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Buddhist Vestment (Kesa) with Figural Squares
Object type: robe, priest's
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: lampas, patterning, weave
Culture: japanese

The principal Buddhist vestment, termed kashaya in Sanskrit and kesa in Japanese, can be viewed many different ways: as a garment distinguishing clergy from laypersons; as a textile assembled in accordance with the rules of a school; as a product of the pious donation of cloth; and even as a simplified diagram of the Buddhist world, or mandala. In Japan, the kesa standard for Esoteric Buddhist rituals consists of a bordered patchwork with seven columns (jō), the short and long pieces within them set in a framework of vertical and horizontal strips (yō). A square patch occurs in each corner, and, commonly, a pair of larger patches flanks the central column. Most kesa are rectangular, like the platform of a Buddhist altar, and the patches in the four corners, termed shiten, are said to correspond to the Guardians of the Four Directions (Shitennō). During the making of a kesa, the central column, often larger than the others, is formed first, and the other columns ripple out from the center. This primacy suggests the column's role as the buddha of the mandala, which is often underscored by the presence of the "attendant" squares (niten) that flank the central column. These squares are sometimes said to stand for the bodhisattvas Monju (Sanskrit: Manjushri) and Fugen (Sanskrit: Samantabhadra) or for the two Benevolent Kings (Ni-ō), fierce guardian figures who protect the Buddhist Law. Although it happens only rarely, sometimes the six patches contain woven Sanskrit seed syllables that allow for the identification of the deities. The squares may also feature figural representations of the attendant bodhisattvas and the Guardians of the Four Directions. This kesa contains figural representations of both the Guardians of the Four Directions and the two Benevolent Kings.
Landschap met een kasteel
Object type: print
Date: 1628 – 1676
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jean baptiste bonnecroy
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1618 – 1676
Subjects: cow, castle, herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., meadow, pasture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Een landschap met een kasteel en enkele huizen op de achtergrond. Een zandweg maakt een bocht langs een rivier. Op de weg twee wandelaars en een herder met twee koeien.
Silhouet-portretje van Maria Müller met opgestoken vlecht, naar rechts
Object type: drawing
Date: 1853 – 1853
Materials: paper
Techniques: brush
Artist: s. wiedmer
Artist role: draughtsman
Subjects: maria müller
Cylinder seal
Object type: cylinder seal
Date: 2350 – 2250
Materials: stone
Culture: akkadian
Location: mesopotamia
Subjects: animals
Perles et Parures, Les Joyaux
Object type: book
Date: 1850 – 1850
Techniques: etching, hand coloring, engraving
Location: france
Artist: v. corbay
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Subjects: women
Tile
Object type: tile
Date: 1580 – 1625
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Subjects: houses,trees
Storm
Object type: print
Date: 1831 – 1897
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, intaglio
Artist: martinus antonius kuytenbrouwer jr.
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1821 – 1897
Subjects: trees, pond, storm on land
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1485, inscription: ‘2e état avec les travary a la roulette’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Een storm jaagt door een stuk bos met een poel. In het midden is een boom omgewaaid en rechts slaan de golven van het meer tegen het land. Links lopen twee figuren over een bospad, hun kleding wappert in de wind.
Beaker
Object type: glass
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: enamel, glass
Techniques: gilding, painting
Location: bohemia
Riviergod Ligeris
Object type: print
Date: 1586 – 1586
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: philips galle
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1537 – 1612
Subjects: river personified, 'fiumi' (ripa)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De riviergod Ligeris (de Loire), gezeten op een stenen blok. In zijn hand een schelp. De prent maakt deel uit van een zeventiendelige serie over rivier- en zeegoden.
Oude man met stok op een straat
Object type: boekillustratie ontwerp
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: willem pothast
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1877 – 1916
Subjects: walking-stick, staff, walking (+ old male (human being)), drapery, draped garment, 'gewandgebung', street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, annotation: ‘pag. 92.’, :, signature: ‘W.P.’

Een oude man met een baard loopt met een stok over een natte straat. Hij heeft een lap stof om zijn arm en schouder gedrapeerd.
Dwarsdoorsnede van de Villa Spinola di San Pietro te Genua
Object type: print
Date: 1622 – 1622
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: hôtel, i.e. small palace in city - aa - civic architecture: inside, section ~ architectural design or model

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Blue bird on maple branch
Object type: print
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Portret van David Jorisz.
Object type: print
Date: 1701 – 1701
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: romeyn de hooghe
Artist role: draughtsman, goldsmith, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1645 – 1708
Subjects: bruges, david jorisz.

