deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Ribbed saucer-dish with an incised decoration
Object type: dish
Date: 1300 – 1500
Materials: glaze, stoneware
Techniques: engraving, firing, forming, turning, vitrification
Location: sawankhalok
Artist: Anonymous

Schaal van steengoed met een geribde wand, gedeeltelijk bedekt met een groen glazuur. Het onderste deel is ongeglazuurd. Op de voorzijde ingegrifte cirkels en een ingegrifte band met een golvende lijn. Celadon.
Castle Geyser, Yellowstone National Park
Object type: page
Date: 1889 – 1902
Materials: paper, photographic process
Location: yellowstone
Artist: william henry jackson
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1843 – 1942
Subjects: steam, hot spring, geyser, trees: pine
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘53313/ COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY/ DETROIT PHOTOGRAPHIC CO.’

Prent op eenentwintigste ongenummerde pagina.
Reproductie van La Vigne door Gustave Doré
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1874 – 1879
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Subjects: vine, sculpture
Inscriptions: name: ‘G. Doré/ (No 3)’
La Fortune et le jeune enfant
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1758 – 1758
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: johann heinrich meil (der ältere)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1730 – 1820
Subjects: fables of lafontaine : use 85(...), fables of lafontaine (fortuna en het kleine kind) : use 85(...), child, luck, fortune, lot; 'fato', 'fortuna', 'fortuna aurea', 'fortuna buona', 'fortuna pacifica overo clemente', 'sorte' (ripa)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Fontaine, J. de la. Fables choisies, mises en vers. Dl. 2. Dresden & Leipzig: George Conrad Walther, 1758.
Whirlpool rapids and bridge, Niagara
Object type: page
Date: 1890 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: niagara falls
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: rapids, river, suspension bridge
Scènes uit het eerste boek van Ovidius' Metamorphosen
Object type: print
Date: 1659 – 1659
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: nicolaes cornelisz. witsen
Artist role: mayor, print maker
Artist dates: 1641 – 1717
Subjects: deucalion's flood; jupiter sends a great flood to destroy mankind; deucalion and pyrrha afloat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2165

Naakte mensen vluchten voor het stijgende water van de zondvloed die door Jupiter is gestuurd. Onder de voorstelling een vierregelige toelichting in het Latijn.
Teapot
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: cobalt, stoneware
Techniques: salt glaze
Location: staffordshire
Tea Bowl with "Hare's fur" Glaze
Object type: vessel
Materials: fur, glaze, stoneware
Techniques: molding
Location: china
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1919 – 1919
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: satigny
Artist: alphonse stengelin
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1852 – 1938
Subjects: voorburg, renée hélène laure zilcken, the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken, architecture, switzerland
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Marble head of a youth
Object type: head of a youth
Date: 400 – 301
Materials: marble
Culture: greek
Subjects: heads,men
Nieuwmarkt. Amsterdam
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1892 – 1905
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: market, amsterdam
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Pellen
Object type: napkin
Date: 1800 – 1900
Materials: linen
Techniques: damask, weave
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Servet van linnen pellendamast met randen rondom en in een hoek gemerkt met in rode kruissteek: PK 12.
Reproductie naar een foto, schilderij, tekening of prent
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1915
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: netherlands
Cuffs
Object type: cuff
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: silk
Culture: spanish
Rust op de vlucht naar Egypte
Object type: print
Date: 1622 – 1648
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Artist: simone cantarini
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1612 – 1648
Subjects: rest on the flight into egypt
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

De Heilige Familie rust onder een boom tijdens de vlucht naar Egypte. Jozef geeft een kleine vrucht aan het Christuskind dat bij Maria op schoot ligt. Rechtsboven twee putti.
Portret van een gezin met grootvader en kind
Object type: photograph
Date: 1853 – 1863
Materials: celluloid, glass, linen, paper
Techniques: pannotype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult man (+ two persons), adult woman, family life, infant, baby ~ the ages of man, anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait
Arlequin's Lotto-Spel
Object type: print
Date: 1818 – 1845
Materials: cardboard, paper, watercolor
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: amsterdam
Artist: n. de vries
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: board-games of chance, types in 'commedia dell'arte': harlequin
Inscriptions: collector's mark, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Bordspel in de vorm van een beeldvullende harlekijn in een groen pak staande met gespreide benen en een netje over zijn gezicht. Over zijn lichaam en tussen zijn benen vierkante vakjes genummerd 1 tot en met 32. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Spel en Vermaak; gezelschapsspel, ganzenbord en dergelijke.
[George Henry Boughton]
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1860 – 1869
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: oliver françois xavier sarony
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: canadian
Artist dates: 1820 – 1879
Subjects: men,portraits
Leven van de maagd Maria
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: the assumption of mary ('assumptio corporis'): she is borne into heaven by angels (+ holy trinity)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Maria wordt op de maansikkel meegevoerd naar de hemel. Christus pakt haar hand vast. Boven hem de Heilige Geest als duif en God de Vader. Ze zijn omringd door engelen op de wolken. In de marge een zesregelig onderschrift, in twee kolommen, in het Latijn.
Kop van een vrouw met opgestoken haar
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1751 – 1751
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: lorenzo baldissera tiepolo
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1736 – 1776
Subjects: head (human) - aa - female human figure

