deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portret van Rijnvis Feith
Object type: print
Date: 1804 – 1836
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: leeuwarden
Subjects: rhijnvis feith
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van de dichter en advocaat Rhijnvis Feith.
Vase fragment
Object type: vase fragment
Date: 670 – 330
Materials: terracotta
Culture: roman
Subjects: eros
Knopen, elf stuks aan een touw
Object type: button
Date: 1880 – 1940
Materials: glass, metal, fiber
Location: europe
Artist: Anonymous

Knopen, elf stuks aan een touw. De knopen zijn rond, goudkleurig en hebben een oog aan de achterzijde. De stenen hebben de vorm van een rozet en in het midden is een rondgeslepen stuk steen of glas gezet in een goudkleurige parelrand. Daaromheen een grovere gefacetteerde parelrand. Uit één van de stenen is de zetting verdwenen.
Palais des Tuileries, Galeries de la Paix, Paris
Object type: tissue stereograph
Date: 1871 – 1871
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, cutting, hand coloring
Location: paris
Subjects: gallery (spacious corridor), devastated, ruined place or city (~ warfare), tuileries palace
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Déposé’, inscription: ‘Ch D’, check stamp: ‘B.K. PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS’
Gold ring: on bezel, lion
Object type: ring with intaglio of lion
Date: 500 – 468
Materials: gold
Culture: etruscan
Subjects: lions

Ring with intaglio of a lion from a tomb group allegedly from Vulci, one of the richest and most impressive sets of Etruscan jewelry ever found.
Bieck, Superintendent, Abgeordneter zur II Kammer
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1860
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: berlin
Subjects: adult man, historical persons
Inscriptions: check stamp: Lugt 2141c, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: photolithograph
Location: united states
Artist: Anonymous
Artist nationality: likely american or british
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Porträtaufnahme Prof. Poggendorffs beim Lichte von brennendem Magnesiumband
Object type: page
Date: 1900 – 1905
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: berlin
Subjects: physicist, old man
Inscriptions: number: ‘Fig. 101.’
Quai Voltaire
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1860 – 1865
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: two-wheeled vehicle drawn by one animal, quay
Comitatus Hannoniae tabula
Object type: print
Date: 1677 – 1720
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Subjects: maps of separate countries or regions, coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.) (+ province; provincial), henegouwen
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Kaart van Henegouwen. Linksboven de titelcartouche met het wapen van Henegouwen. Linksonder een cartouche met legenda. Links daarvan drie schaalstokken: 2 Lieues Communes d'Allemagne de 15 en un Degret / 3 Lieues d'Hainaut, ou Lieues Communes de France de 24 en un Degré / 4 Grandes Lieues de France ou Heures de Chemin de 20 en un Degré. De kaart is voorzien van een zoekrooster en een gradenverdeling langs de randen.
Landbouwinstrumenten, inzending van Busby op de Great Exhibition
Object type: photograph
Date: 1851 – 1851
Materials: glass
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Artist: claude-marie ferrier
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1811 – 1889
Subjects: agricultural implements
Breastplate and Culet
Object type: breastplate and culet
Date: 1500 – 1500
Materials: steel
Culture: italian
Location: italy
Waistcoat
Object type: waistcoat
Date: 1615 – 1620
Materials: linen, metal, silk
Culture: british
Subjects: birds,insects,flowers

