deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Brief aan Jan Veth
Object type: letter
Date: 1917 – 1917
Materials: paper, pencil
Techniques: writing
Location: the hague
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923
Subjects: jan veth, amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, isaac israels, anonymous historical person portrayed, diseases
Inscriptions: watermark, collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Band
Object type: band
Date: 1501 – 1600
Techniques: lace
Subjects: birds
Collar
Object type: collar
Date: 1840 – 1860
Materials: cotton
Culture: american
Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right: First Version
Object type: print
Date: 1625 – 1630
Materials: paint, linen, paper
Techniques: brush, drypoint, etching, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam
Artist: hercules segers
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1589 – 1640
Subjects: walking, hiking (recreation), rocks

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.
Bijbelsche geschiedenissen uit het Nieuwe Testament
Object type: print
Date: 1866 – 1871
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, the story of the three wise men (kings or magi) (matthew 2:1-12), new testament, the marriage-feast at cana (john 2:1-11)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 4 voorstellingen van plaatsen en verhalen uit het Nieuwe Testament. Bethlehem, de drie wijzen zien een ster, Jeruzalem en de bruiloft te Kana. Onder elke afbeelding de bijbehorende Bijbeltekst. Genummerd linksboven: No. 2.
The Garden of Love
Object type: print
Date: 1480 – 1490
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: master w. a. h.
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1480 – 1490
Subjects: gardens

This elaborate engraving depicts nearly every aspect of courtly love and dates to the late medieval era, when the mating ritual was an accepted part of life among the nobility. The feast table in the walled courtyard boasts musical accompaniment, suggesting music truly is the food of love. Women drive the amorous games equally with men; a woman summarily dismisses a fools- cap-wearing suitor at the gate, while another daringly rides sidesaddle behind her lover on a twisting road. Men and women enjoy skinny-dipping in the moat at right, as if it were a fountain of youth.
Landschap met berkenboom
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1898 – 1903
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Subjects: landscapes, trees: birch
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Frau Dr. Framheim, Hamburg’, monogram: ‘BX’
Abraham tentatur à Domino
Object type: print
Date: 1530 – 1533
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Subjects: when abraham has his hand raised to kill isaac, an angel restrains abraham's hand

Prent afkomstig uit: Biblicae historiae. Frankfurt am Main: Egenloph, 1539.
Fotoreproductie van een tekening van een man en drie kinderen door Adriaen van Ostade
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1855 – 1860
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: edmond fierlants
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1819 – 1869
Subjects: adult man, child
Inscriptions: name: ‘A. v. Ostade.’

Foto op derde ongenummerde pagina na pagina 112.
Pin
Object type: pin
Date: 800 – 601
Materials: bronze
Culture: iranian
Location: iran, probably from luristan
Snuffbox
Object type: snuffbox
Date: 1762 – 1763
Materials: gold
Subjects: human figures

In eighteenth-century Europe, Paris led the production of high-quality luxury goods. Parisian goldsmiths made a wide range of small, personal articles such as snuffboxes; étuis to hold sealing wax, tweezers, or utensils for sewing; souvenirs, which contained thin ivory tablets for note taking; and shuttles for knotting lace. Gold snuffboxes and boxes decorated with portrait miniatures were prized and frequently given as royal gifts, often to ambassadors or members of the court in lieu of cash payments for their services. Coveted and admired, these boxes were produced from a variety of materials. The best were skillfully made of gold and embellished with diamonds, enameled decoration, lacquer, and other luxurious materials. By the middle of the century, the taking of snuff had become an entrenched social ritual, and the snuffbox, too, had become an important social prop. Snuffboxes were considered highly fashionable accessories, with some merchants advertising new boxes with each change of season. The popularity of snuffboxes extended to all levels of society, and for those who could not afford gold, boxes were produced in less expensive materials such as silver, tortoiseshell, porcelain, or domestically produced lacquer.
Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui, 1922, Pl. 6 : La Chasseresse
Object type: fashion print
Date: 1922 – 1922
Materials: paper
Techniques: pochoir
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: hoofed animals: deer, coat (+ women's clothes), fashion plates, head-gear: hat (+ women's clothes), forest, wood, hunter - cc - female hunter, huntress, rodents: squirrel, rodents: rabbit, dog
Inscriptions: title: ‘MODES ET MANIÈRES D'AUJOURD'HUI’, caption: ‘LA CHASSERESSE’