Bladzijde 51 uit een schetsboek met 158 bladzijden.
Gezicht op een bevroren rivier
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1893 – 1898
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: hamburg
Subjects: river, ice ~ state of water
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 451
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Exterior, unidentified subject; glaze worn
Portret van Gomana Girolama Monti
Object type: print
Date: 1764 – 1764
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, female dancer, portrait of dancer
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641

Portret van Gomana Girolama Monti, later Nieri. Danste als eerste danseres bij de Amsterdamse Schouwburg. Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Tooneel, Portretten van toneelspelers.
Red Dragonfly (Akatonbo); Locust (Inago), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)
Object type: woodblock print
Date: 1788 – 1788
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: kitagawa utamaro
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1754 – 1806
Subjects: insects,dragonflies,flowers,plants

Ehon mushi erami (Picture Book of Crawling Creatures) is illustrated with fifteen designs of insects and other garden creatures by Utamaro. Published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō , the poems were selected and introduced by a preface written by the poet and scholar Yadoya no Meshimori (Rokujuen; 1753–1830), who later became head of the influential Go-gawa poetry group. Several of the top kyōka poets of the day were invited to contribute.
[Chatham Square, New York]
Object type: photograph
Date: 1853 – 1855
Techniques: daguerreotype
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: cities,streets,new york city

This chaotic street scene shows Chatham Street, now Park Row, from below its intersection with Pearl Street, northeast to Chatham Square. Unlike the period's printed views, which were generally designed for clarity and filled with drafting table anecdote, this photograph shows the city as an inelegant confusion of traffic, commercial signs, and pedestrians. It captures the spirit of the street, of "downtown," where the busy, unmannerly commerce in furniture and feathers, window shades, tea, and even daguerreotypes gave rise to New York's prominence as the "Great Emporium."
Portret van Petrus Goetthem
Object type: print
Date: 1629 – 1629
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: petrus goetthem
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Portret van Petrus Goetthem, kapitein van de schutterij van Amsterdam, op 52-jarige leeftijd.
Ioannes Iovianus Pontanus
Object type: print
Date: 1597 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: jean jacques boissard
Artist dates: 1528 – 1598
Subjects: cerreto di spoleto, schrijver, humanist, giovanni pontano
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van de Italiaanse humanist Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, in ovaal met randschrift. Pontano heeft een lauwerkrans op zijn hoofd. Onder het portret een Latijns vers.
Gezicht op een gebouw van de papierfabriek van Godin in Hoei
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1901 – 1906
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: hoei
Subjects: factory-building, paper (writing material)
Inscriptions: monogram: ‘AN’, inscription: ‘Fig. 2. - Papeteries Godin: Usine du Coq’
Frontispiece to "Opere varie di architettura, prospettive grotesshi antichità"
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1750
Techniques: etching
Artist: giovanni battista piranesi
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1720 – 1778
Lobed Mirror with Birds, Lions, and Floral Sprays
Object type: decorative art
Materials: bronze
Location: china
Plate 55 from "Los Caprichos": Until death (Hasta la muerte)
Object type: print
Date: 1799 – 1799
Techniques: aquatint, burnishing, drypoint, etching
Location: spain
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: men,women,mirrors

The figure at the center has been variously identified as a vain woman getting ready to celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday or a representation of death itself. She sits at the mirror in her boudoir, trying on a new headpiece, while her maid and two young men—possibly her professed admirers—conceal their sneering. The image shares the tone and concerns of the social satires that appear earlier in the series. Its position might be explained by the old woman’s physical appearance; the artist often used features meant to be read as grotesque to imply moral conditions. The mild caricatures of the first part of the Caprichos yield in the second part to witches, monsters, and barely human clerics.
Quatrain on Snow-covered West Lake
Object type: fan mounted a an album leaf
Date: 1250 – 1260
Materials: ink, silk
Culture: chinese
Artist: emperor lizong
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 1205 – 1264

