deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Gezicht op de Rue de Castiglione te Parijs
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: delivery (of newspaper), street-trader, city-view in general; 'veduta' (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage), shop-window, show-window
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 4780, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Straatscène met tal van figuren, waaronder een krantverkoper en een vrouw met een mand met sinaasappels. Op de voorgrond het loket van een schrijver met op de muur tal van aanplakbiljetten, in de achtergrond de Colonne Vendôme. Rechtsonder genummerd: T VIII en linksonder genummerd: 7.
Mde. Rosi, 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.
De maand februari
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1670
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: utrecht
Artist: frederick bloemaert
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1614 – 1669
Subjects: pancakes, february and its 'labours', frying - cc - in the open air
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Een jonge en een oude vrouwen bakken in de open lucht pannenkoeken in het bijzijn van drie kinderen.
Portret van een zittende vrouw
Object type: photograph
Date: 1859 – 1892
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: bremen
Artist: emil tiedemann
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1858 – 1892
Subjects: sitting figure - aa - female human figure, historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘PHOTOGRAPHISCHER SALON/ Emil Tiedemann/ 12 Richtweg 12/ BREMEN.’
S. Cosme et S. Damien, martyrs (St. Cosmas and St. Damian, Martyrs), September 27th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: men,women,saints

This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.
s'Gravenhage. Het Huis ten Bosch
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1897 – 1905
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: lithograph
Location: the hague
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: palace
Oosters tapijt
Object type: prayer rug
Date: 1740 – 1760
Materials: wool
Location: ghiordes

Oosters tapijt, bidkleed, van geknoopte wol, versierd met een korenblauwe mihrab, spitse en getande top, waarin een gestileerde lamp hangt. Beige zwikken met plantaanbladeren. Rond het middenveld drie randen en effen grijze tussenzomen.
Zeeslag in de baai van Vigo, 1702
Object type: history print
Date: 1712 – 1715
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: augsburg
Subjects: battle (+ naval force)

Zeeslag in de baai van Vigo. De Frans-Spaanse vloot wordt op 23 oktober 1702 verslagen door de gecombineerde Engels-Hollandse vloot waarbij de zilvervloot wordt buitgemaakt. Voorstelling in een rijk versierde ornamentele omlijsting met met bovenaan een kaart van het gebied rond Vigo. Onderaan in het midden een cartouche met een beschrijving van de gevechten in het Duits, links Frankrijk met een aap en een bedroefde koopman, rechts Mercurius en twee koopmannen met koopwaar. Blad in de gebonden verzameling platen uitgebracht onder de titel: Repraesentatio belli ... Der Spanische Successions-Krieg [ca. 1720].
Terrae Sanctae seu terrae promissionis nova descripto
Object type: print
Date: 1621 – 1621
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: maps, atlases
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Rechtermiddenbovenplaat van een kaart van Palestina, met opschriften die betrekking hebben op de gebeurtenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament.
A Horseshoe Crab
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1640 – 1680
Materials: paper, watercolor
Location: netherlands
Artist: pieter holsteyn, the younger
Artist nationality: dutch
Artist dates: 1614 – 1687
Inscriptions: Inscribed center, below the head, in pen and brown ink: “PH”; lower right, in pen and brown ink: “zeespinnekop”
Terracotta fragment of a closed shape
Object type: undetermined closed shape
Date: 600 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Black glazed fragment with part of a red line from a closed shape
Pietà, Christ stretched out on a table in a landscape, the Virgin standing behind arms open
Object type: print
Date: 1531 – 1576
Techniques: engraving
Artist: giulio bonasone
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1510 – 1576
Subjects: christ,virgin mary,death
Plein Air Painter at an Easel
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1830
Materials: chalk
Techniques: aquatint, engraving
Artist: anonymous, german, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1800 – 1899
Subjects: painting,men
Gold ring
Object type: ring
Date: 400 – 201
Materials: gold
Culture: etruscan

Revolving ball with filigree decoration.
Panoramic View of Kasteel Ooij and the Tollhouse, North Brabant
Object type: drawing
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: oijen
Artist: josua de grave
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1645 – 1712
Subjects: castle, river, windmill in landscape, toll gate, windmill, farm or solitary house in landscape, oijen
Embroidered Saddle. Tunis
Object type: page
Date: 1851 – 1851
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: salted paper print
Location: london
Artist: hugh owen
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1808 – 1897
Subjects: saddle, london
Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Display of Fireworks on Opening Night...May 24, 1883
Object type: print
Date: 1883 – 1883
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: a. major
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1800 – 1900
Subjects: bridges,fireworks,night,boats,new york city
Mitaine van witte gebreide katoen
Object type: mitt
Date: 1790 – 1820
Materials: cotton
Techniques: knitting
Location: zaanstreek
Artist: Anonymous