Een jagerin staat met het hoofd gebogen tegen een boom aan. Zij draagt een cape met grote opstaande kraag op een gestreepte top en geruite rok. Om haar heen verschillende dieren, waaronder een hert, eekhoorn, twee konijnen, vogel en hond.
De prent maakt deel uit van een serie van 12 houtsneden van Fernand Siméon, met teksten van Paul Valery, voor het zevende deel (10e année 1922) van Modes et Manières d'Aujourd'hui. Elke uitgave had een oplage van slechts 300 stuks en was exclusief gewijd aan één kunstenaar die 12 prenten ontwierp rond een bepaald thema. In deze serie staat het 'leven van de modieuze vrouw in de maatschappij' centraal.
Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a lease
Object type: cuneiform tablet
Date: 700 – 301
Materials: clay
Culture: achaemenid or babylonian
Location: mesopotamia
Schetsblad met twee studies van Napoleon, een ten voeten uit
Object type: drawing
Date: 1848 – 1927
Materials: pencil, paper
Artist: august allebé
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1927
Subjects: napoleon i (emperor of the french), historical persons
Doorway from Abbey of Notre-Dame at Nevers
Object type: doorway
Date: 1201 – 1300
Materials: limestone
Culture: french
Location: france

This portal was originally located on the north side of the 13th-century abbey church at Nevers. Whether it originally had a tympanum and lintel is uncertain.
Sutra Cover
Object type: sutra cover
Date: 1667 – 1733
Materials: silk
Culture: chinese
Subjects: flowers
Esemplario di Lauori..., page 10 (recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Techniques: woodcut
Location: venice
Artist: giovanni andrea vavassore
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1530 – 1573
Subjects: ornament

Originally published by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore, Italian, active 16th century, Venice, designed by Florio Vavassore (Giovanni's brother), Italian, active 16th century. Reissued by Macmillan & Co., British, London and New York. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 vertical columns. Left is wider and is decorated with several 5-petaled flowers. Right is narrower and is illustrated with line of diamonds containing even smaller diamonds.
Amida, the Buddha of Limitless Light
Object type: statue
Date: 1250 – 1250
Materials: gold leaf, lacquer, wood
Culture: japanese
Subjects: lotuses,buddhism,buddha

Amida Nyorai—referred to in Sanskrit as Amitabha Tathagata—the Buddha of Limitless Light, sits upon a lotus pedestal with his hands forming the mudra of meditation. Amida presides over his own paradise, the Western Pure Land, to which he welcomes any being who calls upon his name. His benevolent gaze, directed toward the viewer below, is symbolic of this boundless compassion. The Pure Land sects of Buddhism, with their emphasis on salvation through faith, stirred the imagination of both courtiers and commoners alike, and temples dedicated to Amida were constructed throughout Japan.
Kindermoord te Betlehem
Object type: print
Date: 1641 – 1641
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Subjects: monument, statue, temple, shrine ~ roman religion, the massacre of the innocents
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Ontwerp naar een wandtapijt in de Galleria degli Arazzi in de Vaticaanse Musea.
Januari 1907
Object type: magazine
Date: 1907 – 1907
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: japan
Artist: mitsutani kunishiro
Artist role: designer
Artist dates: 1874 – 1936
Inscriptions: date

