deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Portret van een jonge man
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons, youth, adolescent
Briefkaart aan Jan Veth
Object type: postcard
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: cornelis hofstede de groot
Artist role: kunsthistoricus
Artist dates: 1863 – 1940
Subjects: dordrecht, amsterdam, painter, draughtsman, designer, jan veth, publisher
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Side chair back and seat cover
Object type: upholstery panel
Date: 1739 – 1739
Materials: canvas, hemp, silk, wool
Subjects: flowers
Botanical Garden
Object type: photograph
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Subjects: gardens
Ruit met wapenfragmenten
Object type: light window
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: glass, lead
Techniques: leading
Artist: Anonymous

Een ruit met twee wapens. Van het onderste wapen ontbreekt het wapenschild. In het (gedeelde) wapenschild van het bovenste wapen de letter A en een klimmende haas.
Moeder en dochter bij een tuinhek
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1883 – 1927
Materials: paper
Techniques: wood engraving, letterpress printing
Location: london
Subjects: garden, gate, entrance, mother and daughter(s) (family group)

Prent uit: Jane en Ann Taylor. Little Ann and other poems. Londen: George Routledge & Sons, [1883], p. 23. Of een latere uitgave.
Limestone inscribed box fragment
Object type: box, inscribed
Date: 3900 – 100
Materials: stone
Culture: cypriot

Fragment of an inscribed box; dedicated to the Lady of Paphos.
Portret van Maximilian Ferdinand Hoë von Hoënegg
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Subjects: thunder, attributes of hercules, historical persons, trees: oak, pendant, trinket, 'breloque', sun represented as face, wheel, etc., trees: palm-tree, attributes of mercury, abstract ideas and concepts (+ emblematical representation of concept), armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Keizer Vespasianus te paard
Object type: print
Date: 1596 – 1596
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: portrait of vespasian, historical persons, equestrian statue
Twee tulpen met kleine vos
Object type: drawing
Date: 1637 – 1637
Materials: paint, parchment, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: jacob marrel
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1614 – 1681
Subjects: insects: butterfly, flowers: tulip

De tekening maakt deel uit van een album.
Tablespoon
Object type: tablespoon
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Subjects: musical instruments
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: map
Date: 1702 – 1703
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: paris
Subjects: fortress, maps of cities

Plattegrond van de versterkingen om de Franse stad Calais. Plaat nr. 238 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.
Figuren in het interieur van een café of restaurant
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1906 – 1945
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: reijer stolk
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1896 – 1945
Subjects: inn, coffee-house, public house, etc.

De figuren zitten aan tafels. Blad 10 recto uit een schetsboek met 53 bladen.
Damesschoen van bruine hoedenstro met open vlechtwerk van leren bandjes over de wreef en de zijkant van de schoen
Object type: womenswear
Date: 1955 – 1960
Materials: leather, plastic
Techniques: braiding, casting, tanning
Location: italy
Inscriptions: company name: ‘Leloux // MADE IN ITALY’, address: ‘MADE IN ITALY’, size: ‘36½’

Damesschoen van bruine hoedenstro met open vlechtwerk van leren bandjes over de wreef en de zijkant van de schoen. Model: Vierkante neus, één voorblad en één achterblad. Tussen het achterblad en het voorblad langs de uitsnijding van de voorschoen een vlechtwerk van bruine leren bandjes. De voorkant en achterkant van de hak lopen recht naar beneden. De zijkant loopt iets naar binnen. De hak is bekleed met donkerbruin leer. Zwart kunststof achterlapje en lichtbruin leren zool. Achterblad gevoerd met ivoorwit geruwd leer. Voorblad gevoerd met ivoorwit leer. De binnenzool is van ivoorwit leer. Versiering: Midden verticaal over de wreef wordt het vlechtwerk bij elkaar gehouden door middel van een leren lint die bovenaan gestrikt is.
Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)
Object type: olpe fragment
Date: 525 – 501
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Part of the lower body and foot of an olpe
Glass Fragment
Object type: fragment
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: glass, paint
Culture: french
Location: france
Subjects: human figures
St Paul, from Christ, the Apostles and St Paul with the Creed
Object type: print
Date: 1589 – 1589
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrick goltzius
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: netherlandish
Artist dates: 1558 – 1617
Inscriptions: Lettered lower center: "HG. fe."; and below image: "Nam mihi vita Christus est, & mors lucrum. 14."
Watch
Object type: watch
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: brass, enamel, silver
Subjects: coat of arms
Wig of Nefertiti, inscribed
Object type: nefertiti head wig
Date: 1352 – 1336
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt
Ostrakon
Object type: ostrakon
Date: 601 – 700
Materials: ink, pottery
Culture: coptic
Location: egypt
Subjects: documents
Botanische tuin van de Flora te Keulen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1883 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: cologne
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: botanic garden, 'hortus botanicus', cologne
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘11 Zaterdag 27 Juni/ Cölner Flora/ 11’
Bedroom Scene
Object type: print
Date: 1739 – 1739
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: hand coloring, woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: okumura masanobu
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1686 – 1764
Subjects: male nudes,female nudes
Feest der Vrijheid op de Dam te Amsterdam, 4 maart 1795
Object type: print
Date: 1795 – 1795
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: dancing around the tree of liberty
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Feest der Vrijheid, gevierd bij de inwijding van de vrijheidsboom op de Dam te Amsterdam, 4 maart 1795. Gezicht op de Dam met een grote menigte dansend om de vrijheidsboom. In de marge de drie allegorische emblemen van Vrijheid, Gelijkheid en Broederschap die aan de boom hingen.
14th Century Ramparts and Lilli Gate through which British troops entered during the defence of Ypres
Object type: stereograph
Date: 1914 – 1918
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: ieper
Subjects: city-walls
Inscriptions: number: ‘99’, inscription: ‘By Royal command to their Imperial majesties King George V and Queen Mary’
Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck
Object type: rank badge
Date: 1667 – 1733
Materials: metal thread, silk
Techniques: tapestry
Culture: chinese
Subjects: ducks