In this informal bodice, known as a ‘waistcoat’ in the seventeenth century, floral and vegetal motifs are accounted for with scientific clarity but assembled along traditional continuous meanders. Like seventeenth-century still-life painting in its global reach and analytical approach, the jacket suggests both abundance and taxonomy.
Momoyogusa
Object type: print
Date: 1909 – 1909
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut
Location: kyoto
Subjects: drawing, pulling something, adult man (+ three persons)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Drie mannen, voorovergebogen, op bloten voeten, langs water lopend; de boot die ze voorttrekken is niet afgebeeld.
Gift Cloth (Fukusa)
Object type: gift cloth
Date: 1767 – 1800
Materials: metal thread, silk
Culture: japanese
Subjects: birds,lions,flowers
Portret van André Salmon
Object type: print
Date: 1843 – 1863
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Subjects: gloves, mittens, etc., historical persons
Portret van Albert Cuyp
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1837
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: ernst willem jan bagelaar
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1775 – 1837
Subjects: print maker, richard brakenburg
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Volgens H&L portret van A. Cuyp, echter wellicht portret van R. Brakenburg
Aankondiging van de geboorte van Christus aan Maria
Object type: print
Date: 1550 – 1625
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: pieter jalhea furnius
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1540 – 1626
Subjects: the annunciation: mary kneeling
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De engel Gabriël verschijnt aan Maria terwijl zij zit te lezen aan een lezenaar in een vertrek. Boven de engel zijn God en de Heilige Geest in de gedaante van een duif en in het bijzijn van engelen eveneens verschenen. Onder de voorstelling staat een regel tekst in het Latijn.
"Rustam's Seventh Course: He Kills the White Div",  Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Object type: folio from an illustrated manuscript
Materials: gold, ink, paper, silver, watercolor
Location: iran
Artist: abu'l qasim firdausi
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: iranian
Artist dates: 935 – 1020
Subjects: weapons,men
Prenten tot nut van het algemeen
Object type: print
Date: 1861 – 1929
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing, engraving
Location: leiden
Subjects: animals, birds, ornamental birds: parrot, beasts of prey, predatory animals: lion, hoofed animals: antelope
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 7 voorstellingen van dieren, zoals een parkiet, een zebra en een leeuw. Onder enkele voorstellingen een titel en een vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 7. Linksboven: Bekroond door de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen.
Terracotta rim fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 460 – 440
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, the larger fragment has band of laurel leaves; in tondo, unidentified subject; the smaller fragment has a bit of the band of laurel leaves; Exterior, the larger fragment depicts part of a draped figure facing a male with a himation wrapped around his lower body, with his left elbow resting on a stick, and his right arm bent, with his hand resting on his hip; part of a circumscribed palmette; the smaller fragment has part of a circumscribed palmette on the exterior
Fragment of a Worked Object
Object type: fragment
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: jade
Culture: chinese or turkestani
Breech-Loading Needlefire Rifle
Object type: breech loading needlefire rifle
Date: 1834 – 1866
Materials: horn, steel, wood
Culture: german
Location: germany
Artist: r. berger
Artist role: gunsmith
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1844 – 1870
Paperweight
Object type: glass
Date: 1834 – 1866
Materials: glass
Location: baccarat
Artist: baccarat glassworks
Bunting
Object type: figure
Date: 1760 – 1760
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Artist: bow porcelain factory
Artist role: factory
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1747 – 1776
Subjects: birds
Bronze lampstand
Object type: lampstand
Date: 600 – 501
Materials: bronze
Culture: cypriot

Short stem decorated with two rows of lotus petals.
Head from a figurine of a Woman
Object type: statuette, female head
Date: 1460 – 1295
Materials: pottery
Location: egypt
Portret van Gertrud Maria Rissel
Object type: print
Date: 1637 – 1637
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: historical persons, pearl; pearl necklace, dog
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst in het Latijn in de bovenmarge en in de cartouche.
Torricellian barometer
Object type: torricellian barometer
Date: 1745 – 1745
Materials: wood, gilt, mercury
Landschap met herders en runderen
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1811
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Location: dresden
Subjects: cattle, dragon, landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage), milking
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Tekst in het Duits in de ondermarge. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Billingsgate
Object type: print
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, printing
Artist: james mcneill whistler
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1834 – 1903
Subjects: buildings,men,boats,london
Mother and child
Object type: page
Date: 1888 – 1898
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: mother and baby or young child, carrying a child on the back
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Babies are never carried in the arms, but always on the back.’
Dai Rokuten, from the series "Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)"
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: tsukioka kogyo
Artist role: print maker
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1869 – 1927
Pendant or Ornament with Symmetrical Design
Object type: pendant or ornament
Materials: gold
Culture: indonesian, javanese
A building inside the Agra Fort, Uttar Pradesh, India
Object type: photograph
Date: 1895 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: agra
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: agra
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘66. Fort te Agra.’
Settee
Object type: settee
Date: 1757 – 1760
Materials: wood
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: joseph cox
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1753 – 1773
Vanaf de grond kijkt een groep vogels op naar een biddende arend
Object type: print
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: theo van hoytema
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1863 – 1917
Subjects: predatory birds: eagle, water-birds: goose, shore-birds and wading-birds: stork, walker and runner birds: pheasant, groups of birds, shore-birds and wading-birds: bittern
Inscriptions: date

Onder andere roerdomp, kraai, fazant, ooievaar en gans.
Descrizione e disegno dell'emissario del Lago Albano di Gio Batista Piranesi
Object type: titelprent, frontispice
Date: 1762 – 1762
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: rome
Artist: giovanni battista piranesi
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1720 – 1778
Subjects: ruin of a building ~ architecture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Titelprent van de serie 'Descrizione e Disegno dell'Emissario del Lago Albano'. De serie bestaat uit een titelprent, een vignet, een geornamenteerde letter en negen prenten.
Glass lid
Object type: lid
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: glass
Culture: roman, cypriot