Portret van David Joris uit een serie van 28 portretten in het tweede deel van Historie der Kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 van Godfried Arnold (1701).
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 520 – 520
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Ono, Distant View of Mount Daisen in Hoki Province (Hoki, Ono, Daisen enbo), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyo-shu meisho zue)"
Object type: print
Date: 1853 – 1853
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Piazzetta e Colonne e Isola S. Giorgio
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1870
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: venice
Artist: paolo salviati
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc., column, pillar ~ architecture
Inscriptions: number: ‘1022.’
[Female Portrait, Standing, Looking Left]
Object type: photograph
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: franz antoine
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: austrian
Artist dates: 1815 – 1886
Subjects: portraits,women
Olielamp uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: oil lamp
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: lead
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet
Les fous amoureux
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1876
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: narcisse-virgile diaz de la peña
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1808 – 1876
Where all the Four Beauties are Present
Object type: ink tablet
Date: 1867 – 1933
Materials: ink
Culture: chinese
Artist: jian guzhai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Subjects: dragons

This ink tablet is from a sixty-four-tablet set (30.76.216–.279) commissioned by the Jiaqing emperor from the Studio for Appreciating the Antique (Jiangu Zhai) manufactory of the Wang Jinsheng family in Huizhou, Anhui Province. Each ink tablet commemorates a hall or pavilion in one of the imperial gardens. Each site’s name is written in gilt characters on one side; a view of the site is presented on the other. Such inks were purely decorative and not intended for use.
Illustration for a Book:  Reception of a Bishop Leading an Army at a City Gate
Object type: drawing
Date: 1696 – 1770
Materials: chalk
Artist: giovanni battista tiepolo
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1696 – 1770
Subjects: gates,army,horses,bishops
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, nebris draped over extended arm of maenad
Snelle terugkeer van Lodewijk XIV van Namen naar Versailles
Object type: satirical medal
Date: 1693 – 1693
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: leiden
Artist: jan smeltzing (i)
Artist role: modelleur
Artist dates: 1656 – 1693
Subjects: lodewijk xiv (koning van frankrijk)
Portret van Hussein, dey van Algiers
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1849
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: historical persons, head-gear: turban
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1740 – 1740
Materials: silk
Subjects: leaves
Plasma scaraboid seal
Object type: scaraboid
Date: 450 – 400
Culture: greek, ionian
Subjects: men,horses

Persian horseman spearing a Greek.
Twee kandelaren, een klok en een plantenstandaard
Object type: page
Date: 1857 – 1867
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: clock, candlestick
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 5 No 6 No 7 No 8’

Boven: twee kandelaren gedecoreerd met putti en een klok gedecoreerd met een vrouw door M. Lefèvre, onder: een plantenbak op een standaard gedecoreerd met een portret en fantasiewezens.
Musketkogels uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Meresteijn
Object type: musketkogel
Date: 1693 – 1702
Materials: lead
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: cape of good hope

Vierendertig loden musketkogels, deels met aankoekingen. Massieve bolvormige kogels. Shot, musket.
Medal in Memory of Lieutenant William Burrows
Object type: medal
Date: 1800 – 1830
Materials: bronze
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: moritz fürst
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: hungarian
Artist dates: 1782 – 1882
Subjects: cannons
Portret van Georg Schenck
Object type: print
Date: 1722 – 1733
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leipzig
Artist: martin bernigeroth
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1670 – 1733
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, historical persons, letter, envelope
Turkey-work chair
Object type: side chair
Date: 1680 – 1700
Materials: wood
Culture: american
Location: united states
Horn Player
Object type: figure
Date: 1550 – 1680
Materials: brass
Culture: edo period
Location: nigeria
Artist: ìgùn ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists
Artist role: artist
Subjects: men,musicians
Tetuan. Mosquee de la place des Babucheros. Maroc
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1879 – 1910
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: tétouan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: square, place, circus, etc.
Inscriptions: number: ‘264’, number: ‘167’
Scène in bordeel met badende man en vrouwen
Object type: print
Date: 1500 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: taking a bath, brothel, (story of) sardanapalus - love-affairs of person from classical history
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Bordeelscène met op voorgrond man in bad geflankeerd door twee vrouwen. Linksvoor twee figuren waarvan één met luit. Rechts een putto en daarachter zittend stel aan tafel. (Sardanpolus in het bad ?)
Portret van Christan Liebenthal
Object type: print
Date: 1751 – 1751
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, scholar, philosopher (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent waarschijnlijk uit: Küster, Georg Gottfried. Martin Friedrich Seidels Bilder-Sammlung in welcher hundert, gröstentheils in der Mark Brandenburg (…). Berlijn: Buchladen bey der Real-Schule, 1751.
Bracelet
Object type: bracelet
Date: 1981 – 1640
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Maria en het Christuskind aanbeden door Cesare Alessandro Scaglia
Object type: print
Date: 1633 – 1673
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: madonna: mary sitting or enthroned, the christ-child in her lap (or in front of her bosom) (mary sometimes represented half-length), mary together with mortals, who adore her, or implore her to help