The mandarin duck corresponds to the seventh rank of civil officials. By the end of the seventeenth century, Qing dynasty norms had developed and taken hold in the iconography of rank badges. At that time the animals and birds on badges were depicted looking at a sun disk, said to represent the emperor. It is seen in the upper right of this badge.
Portret van Lodewijk Filips II van Orléans
Object type: print
Date: 1792 – 1799
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: lodewijk filips ii (hertog van orléans), ornament ~ medallion, historical persons, ear-rings
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Dish
Object type: dish
Date: 1575 – 1587
Materials: soft paste porcelain
Techniques: underglaze
Artist: medici porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1570 – 1592
Subjects: flowers

The porcelain made at the Medici workshops in Florence was the first to be produced in Europe. Francesco I de’Medici (1541–1587) established a ceramic workshop in the 1560s with the intention of imitation Chinese blue-and-white porcelain. It took approximately ten years of experimentation before the workshop could manufacture the type of porcelain known as soft-paste. While so-called Medici porcelain lacks the ingredients that comprise hard-paste porcelain as made by the Chinese the Medici potters were able to craft a fine white ceramic body with cobalt decoration that represented an outstanding technical achievement for its time. Technically difficult and expensive to make, Medici porcelain was produced in very small quantities, and manufacture is believed to have ceased, or at least significantly diminished with the death of Francesco in 1587. Only fifty-nine pieces of Medici porcelain are known to have survive, of which one-tenth reside in the Museum's collection.
Liefhebber van tafelen
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1780
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: berlin
Artist: daniel nikolaus chodowiecki
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1726 – 1801
Subjects: evening meal, dinner, supper, eating
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt voor: Königl. Grossbr. Genealogischer Kalender auf das Jahr 1781. Lauenburg: J.G. Berenberg, [1780].
De vlucht naar Egypte met het vallend afgodsbeeld
Object type: print
Date: 1480 – 1500
Materials: paper
Techniques: hand coloring
Location: low countries
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: the flight into egypt: mary, joseph, the child (and sometimes others) on their way; mary usually riding on an ass, statues, paintings, etc. ~ objects of worship in roman religion
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Eén van 46 houtsnedes uit Ludolphus de Saxonia "Tboeck vandan leven ons heeren Jesu Christi", een anonieme Nederlandse vertaling. Deze versie van het werk van Ludolphus bevat houtsneden van de Meester van Gouda (II), de Meester van Antwerpen (I) en de Meester van Haarlem, maar van deze houtsnede is de vervaardiger onbekend en is waarschijnlijk een toevoeging bij een latere versie. Botke, K. Boek van Ludolphus is voor het eerst uitgegeven in 1487 door Geeraert Leeu te Antwerpen. In 1488 uitgegeven door Claes Leeu te Antwerpen, in 1495 en 1499 en 1519 door Peter van Os te Zwolle en in 1510 door A. van Berghen te Antwerpen. Deze 46 houtsneden komen waarschijnlijk uit een uitgave van Peter van Os. Botke, K.
Landschap met berken langs een oever
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1910
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: alfred elsen
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1850 – 1914
Subjects: lake, forest path or lane, trees: birch
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘3e etat unique’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Group of Young Women on the Veranda of a Tea House
Object type: woodblock print
Date: 1780 – 1795
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: katsukawa shunchō
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1775 – 1795
Subjects: women,cats,tea houses
Gezicht op de Maas
Object type: drawing
Date: 1805 – 1860
Materials: chalk, paper, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Subjects: river
Jar Label
Object type: jar label
Date: 1390 – 1352
Materials: ink, paint, pottery
Location: egypt
Tijdgenoten
Object type: print
Date: 1840 – 1840
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: hildburghausen
Subjects: publishing, publisher (+ portrait of scholar, scientist), historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Afkomstig uit de portretserie 'Zeitgenossen' nr. 35, uitgegeven na 1840.
Landschap met een kudde bij maanlicht
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1773 – 1773
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: landscapes, moonlight, herd, flock
Inscriptions: date
Teapot
Object type: teapot
Date: 1781 – 1788
Materials: hard paste porcelain
Artist: fulda pottery and porcelain manufactory
Artist role: manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1764 – 1789
Subjects: flowers
Dress
Object type: dress
Date: 301 – 400
Materials: linen, wool
Culture: coptic
Location: egypt
Portret van Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt
Object type: print
Date: 1645 – 1720
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ornament ~ medallion, armour, historical persons
Bille bei Bergedorf
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1894 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Location: hamburg
Subjects: draughtsman, matthias claudius, castle, canals, waters (in city)
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Originalaufnahmen von Wilh. Dreesen, Hof.-Photogr., Flensburg. 1894.’, number: ‘XXXVI.’