Mitaine van witte gebreide katoen, gebreid in een ruitpatroon met bloemen, voor baby of klein kind
Les Forces de l'Europe, Asie, Afrique et Amerique, ou description des principales villes avec leurs fortifications. Dessignées par les meilleurs ingenieurs, particulierement celles qui sont sous la domination de la France (...) et ornées de plusieurs superbes edifices
Object type: print
Date: 1702 – 1703
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: fortress, maps of cities

Plattegrond van de abdij van St. Martin bij Trier aan de Mosel. Plaat nr. 126 in het prentwerk bestaande in totaal uit 276 genummerde platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen in het kader van de Spaanse Successieoorlog. Voor het merendeel zijn deze platen gekopieerd naar de anonieme Franse platen: in Les forces de l'Europe en in: Le theatre de la guerre, dans les Pays-Bas, beide oorspronkelijk uitgegeven door Nicolas de Fer te Parijs (1693-1697) in het kader van de Negenjarige Oorlog. Titel en opschriften in de plaat in het Frans.
De Slinger
Object type: print
Date: 1712 – 1712
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: throwing stones (throwing game) (+ out of doors (sports, games, etc.))
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Luyken, Jan. Des menschen begin, midden en einde. Amsterdam: Wed. Pieter Arentsz II en Cornelis van der Sys, 1712, p. 85.
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1835 – 1840
Materials: cotton
Subjects: flowers
Nose Ring, One of a Pair
Object type: nose ring
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: gold
Location: india
Jar
Object type: jar
Date: 1101 – 1150
Materials: ceramic glaze, glaze, stoneware
Techniques: incising
Culture: korean
Vijf sculpturen en twee reliëfs
Object type: photograph
Date: 1920 – 1940
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bull, parents with their children, adult man, piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture, head (human) - aa - female human figure, sculpture (+ relief ~ sculpture)
Inscriptions: number: ‘30 - 31 - 32/ 33 - 34 - 35/ 36’

Afgebeeld zijn sculpturen van een man, een gezin, een man met een schep, het hoofd van een vrouw en een stier en twee geabstraheerde reliëfs. Deze foto's maken deel uit van een album.
Portret van Willem III, prins van Oranje
Object type: print
Date: 1710 – 1780
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: jacob houbraken
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1698 – 1780
Subjects: the hague, william iii (prince of orange and king of england, scotland, and ireland), knighthood order (garter) - insignia of a knighthood order, e.g.: badge, chain
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van Willem III in een ovaal. Midden onder zijn wapen met een kroon, gedecoreerd met de Kousenband en het devies van de Orde van de Kousenband. Daaronder op een banderol zijn geslachtsspreuk. In een kader zijn naam, titel, geboortedatum en sterfdatum.
Tsushima Province: Clear Evening on the Coast (Tsushima, Kaigan yubare), from the series "Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces (Rokujuyoshu meisho zue)"
Object type: print
Date: 1856 – 1856
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: utagawa hiroshige 歌川 広重
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
S. Gallican, martyr (St. Gallicanus, Martyr), June 25th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: men,horses,saints

This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.
Fotoreproductie van een prent van een begroetingstafereel bij een kerkje op het platteland
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1870
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: baring the head, lifting one's hat, grandparent(s) with grandchild(ren) (family group), saluting, church (exterior) - qq - small church, chapel

Onderdeel van Engels familiealbum met foto's van personen, reizen, cricket en kunstwerken.
Breslau, Am Rathaus
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: breslau
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: townhall, four-wheeled vehicle drawn by two animals
Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Branch and a Dish
Object type: drawing
Date: 1556 – 1641
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, highlighting, pen, drawing, wash
Artist: lazzaro tavarone
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1556 – 1641
Subjects: women,dishes
Maximiliaan I
Object type: print
Date: 1861 – 1889
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: vienna
Subjects: maximilian i (holy roman emperor), fruits: pomegranate, historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Teapot
Object type: teapot
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: hard paste porcelain