Cesare Alessandro Scaglia knielt in aanbidding voor Maria en het Christuskind. Het Kind zegent hem. In de marge een zesregelig onderschrift, in drie kolommen, in het Latijn.
Tegeltableau van twaalf tegels
Object type: tile tableau
Date: 1740 – 1780
Materials: earthenware, glaze
Techniques: maiolica
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Tegeltableau van 12 tegels (4 x 3) met Christus aan het kruis. Op de achtergrond een landschap en rechts gebouwen.
Tableau d'un rêve fait par l'Habitant du Chateau du Diable Extravagant
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1830
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: brussels
Subjects: small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band, competition, art contest, brussels
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Spotprent op het muziekconcours gehouden te Brussel in juli 1830. Gezicht op de muziektent in de Parc Royale waar het concours plaats vindt. Om de tent wachten de andere muziekkorpsen op hun beurt om te spelen. Links op de achtergrond het gebouw van de Staten-Generaal, daarvoor de tent met de jury. Met legenda A-B en 1-13.
Ball gown
Object type: ball gown
Date: 1820 – 1820
Materials: silk
Culture: american

The puffed sleeves of this dress are an indication to the historicism in dress at the time. As a reinterpretation of 16th-century slashing, they make a statement about the Renaissance and the rebirth of artistic notions. The beautiful hem detail is also typical of the period spanning 1820. These details gave weight and shape to an otherwise unbroken line of fabric, which was so prevalent in the decades prior to it. The Empire silhouette is readily identified with its origins in the chiton of ancient Greco-Romans, which was a tubular garment draped from the shoulders and sometimes belted beneath the bust. Several re-interpretations have occurred throughout costume history but none have been as notable as the period bridging the rectangular panierred skirts of the 18th century and the conical hoop skirts of the 19th century. The neoclassic style was adopted in all forms of decoration after the French Revolution and was upheld during the Napoleonic Wars partly due to Napoleon Bonaparte's (1769-1821) alliance with Greco-Roman principles. In fashion, the style began as children's wear made from fine white cotton, but was adopted by women in the form of a tubular dress with skirts that were gathered under the bust with some fullness over a pad at the back. As the style progressed the skirts began to flatten at the front and solely gather from the bodice at the center back. The style persisted until the 1820s when the waist slowly lowered and the skirts became more bell shaped.
Porringer
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1755 – 1755
Materials: ceramic, porcelain, soft paste porcelain
Techniques: underglaze
Location: worcester
Patronen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1916 – 1945
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: reijer stolk
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1896 – 1945
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘how do you do - help your self - cigarette - have a drink/ [...] Kapella/ ground’

Blad 2 verso uit een schetsboek met 60 bladen.
Day, from the series The Times of the Day
Object type: print
Date: 1807 – 1807
Techniques: engraving
Artist: philipp otto runge
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1777 – 1810
Subjects: children,women
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1733
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers,trees
Portret van van Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1825
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: hamburg
Subjects: draughtsman, johann wolfgang von goethe, historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: check stamp: ‘IMC’

Tekst en facsimile signatuur in de ondermarge.
Portret van Wilhelmina van Zijll de Jong en een kind op de Avenue de Longchamps, Parijs
Object type: photograph
Date: 1911 – 1933
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the hague, wilhelmina van zijll de jong, historical persons not known by name - bb - woman, historical persons not known by name, paris
Li Tre Trattai
Object type: book
Date: 1639 – 1639
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Artist: mattia giegher
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: italian
Subjects: animals,birds,dogs,rabbits
Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna?) emerging from a horizontal ground line, a walking stick leans toward the right margin
Object type: print
Date: 1545 – 1563
Techniques: engraving
Artist: rené boyvin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1525 – 1598
Subjects: men,philosophers
Allegorie op de bruiloft van Lodewijk van Bourgondië en Maria Adelheid van Savoye
Object type: print
Date: 1697 – 1697
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: lodewijk van frankrijk (hertog van bourgondië), historical persons, (civil) marriage ceremonies, gods ~ classical mythology

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Rosewater bottle with flowering plats and a petal border
Object type: bottle
Date: 1650 – 1670
Materials: cobalt, glaze, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, turning, vitrification
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous

Rozenwaterfles van porselein met peervormig lichaan en smalle, iets uitlopende nek, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw. Op de wand planten met grote bladeren en een boom. Op de nek afhangende, puntige bladmotieven vanuit de rand. Rand is gebroken geweest. Voetring gechipt. Arita, blauw-wit.
The Little Marine - Souvenir of Medway
Object type: print
Date: 1879 – 1879
Techniques: aquatint, etching
Artist: félix-hilaire buhot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1847 – 1898
Portret van Karel II, koning van Spanje
Object type: print
Date: 1691 – 1707
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: engraving, pen
Location: frankfurt am main
Artist: erven matthäus merian (i)
Artist role: print maker, printer, publisher
Artist dates: 1650 – 1734
Subjects: karel ii (koning van spanje), historical persons, ruler, sovereign