Nummer 1 van de derde jaargang (januari 1907) van het tijdschrift Fujin gaho: kaft met bloeiende witte waterbloemen, titel in rood tegen zilverkleurige achtergrond; binnenin, uitvouwbare frontispies waarop landschap.
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, bit of hair, right eye, nose, mouth, chin, neck and shoulder of youth to right; to the right of the youth's head, an unidentified object; part of an inscription, EN
Alcoves à la Francoise
Object type: print
Date: 1678 – 1678
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: interior of the house
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Alkoof met aan de linkerkant Ionische pilasters tegen de muur, afgesloten door een balustrade. De rechterkant is een variant met een deur met dessus-de-porte met figuur in medaillon.
Ketting van een koperen hanglamp
Object type: hanging lamp
Date: 1916 – 1916
Materials: copper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: theo nieuwenhuis
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1951

Elektrische hanglamp van rood koper bestaande uit een aan vier kettingen gehangen kap die is opengewerkt met ranken en vogelmotieven. Aan de binnenzijde is een bol van matglas. De kettingen bestaan uit drie stangen die op twee plekken onderbroken zijn door schakels. De kap is aan de onderzijde afgezet met een volant van matglazen kralen en afgeschermd met een naturelkleurige gebatikte doek.
De Markt te Roosendaal
Object type: print
Date: 1831 – 1831
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: netherlands
Artist: joannes willem vos
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1806 – 1853
Subjects: shelter ~ military service, guard duty, keeping sentry
Inscriptions: caption: ‘De Markt te Roosendaal’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De vrijwillige schutterij exerceert op de Markt voor het Raadhuis te Roosendaal. Onderdeel van een serie van vijf voorstellingen van de wachthuizen van de Nederlandse schutterij in Noord-Brabant in 1830-1831.
Het paard van Julius Caesar
Object type: drawing
Date: 1893 – 1895
Materials: ink, paper, pencil
Techniques: pen
Location: netherlands
Artist: johan huizinga
Artist dates: 1872 – 1945
Subjects: (story of) c. julius caesar, horse
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Julius Caesar met zijn paard dat handen als voorpoten heeft en schoenen draagt op de achterpoten, ca. 60 v. Chr. Onderdeel van de map met 18 tekeningen gereproduceerd in Johan Huizinga's 'Keur van gedenkwaardige tafereelen uit de vaderlandsche historiën' uit 1950.
Studies van een steur
Object type: drawing
Date: 1876 – 1924
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: gerrit willem dijsselhof
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1866 – 1924
Subjects: bony fishes: sturgeon
Inscriptions: number: ‘277’, number: ‘12’
Dish
Object type: dish
Date: 1737 – 1738
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Subjects: birds,buildings,coat of arms
Marble head of a Ptolemaic queen
Object type: head of a ptolemaic queen
Date: 270 – 250
Materials: marble
Culture: greek
Subjects: queens,heads,women

Acquired in Egypt by George Baldwin, British Consul-General 1785–96 This monumental head gives an impression of sovereign calm and power, even though the veil that once covered the top and back of the head is now missing. Although the features are cast in a thoroughly classical style typical of the late fourth century B.C., the face is stamped with enough individuality to identify it as a portrait. In all probability, it represents a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, that succession of Macedonian Greeks who ruled Egypt from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. until the annexation of Egypt by Rome and the suicide of Cleopatra VII in 30 B.C. Most recently, the head has been identified as Arsinoe II, who ruled together with her brother, Ptolemy II, from 278 B.C. until her death in 270 B.C. Not only was the queen part of a dynastic ruler cult during her life, she was also transformed into an independent deity by her brother after her death. She was worshiped as an Egyptian goddess in association with Isis and also separately as a Greek goddess, with her own sanctuaries and festivals. This strongly idealized head, which resembles classical images of Hera and Demeter, was probably associated with the latter cult.
Portret van actrice Loudi Nijhoff
Object type: photograph
Date: 1930 – 1945
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jacob merkelbach
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1877 – 1942
Subjects: portrait of actor, actress
Gemeentelijke exploitatie van de gasfabriek?
Object type: cartoon
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: johan braakensiek
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1858 – 1940
Subjects: gasworks, personification of a city, town-patron(ess), balloon flight (sport), balloon (aviation), political caricatures and satires, amsterdam

