, Scheepsvaart.
Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique (...) Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne
Object type: print
Date: 1726 – 1726
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leiden
Subjects: fortress, maps of cities

Blad met vier plattegronden van de verdedigingswerken van Wesel, Burick, Rees en Schenckenschans. Plaat nr. 209 in deel IX van het prentwerk: Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique ... Comme aussi les Cartes des Côtes de France et d'Espagne uit 1726, dit eerste deel met 238 met de hand genummerde platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen in het kader van de Spaanse Successieoorlog 1701-1713. Voor het merendeel zijn deze platen gekopieerd naar de anonieme Franse platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen: in Les forces de l'Europe en in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, beide oorspronkelijk uitgegeven door Nicolas de Fer te Parijs (1693-1697) in het kader van de Negenjarige Oorlog. Titels en opschriften in het Frans.
Lappet
Object type: costume and accessory
Date: 1780 – 1789
Materials: lace, linen
Techniques: lace
Location: belgium
Vijzelstraat te Amsterdam, voor de verbreding
Object type: cabinet photograph
Date: 1900 – 1915
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: street
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Oude Huizen in de/ Vijzelstraat, ziende van/ de Reguliersdwarsstraat/ naar het Singel./ Allen afgebroken ter/ verbreeding van de Vijzel-/ straat’, collector's mark: ‘Vosmaer’
Portret van een onbekende man in marine-uniform
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1865
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: bruges
Artist: edouard-alexis daveluy
Artist role: print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1812 – 1894
Subjects: adult man, anonymous historical person portrayed, (military) uniforms, bruges
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Photographie Artistique/ Edouard Daveluy/ Successeur de/ Victor Davelut/ Quai Vert/ Bruges./ Les clichés sont conservés.’, inscription: ‘Ed. Daveluy Bruges.’
Famille-Rose Vase
Object type: vessel
Materials: enamel, porcelain
Techniques: overglaze, painting
Location: china
Black Horseman
Object type: print
Date: 1651 – 1651
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Artist: stefano della bella
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1610 – 1664
Les Tortures de la Mode, ca. 1848, No. 19 : Cheveux à la Titus (...)
Object type: caricature
Date: 1848 – 1848
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: cham
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1818 – 1879
Subjects: styles of hairdress, fashion plates, clothes, costume (+ women's clothes), head bent forward; bowing, clothes, costume (+ men's clothes), care of the hair - aa - ~ women
Inscriptions: caption: ‘Les Hommes porterent des Oreilles se Chien, mais ils n'en firent pas plus fidèles pour cela. Plusieurs prirent le nom d'otuzor, ainsique le prouve la pièce de Témire et Sozor. / Les Cheveux à l'Anglaise. Gräce à celle Mode, le Cheveu n'etait jamais sec, surtout en sorlant de table.’, caption: ‘Cheveux à la Titus pour les Dames. On disaIt: Est-ce à Monsieur ou à Madame que j'ai l'honneur de parler!’, title: ‘Les Tortures de la Mode’

Karikatuur van diverse kapsels. Boven: man in een deuropening buigt voor een vrouw met een kapsel 'à la Titus'. Volgens het onderschrift weet hij door het korte haar niet of hij haar met mevrouw of meneer moet aanspreken. Linksonder: mannen dragen het haar als 'Oreilles se Chien' (hondenoren?). Rechtsonder: vrouw waarvan het lange haar op haar bord hangt: 'cheveux à l'anglaise'.
Brief aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: letter
Date: 1912 – 1912
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: printing
Location: london
Subjects: the hague, draughtsman, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Rekenpenning uit Neurenberg met Pygmalion
Object type: jeton
Date: 1575 – 1625
Materials: brass
Techniques: striking
Location: nuremberg
Artist: hans krauwinckel

Verzilverde messing penning, op de voorzijde Pygmalion die een vrouw beeldhouwt, met bovenaan omschrift, op de keerzijde Mars en Venus met omschrift.
Couple Embracing, from "The Small Wedding Dancers"
Object type: print
Date: 1538 – 1538
Techniques: engraving
Artist: heinrich aldegrever
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1502 – 1561
Subjects: couples,men,women,dancing
Cameo with Sacrifice of a Bull
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: ceramic, jasper, stoneware
Location: burslem
Artist: wedgwood manufactory
Artist nationality: england
Artist dates: 1759 –
Serie medaillons met vooraanstaande figuren uit het begin van de negentiende eeuw
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: relief engraving
Location: france
Subjects: politician, ornament ~ medallion, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Container on stand
Object type: container on stand
Date: 1860 – 1870
Materials: bone china, porcelain
Artist: minton(s)
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1793 – 2001