Colorless with greenish tinge. Knocked-off, inverted lip; rounded edge; broad, concave top. Intact; pinprick and large bubbles; patches of black enamel weathering and brilliant iridescence on inside; dulling and iridescence on exterior.
Miss Julia Neillson, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N245), issued in 1890 by Kinney Brothers Tobacco to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Philippe d'Alsace
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1866 – 1876
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: knight
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Civilisation par les Institutions’
Case (Inrō) with Design of Boat Carrying Brushwood Bundles over Waves
Object type: inrō
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: gold, lacquer, pewter
Techniques: fundame, hiramakie, inlay
Culture: japanese
Subjects: waves,boats
Skewer
Object type: skewer
Date: 1750 – 1775
Materials: silver
Culture: american
Location: united states
Artist: daniel dupuy
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1719 – 1807
Schetstocht van tien kunstenaars
Object type: book
Date: 1902 – 1911
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodcut, letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: japan
Inscriptions: date
Ring Fragment
Object type: ring fragment, taweret
Date: 1390 – 1352
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Maude Waldemere, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.
Rijm-prent
Object type: print
Date: 1861 – 1929
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, engraving
Location: leiden
Subjects: human types, letters, alphabet, script, characters (human types), cave, grotto, on the scaffold or place of execution, khoikhoi
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 13 voorstellingen van verschillende aard waarvan de woorden rijmen, zoals schavot, grot en verbod. Onder elke voorstelling een onderschrift in boekdruk.
A Sacrifice, copied from a relief on Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Object type: print
Date: 1565 – 1565
Techniques: etching
Artist: léon davent
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1540 – 1556
Subjects: animals,weapons,men,women

This print comes from the museum’s copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae’ first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clients composed their own selection from the corpus to be bound, or collected a group of prints over time. When Lafreri died, two-third of the existing copper plates went to the Duchetti family (Claudio and Stefano), while another third was distributed among several publishers. The Duchetti appear to have standardized production, offering a more or less uniform version of the Speculum to their clients. The popularity of the prints also inspired other publishers in Rome to make copies however, and to add new prints to the corpus. The museum’s copy of the Speculum entered the collection as a group of 3 albums with inlaid engravings and etchings. The prints have since been removed, but the original place of each print within the album is contained in the accession number: 41.72(volume.place). Originally volume 2, plate 143 in the scrapbook.
Portret van Félix Hement
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1881 – 1891
Materials: paper
Techniques: autotype
Location: france
Artist: michelet
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: historical persons
Home Sweet Home
Object type: drawing
Date: 1816 – 1879
Materials: board, graphite
Culture: american
Artist: william rimmer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american, born england
Artist dates: 1816 – 1879
Subjects: houses,trees
De Hooge school te Franeker
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1786 – 1786
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: northern netherlands
Subjects: university
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gezicht op de universiteit te Franeker (gevestigd in het voormalige Kruisherenklooster te Franeker). Op straat diverse figuren. In de marge een onderschrift in het Nederlands.
Franse steun bij de verovering van de citadel van Antwerpen
Object type: history medal
Date: 1832 – 1832
Materials: silver
Techniques: striking
Location: brussels
Artist: laurent joseph hart
Artist role: die cutter
Artist dates: 1810 – 1860
Subjects: citadel van antwerpen (19e eeuw), strijd om de citadel van antwerpen (1832), belgische revolutie

Zilveren penning. Voorzijde: Franse haan en Belgische leeuw geven elkaar poot binnen omschrift; afsnede: opschrift. Keerzijde: opschrift in tot krans samengebonden eiken- en olijftak.
Drie mensen in een roeiboot op de Theems, waaronder Ella en Winny Uhlenbeck
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1908 – 1911
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: london
Artist: carolina frederika onnen (lien/loen)
Artist dates: 1896 – 1983
Subjects: rowing-boat, canoe, etc., thames

Deze foto's zijn onderdeel van een album.
Evening cape
Object type: evening cape
Date: 1899 – 1899
Materials: silk
Culture: french
Artist: caroline reboux
Artist role: design house
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1870 – 1956
Grote Staat te Maastricht
Object type: print
Date: 1830 – 1899
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: alexander schaepkens
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1815 – 1899
Subjects: street, maastricht
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Unterschidliche Auzierungen zu Thüren und Fenster (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1721 – 1756
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: rocaille ornament, ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Rocaille ornamenten en deur- of raamomlijstingen. Prentnummer 69.
Portrait of General Horace Sebastiani
Object type: print
Date: 1823 – 1823
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: horace vernet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1789 – 1863
Subjects: men,portraits
Theebus met deksel op onderschotel van hardgebakken aardewerk, creamware.
Object type: bus
Date: 1790 – 1810
Materials: earthenware
Location: england
Artist: Anonymous