The gift of the Hans Syz Collection in 1995 endowed the Museum with nearly three hundred examples of European and Asian ceramics meticulously acquired by Swiss-born collector Dr. Syz (1894–1991) to chart the migration of models and patterns from East to West. Documenting a continuous process of influence and adaptation, these pieces provide a discriminating review of the nuances of stylistic change resulting from three centuries of trade.
Buckle Shank
Object type: buckle shank
Date: 567 – 700
Materials: copper alloy, gold, iron
Culture: visigothic
Glass jar
Object type: jar
Date: 100 – 500
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Colorless. Horizontal, tubular rim, folded out, over, and in; short, concave neck; squat globular body; slight kick in center of bottom, with traces of pontil mark. Complete, but cracked; some very large bubbles; faint iridescence and small patches of brown encrustation on exterior, patches of soil encrustation, weathering, and brilliant iridescence on interior.
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1900 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: the hague
Artist: pieter anne haaxman
Artist role: journalist, kunstcriticus
Artist dates: 1847 – 1935
Subjects: painter, draughtsman, philip zilcken
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Fudō Myōō and Two Attendants
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: ryūshū shūtaku (myōtaku)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1307 – 1388
Subjects: swords,men,buddhism,deities

Fudō Myōō—literally, “the Immovable Wisdom King”—is a fearsome protector of Buddhist teachings. Originally an important deity of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Mikkyō), he was also revered in Zen temples. This triptych of images (1975.268.26–.28), hand-painted but with printed outlines, was created as one of the publication projects promoted by early medieval Zen temples to spread Buddhist teachings and iconography. This printed triptych seems to have been based on a painting of Fudō and his attendants executed by the noted Zen monk-scholar Ryūshū Shūtaku (also known as Myōtaku), who is said to have painted pictures of Fudō on a daily basis for over twenty years. The boy attendants often depicted with Fudō are Kongara (on the right) and Seitaka. The model for this printed triptych was most likely Myōtaku’s painting in the collection of the Henjōkō’in temple at Kōyasan
Destilleerapparatuur
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1683 – 1733
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: bernard picart
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1673 – 1733
Subjects: tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Prenten bedoeld voor: Chomel, Noel. Dictionnaire oeconomique, contenant divers moïens d'augmenter son bien, et de conserver sa santé. Amsterdam: Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier, 1732.
Glass perfume bottle
Object type: perfume bottle
Date: 1 – 200
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Rounded rim, flattened on upper surface; flaring mouth; cylindrical neck, tapering downwards, with deep tooled indent around base; elongated ovoid body; small, round bottom. Intact; many pinprick bubbles; dulling, slight pitting, and patches of iridescent weathering on exterior, soil encrustation and creamy brown weathering on interior.
Jonge lama
Object type: print
Date: 1930 – 1930
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: samuel jessurun de mesquita
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1868 – 1944
Subjects: pack-animal
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Argentinië. Comodoro Rivadavia
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1930
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: comodoro rivadavia
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: pumping of oil
Inscriptions: stamp: ‘REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA/ MINISTERIO D'AGRICULTURA DE LA MACIOR/ [...]/ DIVISION FOTO-CINEMATOGRAFIA’, number: ‘970000’, inscription: ‘(1)/ - Valle "C". Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales de Comodoro Rivadavia./ Vallée "C". Gisemente Pétrolifères Fiscaux à Comodoro Rivadavia (Rép. Argentina)’, number: ‘40.913’, inscription: ‘Boortorens’
Groteske vlakdecoraties met kandelabers, mythologische figuren, fabelwezens, bladranken en trofeeën
Object type: ornament print
Date: 1516 – 1556
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament ~ grotesque, ornament ~ hybrid beings; human and animal forms mixed

In het middengedeelte van het prieel, dat door een met druiventrossen gedecoreerd cassettenplafond overdekt is, staat een fontein. Blad uit serie van 9 bladen.
Vrouw schenkt een bedelaar wijn in
Object type: print
Date: 1687 – 1687
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: wine ~ alcoholic drinks, beggar
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Illustratie uit: Luyken, Jan. Voncken der liefde Jesu, van het godtbegerende zielenvier. Amsterdam: Pieter Arentsz (II), 1687, p. 68.
Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: gold, ink, silk
Culture: japanese
Grafstèle van Alessandro de Sousa Holstein
Object type: print
Date: 1809 – 1809
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: italy
Subjects: historical persons, other kinds of grave-markers, e.g. cross
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Naar een beeld van Antonio Canova dat zich bevindt in de Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi te Rome.
Bedspread
Object type: bedspread
Date: 1650 – 1700
Materials: silk
Fotoreproductie van tien schilderijen
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1872 – 1882
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: stockholm
Subjects: picture, painting
Inscriptions: number: ‘PL. XXVII.’
Full Length Portrait of a Man Standing near Balustrade
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1737 – 1737
Materials: graphite, ink, ivory
Techniques: pen
Location: england
Artist: john vanderbank
Artist nationality: english
Artist dates: 1686 – 1739
Portret van staande jonge man
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1910
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: photography
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: netherlands