Prent ook gebruikt in: Theatrum Europaeum (...). Frankfurt am Main: erven Matthäus Merian I, Johann Phillip Abelinus en Heinrich Oraeus, 1691, dl. 12. Ook in: Theatrum Europaeum (...). Frankfurt am Main: erven Matthäus Merian I, Johann Phillip Abelinus en Heinrich Oraeus, 1707, dl. 15.
Arashiyama manka
Object type: print
Date: 1833 – 1837
Materials: paper
Techniques: nishiki e
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Subjects: river, rowing-boat, canoe, etc.

Een vlot met twee mannen op de Hozu rivier in Arashiyama; op de oever wandelaars die de kersenbloesem bewonderen.
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: albert baertsoen
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1922
Subjects: painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, the hague
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Staande man met helm en opgerolde boekspijpen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1801 – 1892
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: johannes abraham mondt
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1859 – 1941
Ponte e Castel Sant'Agelo
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1893 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: rome
Subjects: castle, bridge
Part of an elaborate roof or canopy - see 26.3.354-2
Object type: relief, tomb of khety
Date: 2051 – 2000
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt

This group of relief fragments comes from the entrance passage of the tomb of Khety, the first recorded royal treasurer (“overseer of what is sealed”) of Mentuhotep II. Depicted here is part of a canopy under which Khety was shown seated, probably part of a magnificent carrying chair (see fig. 1) in which he would have been ferried around his estate. In funerary contexts, these scenes could represent the tomb owner’s visits to the site on which his mortuary monument was being constructed. On a more symbolic level, they could also represent the funeral itself, and thus magically ensure the proper performance of this essential ritual. See 26.3.354-2-related.
Détail de glace au Glacier supérieur de Grindelwald
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1860 – 1866
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: berner alpen
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: mountain climbing, mountaineering, glacier
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 3288.’
Messenheft uit het wrak van de Oost-Indiëvaarder Hollandia
Object type: knife handle
Date: 1700 – 1743
Materials: metal, wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: verenigde oostindische compagnie, hollandia (schip), annet

Knife, handle, cylindrical: tapering; id. NG 1980-27H512a.
Titelpagina voor: Henry Heath, The Caricaturist's Scrap Book, 1840
Object type: titelblad, titelpagina
Date: 1840 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: henry heath
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: caricatures (human types), print, e.g.: engraving, etching, lithograph
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 4779
Giuseppe Caraffa omgebracht tijdens een oproer in Napels, 1647
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1698 – 1698
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: naples, street-fights, riots, murderer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Bos, Lambert van den. Treur-toonneel der doorluchtige mannen, of Op- en ondergang der grooten, 3 delen. Amsterdam: Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1698, dl. III.
Sgabello gedecoreerd met voluten, rozetten en een cartouche in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: matte daylight collodion silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: chair
Inscriptions: number: ‘XLIV kat 157 105’

Zie voor het originele object BK-NM-11948.
Lamp
Object type: lamp
Date: 1101 – 1200
Materials: stonepaste
Techniques: glazing
Location: iran

The type of oil lamp represented by this example excavated from Nishapur in eastern Iran may have evolved as a response to issues of portability. The tall stem and large handle allow it to be carried with ease. The saucer-shaped base not only helps to stabilize the piece but would also catch any oil that spilled from the sides of the lamp. Finally, the tightly pinched spout served to hold the wick steady. This type of portable lamp one of several forms found at Nishapur, speaking to a number of creative solutions to the problem of lighting employed at the site.
Saint Catherine's Hill, Guildford
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: graphite, paper
Techniques: brush, wash
Location: england
Artist: thomas girtin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1775 – 1802
Korinthisch kapiteel
Object type: print
Date: 1640 – 1640
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: orders, order-books ~ architecture, corinthian order ~ architecture

Prent uit: Vignola, Giacomo Barozzi da. Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (...). Amsterdam: Johannes Willemszoon en Cornelis Blaeu, 1640, p. 57.
Ceremonial knife with sheath
Object type: machete
Date: 1750 – 1800
Materials: bronze, ivory, gemstone, steel
Techniques: gilding
Location: sri lanka
Artist: Anonymous

Richly worked knives are some of the best-known collectors’ pieces from Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka). The finest of these were produced by members of the Four Workshops, a guild to which only the leading craftsmen belonged; these craftsmen worked almost exclusively for the court. Such knives formed part of the costumes of the aristocracy and were virtually never used.
Holy Family with Saints
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: italy
Artist: after francesco solimena