This fan is not dated, but the style of the writing is very close to that of Lizong's inscription accompanying Landscape at Sunset (Nezu Museum, Tokyo), a painting by the court artist Ma Lin (active ca. 1180–after 1256) that is dated 1254. The poem probably describes the scenery around West Lake in Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song dynasty: On the lake, a bright frozen mist lingers; On the lake, brilliant sights beckon. From the pavilion, I gaze at the mountain peaks; The color of snow and a hazy vapor shine in my winecup. (Wen C. Fong, trans., in Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th-14th Century [New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992], p. 239)
Gedeelte van de Westerkerk te Enkhuizen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1896
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: enkhuizen
Artist: albert dekema
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1824 – 1909
Subjects: church (exterior)
Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1886 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses
Denarius uit het Romeinse Keizerrijk van Augustus, 27 v. Chr. - 14 n. Chr
Object type: denarius
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: lugdunum
Subjects: gaius vipsanius agrippa, caesar, lucius julius caesar vipsanianus
Inscriptions: circumscription: ‘AVGVSTI [F COS DESIG PRINC IV]VENT’, circumscription (false): ‘CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE’, inscription: ‘C L CAESARES’

keerzijde: twee naar elkaar toegewende staande mannen, Gaius en Lucius, met toga, schild en speer, tussen hen in een simpulum (links) en lituus (rechts), omschrift in afsnede
Joannes Forsterus Hebraeus Theologus
Object type: print
Date: 1597 – 1599
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: france
Artist: robert boissard
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1570 – 1611
Subjects: augsburg, historical persons, book
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Deel van de koorbanken in de Grote Kerk te Dordrecht
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: grote of onze-lieve-vrouwekerk
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: interior of church, seats of the clergy, choir-stalls
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘6687 neg. no. 14471’, inscription: ‘Dordrecht. Z-H. Ned. Herv. Kerk Choorbanken.’, annotation
Portret van Lodewijk XIV
Object type: print
Date: 1642 – 1721
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: lodewijk xiv (koning van frankrijk), historical persons

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Conical seal
Object type: stamp seal
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: stone
Culture: achaemenid
Location: iran
The Magdalene kneeling, from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde'
Object type: print
Date: 1730 – 1786
Techniques: printmaking, engraving, etching
Artist: marco alvise pitteri
Artist role: engraver
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1702 – 1786
Subjects: angels,mary magdalene,coat of arms
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1610 – 1670
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Location: central italy
Sutra Cover with the Chinese Character Shou (Longevity)
Object type: sutra cover
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: silk
Culture: chinese

Sutra cover with repeating pattern of the Chinese character shou (longevity); green on a red background. Silk twill damask in two colors.
Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic
Mirage observé le 17 juin 1886, à Madras, et reproduit d'après une photographie
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: chennai
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: mirage, 'fata morgana', rowing facing backward, pulling
Portret van Jan Willem Pieneman met zijn zoon en dochter
Object type: print
Date: 1825 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: abcoude, jan willem pieneman, draughtsman, nicolaas pieneman, adolescent, young woman, maiden, adult man, historical persons, youth, adolescent, artist (in general)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Waarschijnlijk gaat het om een zelfportret van Jan Wilem Pieneman met zijn zoon, Nicolaas Pieneman, en een van zijn dochters, Clasina Henriette of Frederica Wilhelmina Margaretha.
Zuil van Trajanus
Object type: print
Date: 1637 – 1691
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: rome
Subjects: triumphal column with helical friezes, piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture, the soldier; the soldier's life

Detail van het spiraalvormige gebeeldhouwde fries op de Zuil van Trajanus. Het fries toont de oorlogen tussen de Romeinen en de Daciërs. Verklarende nummers in de ondermarge. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Groep staande vrouwen
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1887 – 1934
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: paris
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934
Subjects: adult woman (+ standing)

Blad 20 verso uit schetsboek LIX met 21 bladen.
Two Views of a Design for a Shallow (Drinking?) Bowl wih Handles
Object type: drawing
Date: 1672 – 1725
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: giovanni battista foggini
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1652 – 1725
Subjects: bowls
Omslag voor een fotoreproductie van het schilderij Birthday naar Adolphe Dubasty
Object type: wrapper
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: andries jager
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1825 – 1905
Inscriptions: address: ‘AMSTERDAM,/ A. JAGER,/ Water, 110.’, inscription: ‘BIRTHDAY./ NAAR EENE SCHILDERIJ/ VAN/ A. H. DUBASTY.’