Foto op bruin albumblad 30 van familiealbum van Alphons Diepenbrock.
Zeilen en tuigage
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's rigging
Vrouw met waaier
Object type: print
Date: 1763 – 1763
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Subjects: adult woman, fan
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Hexagonal bowl with narrative scenes concerning Lü Dongbin
Object type: bowl
Date: 1700 – 1700
Materials: glaze, gold, paint, porcelain
Techniques: firing, gilding, turning, vitrification
Location: china
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: mark: ‘大 明 成 化 年 製’

Kom, zeszijdig, famille verte, op de wand figurale voorstellingen in een landschap.
Cover
Object type: cover
Date: 1601 – 1650
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: lampas
Location: iran
Subjects: flowers

Seventeenth-century Safavid silks like this one were popular commodities in Europe as well as the local market. Contemporary paintings and court chronicles depict Iranian aristocrats wearing luxurious fabrics such as this one. This richly detailed textile is decorated with interlocking ogival medallions and floral patterns outlined in pale gray on a silver and gold ground.
Finger Ring
Object type: ring
Date: 201 – 300
Materials: gemstone, gold
Culture: east germanic
Subjects: men
Cover (possibly Turban Cover)
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: gilt, linen, metal, silk
Techniques: embroidery, weave, stitching
Location: turkey
Bottle, Seated Figure
Object type: bottle
Date: 401 – 700
Materials: ceramic, pigment
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Subjects: men
S. Romuald, Fondateur des Camaldules (St. Romuald, Founder of the Camaldolese Order), February 7th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1636
Techniques: etching
Artist: jacques callot
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1592 – 1635
Subjects: men,saints

This print is part of a series comprised of a title page, frontispiece, and 122 plates. Each of these 122 plates contains four oval scenes depicting Saints and Religious Events for each day of the year. This etching was originally one of four oval scenes on a plate in the series.
Portret van Johann Gerhard
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1688 – 1688
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: theologian, historical persons

Prent uit: Freher, Paul. Theatrum virorum eruditione clarorum. Neurenberg: Johann Hoffmann, 1688, blad 23.
Portret van Abraham von Humbert
Object type: print
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: augsburg
Subjects: armour, historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt voor: Brucker, Jacob. Bildersal heutiges Tages lebender und durch Gelahrheit berühmter Schrifftsteller. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid, 1752.
[Young Woman with Earrings]
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1870 – 1879
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: portraits,women
Saddle or Traveler's Rug
Object type: rug
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: cotton, wool
Culture: chinese
Subjects: horses
Landschap met een luitspelende vrouw en een vrouw die naar een klassieke zuil wijst
Object type: print
Date: 1751 – 1816
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: reinier vinkeles (i)
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1741 – 1816
Subjects: tuning the lute - cc - out of doors, column, pillar ~ architecture, bee-hive
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Portret van Theodor Hagemann
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1832
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: historical persons, lawyer, attorney at law
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Studie, mogelijk een boeg van een roeiboot
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: rowing-boat, canoe, etc.

Pagina 19 uit een schetsboek met 15 bladen.
Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene
Object type: stamp seal
Date: 734 – 501
Materials: stone
Culture: assyro-babylonian
Location: mesopotamia
Subjects: men
Twee voorstellingen met kapsels en hoofddeksels voor dames
Object type: print
Date: 1782 – 1782
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: styles of hairdress, head (human) - aa - female human figure (+ front view), fashion
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt voor: Köningl. Grosbr. Genealogischer Kalender auf das 1783 Jahr. Lauenburg: J. G. Berenberg, 1782.
Badge or Harness Pendant
Object type: badge or harness pendant
Date: 1400 – 1400
Materials: copper, gold
Culture: spanish
Location: spain
Subjects: angels

Heraldry, or coat-of-arms, were vitally important in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Heraldic emblems were used to identify noble families, cities, regions, and even countries. In addition to being displayed on shields and flags, heraldry was incorporated into architectural decoration on the interior and the exterior of buildings, on furniture, works of art, clothing, and horse equipment. Harness pendants, like this example, would have been attached to a headstall, bridle, or other straps making up the tack of a horse ridden by a nobleman or noblewoman, or a member of their household. Many harness pendants also have decoration that is simply ornamental, or have symbols that are not specifically heraldic in nature.
Ring with Hexagonal Bezel and Stone with "Sri" Inscription
Object type: ring
Materials: gold, stone
Culture: indonesian, javanese