Burgemeester Vening Meinesz, nodigt de Amsterdamse Stedemaagd uit om aan boord te gaan van een heteluchtballon gevuld met Amsterdamsch Gas.
Teaspoon
Object type: teaspoon
Date: 1836 – 1837
Materials: silver
Artist: w. k. (?)
Artist role: maker
Kip en kuikens voor een kippenhuis
Object type: drawing
Date: 1890 – 1930
Materials: cardboard, ink, pencil
Techniques: pen
Artist: totie
Artist role: draughtsman
Subjects: fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.), chicken house
Inscriptions: :, collector's mark: Lugt 2228a, signature: ‘TOTIE.’
Javaansche danseres
Object type: print
Date: 1921 – 1921
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Artist: johannes frederik engelbert ten klooster
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1873 – 1940
Subjects: woman dancing alone
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Edward C. "Mouse" Glenn, Left Field, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1889 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes
Interieur van een woonkamer
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1882 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: japan
Subjects: interior ~ representation of a building, living-room, parlour, sitting-room
Portret van Hugo de Groot
Object type: print
Date: 1658 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: hugo de groot, historical persons, portrait of a writer

Andere staat met tekst op verso uit: Groot, Hugo de. Annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis. Amsterdam: Johannes Blauw, [1658-1670].
Carafe
Object type: carafe
Date: 1601 – 1700
Materials: glass
Portrait of Henri-Louis Le Kain
Object type: print
Date: 1788 – 1788
Techniques: engraving
Artist: augustin de saint-aubin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1736 – 1807
Subjects: men,portraits
Card Number 29, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-1), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the first subset, N145-1. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Gezicht op de rivier de Rummel bij Constantine, Algerije
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1888 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: jules gervais-courtellemont
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1863 – 1931
Subjects: river
Notitie
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1809 – 1880
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen
Location: rotterdam
Artist: johannes tavenraat
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1809 – 1881
Inscriptions: date and inscription: ‘In de achterkamer - Gedempte Karnemelks/ haven N18 schrijf ik dat ik heden/ 39 jaren getrouwd ben & terwijl ik mij/ o zoo ziek gevoel! 16 Sept. 1880/ sic transit etc-’

Blad 88 recto uit een schetsboek met 98 bladen.
Tynemouth Castle, Northumberland
Object type: drawing ornament architecture
Date: 1728 – 1728
Materials: ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: samuel buck
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1696 – 1779
Subjects: architecture,castles,ruins,flags

In November 1726 Samuel Buck announced a plan to systematically record ruins throughout England. Distressed that castles, religious foundations, and other antique remains were crumbling away, he proposed to "rescue the mangled remains of these aged & venerable edifices from the inexorable jaws of time." Working with his brother Nathaniel, the artist would eventually produce over four hundred prints recording ruins. The present precisely drawn sheet relates to a print published in "Buck's Antiquities; Or Venerable Remains of Above Four Hundred Castles, Monasteries, Palaces, &c. &c. in England and Wales: With Near One Hundred Views of Cities and Chief Towns" (1726–42). Drawn on the spot, the image offers evidence for the emergence of an antiquarian sensibility in Britain, part of an historical impulse to accurately research and record the past rather than a romantic response to decay.
Model of a Made Mast
Object type: demonstration model
Date: 1780 – 1840
Materials: brass, paint, wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: label: ‘145’ former inventory label

Deze mast was waarschijnlijk bestemd voor een spriettuig.
Spray of Canterbury Bells
Object type: drawing
Materials: chalk
Artist: antoine berjon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1754 – 1843
Subjects: flowers
Junction of Severn and Wye, part VI, plate 28 from "Liber Studiorum"
Object type: print
Techniques: aquatint, etching, mezzotint
Artist: joseph mallord william turner
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1775 – 1851
Subjects: landscapes

Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. This is one of the few instances where Turner also developed the tone, using aquatint and mezzotint to describe a low sun illuminating the confluence of two major rivers. Marking the border of England and Wales, the Wye flows past the ancient town of Chepstow to join the Severn, with their estuary emptying into the Bristol Channel. The letters "EP" in the upper margin likely stand for Elevated Pastoral, and were applied by Turner to landscapes within the set that echo the Arcadian sensibility of Claude.
Dansende boeren voor een herberg
Object type: print
Date: 1651 – 1655
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: haarlem
Artist: adriaen van ostade
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1610 – 1685
Subjects: one pair dancing; man and woman dancing as a couple, public festivities
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

In een dorpsstraat wordt feest gevierd waarbij het er vrolijk aan toegaat. Een groot aantal dorpsbewoners kijkt geanimeerd toe hoe een man en vrouw dansen op de muziek van een muzikant.
Two labourers
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1662 – 1662
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush
Location: sri lanka
Artist: esaias boursse
Artist dates: 1631 – 1672
Subjects: 41d232(...) skirt (lungi), head-gear (with name), working class, labourers, asiatic races and peoples: indians, sri lanka

Buiten bij een schuin naar achter lopende muur van klipsteen, misschien de hoek van een vestingmuur, staan twee jonge mannen. De linker man draagt een dubbelgeslagen heupkleed (veshti, lungi) tot op de knieën; een omslagdoek (chadar) hangt over de rechterschouder en is ook om het middel geslagen en in de taille vastgestopt. De man rechts leunt met zijn rug tegen de schuine muur. Zijn linkerbeen heeft hij opgetrokken met de voet tegen de muur en de knie naar voren. Hij draagt een heupkleed (veshti, lungi) tot op de knie, en om de linkerschouder een doek (chadar). Beide mannen zijn afkomstig van Zuid-India en in Colombo te werk gesteld bij de wederopbouw. Blad 55 uit een schetsboek met 117 bladen.
Ontbind, en spoed, u van de Wal Zo wind, en vloed, u baten zal
Object type: print
Date: 1689 – 1689
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Huygen, Pieter. De beginselen van Gods koninkryk in den mensch uitgedrukt in zinnebeelden. Amsterdam: wed. Arentsz. Pieter (II), 1689, p. 92.
The Horoscope
Object type: print
Date: 1889 – 1889
Materials: chine, ivory, paper
Techniques: printing, lithography
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Subjects: women
The Seine Before Honfleur
Object type: print
Date: 1865 – 1865
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, roulette
Location: france
Artist: karl daubigny
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1846 – 1886
Pueblo of Zuni
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1876 – 1881
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: boston
Artist: john karl hillers
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1843 – 1925
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta'
Inscriptions: number: ‘Fig. 23.’
Kast, kist en twee kannen uit de collectie van Daniël Franken Dzn.
Object type: photograph
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornamental cupboard
Inscriptions: stamp, stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, De Woning, Binnenhuizen, Meubelen.
Cup with gold borders on a red ground
Object type: cup
Date: 1800 – 1824
Materials: glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, forming, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Kop van porselein op spreidende voet en met een hoog, gekruld oor, bedekt op het glazuur met rood en goud. De buitenwand is bedekt met rood en de voet, rand, oor en een deel van de binnenwand met goud. Op de buitenrand een bloemrank in één van de gouden banden. Empire.
Boomstam en bladeren
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1819 – 1870
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: trees (+ leaf), trees (+ stem, trunk)

Blad 8 verso uit een schetsboek met 39 bladen.
Cauldron
Object type: cauldron
Date: 1434 – 1466
Materials: copper alloy
Techniques: incising
Location: caucasus

This cauldron was made from a copper alloy sourced in the Caucasus Mountains, a region that has been mined for its metals for hundreds of years. While its basic shape is derived from traditional forms, the cauldron is unusual for its large size, the arabesques on its rim, and the lions that attach four rings to its body.
Tiered box with a praying official
Object type: tiered box
Date: 1367 – 1400
Materials: lacquer
Techniques: carving, gilding
Culture: chinese

An official stands before an incense burner on the lid of this box. He may be praying to the heavens on a moonlit night, a traditional Chinese practice. The use of gold underneath the figural decoration is uncommon and suggests that the box was particularly valuable.