Deze omslag maakt deel uit van een omslag met twaalf fotoreproducties.
Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)
Object type: alabastron
Date: 534 – 401
Materials: glass
Culture: greek, eastern mediterranean

Translucent dark cobalt blue, with handles in same color; trails in opaque white. Inward-sloping rim-disk; tall, slanting, cylindrical neck; short, rounded shoulder; straight-sided body with upward taper; convex bottom; below shoulder, two vertical ring handles with long knobbed tails, applied over trails. One trail attached at edge of rim-disk; another applied on neck below rim, tooled into a close-set feather pattern from top of shoulder to just above bottom with long vertical tooling indents; below this, trail ends in a spiral twist around bottom. Intact, except for one chip in rim; dulling, deep pitting, and weathering.
chest (?) fragment from a statue
Object type: chest
Date: 1353 – 1336
Materials: quartzite
Location: egypt
Lezende man en oude vrouw
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1796
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: leiden
Subjects: reading, old woman
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Gezicht op de pastorie van Stolzenburg
Object type: print
Date: 1800 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Artist: richard bong
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1853 – 1935
Subjects: city-gate
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Met Duitse tekst op verso. Rechtsonder genummerd: 8.
Ter ere van de hertog van Anjou, als dank voor het ontzet van Kamerijk
Object type: medal
Date: 1581 – 1581
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: cambrai
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: paris, françois-hercule de valois (hertog van anjou)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘DEO . ET . FRAN / CISCO . LIBE / RATORIBVS .’, inscription: ‘15 - 81 / CAMERICI . / A / . PERFIDIS / OBSESSI .’

driehoekige penning. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild binnen omschrift. Keerzijde: wapenschild binnen omschrift
Gezicht op Wast Water en bergen
Object type: page
Date: 1857 – 1871
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: lake district
Subjects: lake, mountains
Jasje van witte keperkatoen met in de kraag en manchetten tussenzetsels van machinale kant
Object type: coat
Date: 1905 – 1905
Materials: cotton, linen, mother of pearl
Techniques: lace, weave
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous

Wagenjas van witte keperkatoen met tussenzetsels van machinale kant. Stof: met staande ribbels. Model: gerend. Vierkante matrozenkraag. Lange, iets gepofte mouwen met driehoekige opslag bij de pols. Sluiting oorspronkelijk door middel van twee rijen parelmoeren knopen. Eén rij knopen ontbreekt. De randen van de voorpanden zijn gevoerd met een breed beleg van linnen. Versiering: machinale kant als tussenzetsel en puntstrookjes langs de kraag en de opslagjes.
Exillaria crystallinum parasitic
Object type: photogram
Date: 1853 – 1853
Techniques: cyanotype
Artist: anna atkins
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1799 – 1871
Subjects: plants
Strip
Object type: strip
Date: 1801 – 1833
Techniques: lace
Abklatsch van de krijttekening op pagina 56
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1887 – 1891
Materials: paper
Techniques: printmaking
Artist: willem witsen
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1923

Pagina 57 uit een schetsboek met 29 bladen.
Staand meisje, met een hoed (?)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1834 – 1911
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: jozef israëls
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1824 – 1911
Drie röntgenfoto's
Object type: photograph
Date: 1904 – 1909
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: x-ray examination, (human) skeleton
Inscriptions: name: ‘Dr. Kaisin.’
Thomas J. "Tom" Dolan, Catcher, Denver, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes
Object type: baseball card, photograph
Date: 1888 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: goodwin & company
Artist role: publisher
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950
Subjects: men,portraits,baseball,athletes

The "Old Judge" series of baseball cards (N172) was issued by Goodwin & Company from 1887 to 1890 to promote Old Judge Cigarettes.
Skeleton Wagon #567
Object type: drawing
Date: 1865 – 1865
Materials: ink, watercolor
Techniques: pen
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Vase
Object type: vase
Date: 1815 – 1820
Materials: porcelain
Culture: french
Location: france
Artist: marc schoelcher
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1798 – 1834
Subjects: animals,landscapes

With lavish gilded decoration and delicately painted landscapes, this pair of vases is among the most ornate known with a history of American ownership.