deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Jonge torenvalken in een nest
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1952
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: richard tepe
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1864 – 1952
Subjects: predatory birds: falcon
Inscriptions: signature: ‘R. Tepe Apeldoorn’, inscription: ‘Horst en halfwassen/ Jongen van den Torenvalk’
Crescent or Gorget
Object type: crescent or gorget
Date: 1901 – 1933
Materials: gold
Culture: irish
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij, voorstellende Aeneas en Ascanius vluchten met een boot uit Troje
Object type: photograph
Date: 1850 – 1858
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the fleet of aeneas sets out
Een fregat
Object type: drawing
Date: 1834 – 1893
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: willem anthonie van deventer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1893
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, navy (+ sailing-ships)
Necklace
Object type: 9 13 shell bead between 2 carnelian bead
Date: 1802 – 1640
Materials: gemstone, shell
Lodewijk Ernst, hertog van Brunswijk legt de eed af als veldmaarschalk, 1759
Object type: print
Date: 1789 – 1789
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: the hague, william v (prince of orange), ludwig ernst von braunschweig-wolfenbüttel, new ruler taking the oath
Inscriptions: date

Gebruikt in: Loosjes, P.A. Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen, der Vereenigde Nederlanden (...). Drie-en-twintigste deel. Beginnende met den jaare 1759 en eindigende met den jaare 1765, bevattende het tydperk der minderjaarigheid des erfstadhouders Willem den V. Ten onmiddelyken vervolge van Wagenaar's Vaderlandsche historie. Amsterdam: J. Allart, 1797.
Landschap met een brug over een vaart
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: the hague
Artist: jan heppener
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1826 – 1898
Subjects: landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (+ landscape with figures, staffage), landscape with bridge, viaduct or aqueduct (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Subjects: men,bulls,trees
Bronze trowel or cutter
Object type: trowel or cutter
Date: 2000 – 1001
Materials: bronze
Culture: minoan

The form resembles what Sir Arthur Evans calls the trowel sign on Middle Minoan seals, an example of which can be seen in Study Center Case 04 in this gallery.
Seated woman
Object type: statuette of a woman
Date: 2465 – 2150
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt
Subjects: women
Vouwwaaier met gebatikt blad, waarop een voorstelling met 15 figuren, op een montuur van parelmoer ingelegd met goud
Object type: vouwwaaier
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: cotton, textile, gold, mother of pearl
Techniques: cutting, inlay
Location: netherlands

Vouwwaaier met gebatikt voorblad in blauwbruine kleuren, waarop een symmetrische voorstelling met 15 figuren. De centrale figuur met drie hoofden, heeft aan weerskanten staande figuren die een buigende beweging maken. Boven de figuren zijn bloemen en vier halve manen. Het achterblad is van een groene crêpe. Het montuur telt 18 benen van parelmoer met geel en wit bladgoud ingelegde bloemen en c-voluten, de achterkant is onbewerkt. De sluitpin is van koper.
Border
Object type: border
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: linen, silk
Subjects: birds
Mountainous Landscape with Steep Cliffs
Object type: drawing
Date: 1603 – 1613
Materials: chalk, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Artist: roelant savery
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1576 – 1639
Subjects: (high) hill

Presumably made during Savery’s trip in the Tyrol, this drawing was once owned by Rembrandt. In the description of his estate, mention is made of a large book containing drawings that Savery made in the Tyrol. After Rembrandt went bankrupt, this album
became the property of Lambert Doomer, a gifted amateur draughtsman. Doomer copied several of the drawings in the book, including this one.
Portrait of an unknown mendicant with a bow from the Akali community of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Object type: photograph
Date: 1859 – 1869
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: lahore
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: archer's weapons: bow, human races; peoples; nationalities
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘AKALEE./ SIKH DEVOTEE./ LAHORE.’, number: ‘(225)’
Landscape of the Four Seasons
Object type: screen
Date: 1567 – 1633
Materials: gold, ink, panel, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: unkoku tōgan
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1547 – 1618
Subjects: houses,hills,landscapes,trees