The history of the Derby porcelain manufactory can generally be divided into two periods. The old Derby porcelain was produced from 1750 to 1848, and was foremost distinguished by the ownership of William Duesbury I and II. When the original factory closed in 1848, a number of former workers established a separate smaller factory at King Street, Derby, using Crown Derby’s original molds and patterns and oftentimes incorporating the factory marks on its wares. Around 1876, a separate company established a factory at Osmaston Road under the name Derby Crown Porcelain Company (and eventually bought the King Street factory in 1935), although the firm did not being producing commercial pieces until two years later. In 1890, the factory was granted the privilege of using the title "Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company." Although the new Crown Derby continued to produce the firm’s old eighteenth-century Japan patterns, it became known for making vessels lavishly decorated with raised and chased gold work and Persian-style decoration.
Offeraltaar
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1925 – 1925
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Location: indonesia
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: altar ~ hinduism, buddhism, jainism, sacrifice ~ non-christian religions
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven

Pagina 68 uit een schetsboek met 74 bladen.
Drie ossekoppen
Object type: print
Date: 1820 – 1833
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: ox (+ head of an animal)

Deze prent maakte mogelijk deel uit van de serie: 'Origineele Beesten Studien op Steen getekend na Potter, Van de Velde, Berghem, en andere Oude Hollandsche Meesters' door J. A. Daiwaille.
Bird-shaped vessel
Object type: vessel
Date: 1100 – 1470
Materials: silver
Culture: chimú
Location: peru
Artist: chimú artist(s)
Artist role: artist
Subjects: birds
Terracotta fragment of a column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)?
Object type: krater fragment
Date: 475 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Miss O'Neil in Juliet
Object type: print
Materials: ink
Techniques: printing, engraving
Artist: charles turner
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1774 – 1857
Subjects: shakespeare,women,actresses
Blitilde, femme de Childeric II
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1842
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
Grandpalais, Paris
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1900 – 1910
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: matte daylight collodion silver print
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: world fair, world exhibition, palace
Body with garment, pleating
Object type: body, pleating
Date: 1353 – 1336
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt
Mountain-Shaped Incense Burner
Object type: religious ritual object
Materials: brick, earthenware, glaze
Location: china

Often referred to as “boshan lu,” or hill censer, this incense burner features a conical cover shaped like miniaturized peaks, evoking the mountainous isles where the immortals reside. When incense is burnt in the step cup, fragrant smoke emanates from the openwork on the cover, animating the sacred mountains and transporting the beholder into a realm of transcendence. Covered with a green lead glaze, this pottery incense burner mimics similar objects that are commonly made in bronze. The clay material suggests that the object might have been specifically made for a funerary context.
De kleine brug
Object type: print
Date: 1650 – 1699
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Subjects: cottage, bridge
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Volgens Slive (2001) zijn de wolken in de tweede staat mogelijk toegevoegd vóór het einde van de 17e eeuw, zie p. 605.
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
Object type: neck amphora fragment
Date: 534 – 468
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Head and upper torso of a draped, bearded male to right, holding a skyphos in his hand; head and neck of a draped, bearded 'Anakreontic' male to left, with a turban
Landschap met een wandelaar
Object type: print
Date: 1857 – 1857
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: utrecht
Artist: hermanus jan hendrik van rijkelijkhuysen
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1813 – 1883
Subjects: trees, windmill, 'en route', traveller under way, farm or solitary house in landscape, dog
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een vlak landschap met op de voorgrond een wandelaar die mogelijk de weg vraagt. Rechts een boerenhoeve aan een stroompje en op de achtergrond een windmolen.
Theuerdarnk on a Boar Hunt, from [Theuerdank] Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen vnd hochberümbten helds vnd Ritters herr Tewrdannckhs
Object type: print
Date: 1517 – 1517
Materials: parchment
Techniques: woodcut
Location: germany
Artist: hans burgkmair
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1473 – 1531
Subjects: buildings,men,hunting,boars,horses
Brief aan Frans Buffa en Zonen
Object type: letter
Date: 1873 – 1873
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: hilversum
Artist: hendrik albert van trigt
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1829 – 1899
Subjects: publisher, art trade, art shop, drawing, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Vrouw wordt door twee bewakers naar het Werkhuis gebracht
Object type: drawing
Date: 1806 – 1806
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: christiaan andriessen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1775 – 1846
Subjects: prisoner; in fetters, workhouse, penal camp, penitentiary, chain gang
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘10 maij 't wandeld zo plaisierig in 't voorjaar, als de boomen zo lief gaan worden .... Exept na 't werkhuis’, signature: ‘J Andriessen’

Dagboekblad uit het getekende dagboek dat Christiaan Andriessen bijhield van 1805 tot en met 1808.
Portret van Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
Object type: print
Date: 1686 – 1686
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: delft, physicist, anthony van leeuwenhoek, writing tools, historical persons, compasses, magnifying glass, biology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), science and technology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), globe
Inscriptions: date

Met zesregelig lofdicht in het Nederlands in twee kolommen. Van Leeuwenhoek zit aan een tafel waarop een globe staat en meetinstrumenten liggen. In zijn hand houdt hij zijn microscoop.
Hispani et Hispanae in Vestitu Cultus, from Fashions of Different Nations
Object type: print
Techniques: engraving
Artist: pieter de jode (i)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1570 – 1634
Subjects: dresses,men,women
Untitled (Freemason)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1855 – 1855
Techniques: daguerreotype, photography
Culture: boston
Location: united states
Subjects: lundberg collection, portraits: male subject, portraits, portrait, photography, men, male, freemason
Kastelen in Brabant
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: castle, rural housing, e.g. country-house, villa, cottage, landscape with tower or castle, armorial bearing, heraldry, antwerp
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp

Bovenste plaat heeft rechtsboven een wapenschild. Middelste plaat bovenaan twee wapenschilden. Iedere prent is rechtsboven genummerd: C.No. 47, C.No. 48, C.No. 49. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, De Woning. Kastelen en buitenplaatsen. Over de Grenzen.
Wieg van gespleten wilgenteen
Object type: wieg
Date: 1690 – 1710
Materials: plant material, wood
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous

Wieg van gespleten wilgenteen, fijnscheenwerk, rustend op twee schenkels met verbindingslat van notenhout, aan de wieg verbonden met vier schroeven en ringen ('revetjes') van binnen uit. Ovale wieg met vaste kap, scheenwerk versierd met ribbels; vier handvatten, aan één is een schommelkoord geknoopt van gevlochten gele en blauwe zijde, eindigend in een geel en blauw zijden kwast.
Colius striatus ? (Speckled mousebird)
Object type: album leaf
Materials: chalk, ink, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: robert jacob gordon
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1743 – 1795
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Sogenaamde muisvogel. het wijfje. / [...] / le Collion a dos blanc. [...]’

Speckled mousebird (Eng.). Franse benaming geschreven door Levaillant.
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (recto); Back of a Woman Wearing a Long Dress with a Ruff (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1689 – 1767
Materials: graphite, ink, lead
Techniques: brush, drawing, pen, wash
Artist: gaspare diziani
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1689 – 1767
Subjects: weapons,women,cupid,horses,saints
Adoration of the Magi
Object type: drawing
Date: 1501 – 1525
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen
Culture: flemish
Artist: flemish
Artist role: artist
Artist dates: 1550 – 1600
Subjects: adoration of the magi

This drawing of elegant figures worshipping the Virgin and Child set amidst the ruins of antiquity was once attributed to Lucas van Leyden (1489/94-1533), hence the L added later to the architectural base at the lower right.
Monfredo, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) 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: dance,women

Trade cards from the series "National Dances" (N225), issued in 1889 to promote Kinney Brothers Cigarettes for Kinney Tobacco Company. There were two card variations issued within the series. Type 1 cards display a white border around the edges whereas Type 2 have no border.
Gezicht op de haven van Torquay met op de achtergrond Walden (Waldon) Hill
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1870
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: torquay
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: harbour (+ view ~ vehicle, ship, etc.)

Onderdeel van Album met foto's van bezienswaardigheden en landschappen in Engeland en van kunst.
Publiek voor paviljoen (San Francisco)
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1915
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: san francisco
Subjects: san francisco
Twaalf landschappen naar Daubigny
Object type: print
Date: 1870 – 1870
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: berlin
Subjects: cow, landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1090

Het volgnummer in de serie is niet vermeld.
Portret van Giovan Luigi Vitelli
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1640 – 1699
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: low countries
Subjects: commander-in-chief, general, marshal, historical persons

Portret voor het eerst uitgegeven in: Strada, Famiano. De Bello Belgico. Antwerpen: Jan Cnobbaert, 1640, dl. 1. Huidige staat met vergelijkbare omlijsting komt voor in: Strada, Famiano. De thien eerste boecken der Neder-landtsche oorloghe. Antwerpen: weduwe en erfgenamen Jan Cnobbaert, 1645.
Gezichten bij Haarlem
Object type: print
Date: 1612 – 1652
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: claes jansz. visscher (ii)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1586 – 1652
Subjects: bleaching of yarn, bleaching (laundering), fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.), farm (building)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, number: ‘8’ Lugt

Gezicht op de bleekvelden bij de Haarlemmerhout. Achter een lage omheing wordt het linnen op grasvelden te bleken gelegd. Links op de achtergrond een groep boerderijen. Deze prent maakt deel uit van de serie 'Gezichten bij Haarlem'.
Art - Goût - Beauté, Feuillets de l' élégance féminine, Février 1926, No. 66, 6e Année, p. 7
Object type: magazine
Date: 1926 – 1926
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: drapery, draped garment, 'gewandgebung' (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, dress, gown (+ women's clothes)

Advertentie voor de zomercollectie van Joseph Paquin. Pagina uit het modetijdschrift Art-Goût-Beauté (1920-1933).
Pair of Arm Defenses
Object type: pair of arm defense
Materials: steel
Culture: italian
Location: italy

This is part of a large find of medieval armor discovered in 1840 in the ruins of the fortress of Chalcis, on the Greek island of Euboea (then a Venetian colony called Negroponte). The fortress had been captured and destroyed by the Turks in 1470. Now divided largely between the Ethnological Museum, Athens, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chalcis hoard contains many rare and unusual elements of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century armor. Of particular importance are the variety of headpieces and the many fragments of brigandines (armor for the torso constructed of small plates riveted to layers of fabric), some of which retain portions of their original velvet covering. The Chalcis armor provides a unique picture of the armament used in the Aegean, one of the easternmost military outposts of the Venetian empire.