Theebus van hardgebakken aardewerk, van een kinderservies. De theebus is cilindrisch, het deksel is gewelfd en heeft een bolvorvormige knop. De theebus staat op een onderschotel in de vorm van een voetstuk met op het standvlak driemaal een opengewerkte driepas. De dekselrand en de rand van de bus zijn versierd met een groen uitstralende rand. De theebus hoort bij vier kop en schotels (BK-NM-11012-A t/m BK-NM-11012-D).
Overlijdensbericht aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: overlijdensbericht, overlijdensadvertentie
Materials: paper
Techniques: printing
Location: the hague
Artist: hendrik willem mesdag
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1831 – 1915
Subjects: print maker, jan vrolijk, the hague, painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken
Mlle. Ruhende, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N245), issued in 1890 by Kinney Brothers Tobacco to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Colonnade and Fountain with a Crowned Armorial Shield
Object type: drawing
Date: 1750 – 1800
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, italian, second half of the 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1750 – 1800
Subjects: architecture,columns,fountains
Doncherÿ
Object type: print
Date: 1656 – 1656
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching, hand coloring
Location: the hague
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta'

Prent uit: Zeiller, Martin. Topographia Galliae. 13 dln. Frankfurt: Caspar Merian, 1656, dl. 3, na p. 12.
Firenze. Galleria degli Uffizi. Autoritratto. Giorgione
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1906 – 1930
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: photography
Location: italy
Artist: giorgione
Artist role: painter
Artist dates: 1478 – 1510
Subjects: painter, giorgione, portrait, self-portrait of artist
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘AFE v S’
Pad in een boomrijk vlak landschap
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1874 – 1925
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: jan veth
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1864 – 1925
Subjects: trees, landscapes, road, path

Blad 39 verso uit een schetsboek met 42 bladen.
Landschap studiën
Object type: print
Date: 1829 – 1830
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: barend cornelis koekkoek
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1803 – 1862
Subjects: forest, wood, groups of trees
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In 1829 en 1830 gaf Koekkoek, samen met Daiwaille, zes cahiers uit met ieder zes prenten getiteld Landschapstudiën. Deze werden gebruikt in het tekenonderwijs. Vijftien jaar later werd deze reeks, in een andere samenstelling nogmaals uitgegeven door Meyer en Comp in Amsterdam. Zie: De Bruyn Kops, 1963 en Nollert, 1997.
Staal van grijze chiné-zijde met motief van gestrooide rozen
Object type: sample
Date: 1920 – 1930
Materials: silk
Location: france
Artist: Anonymous

Staal van grijze chiné-zijde met motief van gestrooide rozen.
Sword Guard (Tsuba)
Object type: sword guard tsuba
Date: 1801 – 1833
Materials: copper, gold alloy, silver alloy, gold, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: bamboo
Gezicht op de ruïnes van de Vredestempel, te Rome
Object type: print
Date: 1641 – 1655
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: paris
Subjects: landscape with ruins, temple, shrine ~ roman religion
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 550 – 526
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, below the rim, part of a vine
Schetsblad met zwevende vrouw met trompet, een reiger en een mand met bloemen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1891 – 1941
Materials: pencil, paper
Artist: leo gestel
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1881 – 1941
Subjects: cut flowers; nosegay, bunch of flowers, shore-birds and wading-birds: heron, horn, trumpet, cornet, trombone, tuba, container made of plant material other than wood: basket, flying - aa - female human figure
'Polonaise' Carpet
Object type: carpet
Date: 1601 – 1650
Materials: cotton, metal thread, silk
Techniques: asymmetrically knotted pile, brocade
Location: iran
Subjects: flowers

The field of this silk carpet is filled with flowers, leaves, and scrolling vines—all typical of Persian carpet design of this period, when the hunting and animal scenes popular the previous century fell out of favor. Polonaise carpets like this one are noted for their extensive use of silk and metal-wrapped silk thread. The somewhat muted colors are due to the silk pile; though valued for its strength and softness, silk does not hold dye as well as wool and its color quickly fades. Polonaise carpets, which were often produced in matching pairs, were created both for the local Iranian market and for presentation and sale to Europeans—including the Polish nobility, a fact which accounts for this type’s name.
Celt pendant
Object type: pendant
Date: 1 – 500
Materials: jade, quartz
Culture: guanacaste-nicoya
Location: costa rica
Artist: greater nicoya or central region artitst(s)
Artist role: artist