The four seasons of the year progress across the surface of this pair of screens, beginning at the right, with spring, and concluding with winter at the far left. The imaginary landscape, with rocky land masses, towering mountains, pavilions, and human activity, recalls aspects of the Chinese theme “Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers,” particularly with its depiction of geese descending to a sandbar in the distance. Tōgan, founder of the Unkoku school, was one of the most important ink painters of the Momoyama period. This panoramic landscape composition reflects the influence of the earlier, Muromachi-period ink master, Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), whose studio, the Unkoku-an, was bestowed upon Tōgan in the 1590s and from which he adopted his family name. The sharp outlines and architectonic treatment of land masses visible in this work appear in other screens by Tōgan, some of which also feature gilded backgrounds.
Vignet
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1899 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: line block
Location: england
Subjects: political caricatures and satires

Vignet met Punch voor een Griekse tempel, bij het voorwoord bij vol. 117 van het Engelse satirische tijdschrift Punch, 1899.
Portret van een onbekende vrouw
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: batavia
Artist: isidore kinsbergen
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1821 – 1905
Subjects: anonymous historical person portrayed - bb - woman
Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1830 – 1870
Techniques: glassblowing
Culture: american
Location: united states
Gezicht op een dorp aan een rivier in Frankrijk
Object type: photograph
Date: 1883 – 1886
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, river (+ landscape with figures, staffage), france

Onderdeel van Album van een Franse amateurfotograaf met opnames van familie, militairen, industrie, landschappen en bezienswaardigheden in Frankrijk.
Sixteenth-century-style pendant
Object type: pendant
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: enamel, gold
Subjects: mermaids
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, unidentified subject; Exterior, part of ground line
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 400 – 351
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, rock?; Exterior, legs of a draped male to right
Carolus Linneaus
Object type: cameo medallion
Date: 1779 – 1779
Artist: josiah wedgwood
Artist role: factory
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1730 – 1795
Subjects: men,profiles
Deep Bowl
Object type: bowl, deep
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: glaze, pottery
Culture: japanese
Concentration camp coat, worn by Isabel Wachenheimer
Object type: coat
Date: 1938 – 1945
Materials: plastic, wool
Location: germany
Subjects: tweede wereldoorlog

Isabel Wachenheimer (1928-2010) wore this numbered prison coat at Lenzing-Pettighofen concentration camp in Austria. She had been transferred to this labour camp from Auschwitz death camp along with 500 other Jewish women in October 1944. This was just after Isabel’s parents, Eugen and Else Wachenheimer, had been murdered in Auschwitz. After the war, Isabel sewed her surname on the coat. A label under the collar states: Wachenheimer.
South Wind, Clear Sky (Gaifū kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Object type: woodblock print
Date: 1830 – 1832
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: mountains

Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" is justly celebrated as one of the world's greatest series of images of various conditions and vantage points of a particular place, in this case, the mountain synonymous with Japan. Juxtaposed here with the clear brilliant calm of "South Wind, Clear Sky" (the "Red Fuji"), the Storm Below Fuji reveals the expressive range and power of Hokusai's vision. Forky across the inky base, a bolt of white lightning dramatizes the sudden change from a cloud filled summer sky to the murky violence that obscures all below Fuji's magnificent cone. This series created such a sensation that the publisher Eijudo expanded the original conception to eventually include forty-six prints in this series. Another version pulled from the same block includes a line of trees, dimly visible in the rain below the mountain, but this print more effectively implies the awesome moment of the summer storm by eliminating this explicit depiction of rain. This series is noted for its particular blue color, called "Berlin indigo" (bero-ai), a pigment newly introduced by Dutch merchants.
Turfschepen bij de Keizersbrug in Amsterdam
Object type: print
Date: 1911 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: urban housing, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, bridge in city across river, canal, etc.
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘3e staat’
London and Neighbourhood
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1860 – 1880
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: london
Subjects: river, lower house, parliament, chamber
Inscriptions: number: ‘No. 96.’
The actors Seki Sanjuro II, One Kikugoro III, and Ichikawa Danjuro VII on a Kabuki stage
Object type: print
Date: 1822 – 1822
Techniques: woodblock print, surimono
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa toyokuni i 初代 歌川 豊国
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1769 – 1825
Heilige Augustinus en het kind aan zee
Object type: drawing
Date: 1660 – 1661
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: zwolle
Artist: gesina ter borch
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1633 – 1690
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘Gesina’

Heilige Augustinus en het kind aan zee; op verso een cirkel.
Sjabloon met vierkanten met draken
Object type: katagami
Date: 1800 – 1909
Materials: paper, silk
Techniques: cutting
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament derived from animal forms, dragon

Japanse sjabloon (katagami) met een patroon van afwisselende vierkanten met draakmotief en ornament, tussen de blokken slingerende lijnen. Op het gebruikte papier zijn Japanse tekst en stempels zichtbaar.
As the new Actaeon, I surprised Diana, not in her bath but with a dealer in the bathroom, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"
Object type: print
Date: 1843 – 1843
Techniques: engraving
Artist: j. j. grandville
Artist role: illustrator
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1803 – 1847
Subjects: men,women
Ls. Js. Mgr. de Bonald
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1861
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
Tortoise Suspended By String
Object type: drawing
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: ink, paper
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsushika hokusai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1760 – 1849
Subjects: animals
Portret van Carel Vosmaer
Object type: print
Date: 1837 – 1880
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: the hague
Artist: jan weissenbruch
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1822 – 1880
Subjects: draughtsman, carel vosmaer, historical persons, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Knoopen tellen
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1911 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Artist: johan braakensiek
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1858 – 1940
Subjects: the hague, haarlem, mayor, antonie röell, personification of a city, town-patron(ess), mayor, burgomaster, literature ~ arts, 'architectura', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ architecture; 'architettura' (ripa), political caricatures and satires, royal palace of amsterdam

De Letterkunde nodigt de Amsterdamse burgemeester Antonie Röell uit het Paleis op de Dam te bezoeken. Architectuur en de Amsterdamse stedemaagd zien toe.
Verschillende schetsen over het schippersleven
Object type: print
Date: 1829 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: fashion, clothing, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, ducks (domestic waterbirds)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Anatomische studie van de buitenkant van de baarmoeder van een zwangere vrouw
Object type: print
Date: 1685 – 1685
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: uterus with foetus, pregnant woman, pregnancy
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Boekillustratie voor Bidloo, Godefridus. Anatomia humani corporis centum & quinque tabulis, per art. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis, de monstrata, veterum recentiorumque inventis explicata plurimisque, hactenus non detectis, illustrata. Amsterdam: Weduwe Joannes van Someren, Hendrick Boom en erven Dirk Boom, 1685.
De heilige familie
Object type: drawing
Date: 1583 – 1650
Materials: paper
Location: low countries
Artist: hendrick hondius (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1573 – 1650
Subjects: holy family, and derived representations, pilgrim(s)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Getekende kopie naar een prent. Heilige familie gekleed als pelgrims.
Penning met portret van Johan van der Does, heer van Noordwijk, bevelhebber te Leiden tijdens het beleg, 1574
Object type: print
Date: 1722 – 1784
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: simon fokke
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1712 – 1784
Subjects: medal (considered as a piece of sculpture, regardless of its specific function), leiden

Penning met portret van Johan van der Does, heer van Noordwijk, bevelhebber te Leiden tijdens het beleg, 1574. Bij zijn overlijden in 1604. Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: zwaard en boek liggend op een tafel onder een eiken- en een olijftak binnen omschrift. Voor- en keerzijde onder elkaar hangend aan lint.
Head of statue
Object type: head, male statue
Date: 1981 – 1950
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt
Nicolas de Neuville, marquis de Villeroy
Object type: print
Date: 1605 – 1650
Techniques: etching
Artist: jean morin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1605 – 1650
Subjects: men,portraits
Footed Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1830 – 1870
Materials: glass
Techniques: pressed
Culture: american
Location: united states
Dance Paddle (Rapa)
Object type: dance paddle
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: wood
Culture: rapa nui
Location: chile
Bad Münster a. Stein. Hutten- u. Sickingen-Denkmal
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1906 – 1906
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, writing
Location: bad münster am stein
Subjects: monument, statue
Inscriptions: date
Achterplaats van een boerenwoning
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: hendrik valkenburg
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1826 – 1896
Subjects: agricultural implements: pitchfork, open door, boots, cottage

Gezicht op de open deur van de woning. Naast de deur hangt een paar laarzen en staan manden, emmers en hooivorken. Blad 51 recto uit een schetsboek met 77 bladen.
Javaanse gamelanorkest, 1596
Object type: print
Date: 1597 – 1598
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: gouda, small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band, landscapes in tropical and sub-tropical regions, exploration, expedition, voyage of discovery

Gebruikt als illustratie eerst in: Willem Lodewijcksz, D'eerste boeck. Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avontueren die de Hollandtsche schepen bejeghent zijn, Cornelis Claes, Amsterdam 1598. In deze opgewerkte staat gebruikt in: De Eerste Schipvaerd der Hollandsche Natie naer Oost-Indien, waer inne verhaelt wordt al wat haer sonderlings onder wegen bejegent is ... ghetrocken uyt verscheyden Iournalen ofte dagh-registers daer van ghemaeckt, zeer vermaeckelijck ende nut om lesen. Opgenomen in: I. Commelin, Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, J. Janssonius, Amsterdam 1646. Genummerd: 19.
Saint-Gilles ontzet door de protestanten uit Nîmes
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1562 – 1562
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: raising the siege with outside assistance, relief, militant proselytizing: religious war, crusade, etc., the roman catholic church vs. protestantism; (reformation and counter reformation)

Prent gebruikt in: Aitsinger, Michael. De Leone Belgico (...). Keulen: s.n., 1588.
Flounce
Object type: flounce
Date: 1667 – 1733
Materials: lace
Techniques: lace
St. Anthoniesluys
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, line block
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: sluice, weir, lift-lock, canal lock
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641b

Prent uit: Zondagsblad van Het Nieuws van den Dag (1902), 2 februari 1902. Mogelijk uit de serie: Oud-Amsterdam 100 Stadsgezichten.
Sudarium displayed by two Angels
Object type: print
Date: 1513 – 1513
Techniques: engraving
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Subjects: faces,angels
Vest
Object type: vest
Date: 1780 – 1799
Materials: wool
Culture: american or european
Portrait of a Lady
Object type: painting, miniature
Date: 1810 – 1884
Materials: ivory, watercolor
Culture: american
Artist: moses b. russell
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1810 – 1884
Subjects: books,portraits,women
Cloth
Object type: heupdoek
Date: 1940 – 1940
Materials: cotton
Techniques: batik
Location: sumatra
Artist: Anonymous

The elaborate decoration of this cloth was made using the batik method. The pattern is first drawn on the cloth with melted wax, after which the fabric is dyed. When the wax is subsequently boiled out, the uncoloured pattern remains on the cloth. The processis repeated for each colour. The central panel of this cloth is decorated with flowers, plants and birds.
ROMA - Gall. di S. Luca - Virginia Lebrun
Object type: photograph
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman
Inscriptions: number: ‘198’, inscription: ‘Edizione inalterabile’, number: ‘934’

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van een reis door Zuid-Europa en het Midden-Oosten.
Three people from the Moormi community of Nepal, in the middle a woman carrying wood on her back
Object type: page
Date: 1858 – 1868
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: nepal
Artist: benjamin simpson
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1831 – 1923
Subjects: human races; peoples; nationalities
Inscriptions: number: ‘(76)’, inscription: ‘MOORMI GROUP./ TIBETANS./ NIPAL.’

De Moormi-gemeenschap is ook bekend als Tamang.
Glass square bottle
Object type: bottle, square
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Small square one-handled bottle Translucent pale yellow green; handle in same color. Plain rim with bevelled lip to flaring mouth; cylindrical neck expanding downward; pushed-in, horizontal shoulder with rounded corners; four flat sides, tapering downward; slightly concave bottom with slight ribbing in parallel lines; traces of large circular pontil mark; handle applied as a broad pad along outer edge of sholuder, drawn up and outward as a narrow strap, then turned in horizontally and trailed on to top of neck and outer edge of rim with loop above rim. Broken with half of rim and part of neck missing (with weathered edges); crack running around two sides of body; many bubbles; some pitting, brilliant iridescence, and patches of thick, creamy weathering.
Youth
Object type: statuette of a votary, male
Date: 400 – 301
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Subjects: men
Fragment
Object type: fragment
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: cotton
Subjects: flowers,leaves
Study for a Tailpiece
Object type: drawing
Date: 1774 – 1774
Materials: chalk
Artist: charles dominique joseph eisen
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1720 – 1778
Subjects: garlands,men,leaves
Kop van een geit
Object type: print
Date: 1797 – 1797
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: johann friedrich morgenstern
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1777 – 1844
Subjects: goat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Vrouw met capuchon
Object type: print
Date: 1793 – 1793
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: jan chalon
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1738 – 1795
Subjects: head-gear: hood, morphology of human expression (+ adult female (human being))
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 924

Een jonge vrouw. Buste naar links. Ze draagt een capuchon over haar hoofd.
Ex libris van Richard Schulz
Object type: bookplate
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing block
Location: germany
Subjects: sitting figure, youth, adolescent, historical costume, book, heart
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Portret van Maria Malibran
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1836
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: j.j.
Subjects: historical persons, portrait of opera-singer
Petit Courrier des Dames, 1828, No. 566 : Capote de paille de riz (...)
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1828 – 1828
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: ear-rings (+ women's clothes), head-gear (capote) (+ women's clothes), clothing for the upper part of the body (pelerine) (+ women's clothes), neck-gear ~ clothing (cravat) (+ women's clothes), coat (housecoat) (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, shoes, sandals (+ women's clothes), gloves, mittens, etc. (+ women's clothes), belt, girdle, waistband (+ women's clothes)
Inscriptions: address: ‘Boulevard des Italiens No.2 près le passage de l'Opèra.’, title: ‘Petit Courrier des Dames.’, caption: ‘Capote de paille de riz et de gros de Naples, Cravate de gros de Naples, Peignoir de Jaconas plissé et pelerine à double rangs, Des magasins de la providence Rue de la Paix No. 28.’, title: ‘Modes de Paris.’

Capote van 'paille de riz' en 'gros de Naples'. Geknoopte halsdoek of cravate van 'gros de Naples'. 'Peignoir' van geplooide 'jaconas' en een pelerine afgezet met twee gerimpelde stroken. Verdere accessoires: oorbel in het rechteroor, handschoenen, schoenen met gekruiste banden. Prent uit het modetijdschrift Petit Courrier des Dames (1821-1868).
Pochette
Object type: pochette
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: ivory, wood
Culture: french
Location: france

Dancing was an expected aristocratic accomplishment. Instruction was given at home by a visiting dance master, who played a small fiddle to provide music for the lessons. The compact, slender shape of these instruments made them easy to transport and gave them the name pochette, which suggests that they were carried in one's coat pocket. Description: Narrow, tapering case, the back formed of five strips of wood, inlaid with black and white lines. C sound-holes. Tail-piece and finger-board of ebony, inlaid with light lines. Head terminating in a scroll, with four ivory pegs.