Deze prenten maken deel uit van een omslag met 126 prenten op 37 bladen en een tekstblad.
Woollen Caps Worn by Dutch Whalers
Object type: cap
Date: 1650 – 1800
Materials: wool
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: noordse compagnie, spitsbergen, zeeuwsche uytkyck, svalbard

In 1980 archaeologists investigated the graves of 185 Dutchmen – whale hunters, and workers at whale oil refineries – who had died on or near Spitsbergen in the 17th century. Many skeletons were still wearing their knitted woollen head coverings. These caps were highly personal. The men were bundled up against the severe cold and could only be recognized by the colours and patterns of their caps. Presumably this is the reason why the caps went with them into their graves.
[Man with Bucket and Paint Brush]
Object type: ambrotype
Techniques: ambrotype
Artist: peter ralston
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Subjects: men,portraits,brushes
Gezicht op Godesberg met op de voorgrond vier personen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1875 – 1875
Materials: paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: bad godesberg
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village

Onderdeel van Fotoalbum van Robert Daniel Crommelin (1841-1907).
Hoofd van een meisje, en profil
Object type: print
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching, intaglio
Artist: philip zilcken
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1857 – 1930
Subjects: girl (child between toddler and youth)
Inscriptions: date
The Young Hercules in His Cradle
Object type: print
Date: 1533 – 1533
Techniques: engraving
Artist: agostino veneziano (agostino dei musi)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1490 – 1536
Collar
Object type: collar
Materials: cotton
Culture: american
Bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1801 – 1850
Materials: glaze, porcelain
Culture: chinese
Servet van wit linnendamast
Object type: napkin
Date: 1852 – 1889
Materials: linen
Techniques: damask
Location: veghel

Wit linnen damasten servet met eikentakken en het wapen van de baronnen Baud. Gemerkt BvH.
Glass bottle with indented side
Object type: bottle, indented
Date: 101 – 300
Materials: glass
Culture: roman

Translucent blue green. Everted, tubular rim, folded over and in; tall, slender neck with slightly concave profile; steeply sloping shoulder; side of body tapers downwards to outsplayed ridge around base; small, thick, diamond-shaped bottom with pontil scar. On body, four deep vertical indents, forming a roughly square shape in section with projecting, rounded corners. Intact; pinprick and some elongated bubbles, and glassy inclusions; faint dulling and iridescence on exterior, patches of thick soil encrustation and iridescent weathering on interior. Greenish, with indented sides.
Portret van markies Alessandro Maffei
Object type: print
Date: 1702 – 1764
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: italy
Subjects: armour, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Buste naar links van de luitenant-generaal en markies Alessandro Maffei in wapenrusting. Onder de ovale omlijsting de naam van de geportretteerde in een cartouche.
Vase fragment
Object type: vase fragment
Date: 2000 – 1550
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, laconian
Gezicht op Kasteel Rozendael
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: rozendaal
Artist: anoniem (monumentenzorg)
Artist role: fotograaf
Subjects: castle, landscape with tower or castle
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘P/ Kasteel Rozendael te Rozendael bij Velp’
Terracotta shallow angular bowl
Object type: bowl
Date: 1300 – 1090
Materials: terracotta
Culture: mycenaean
Decorated chalice
Object type: chalice, cup, lotiform, relief
Date: 1070 – 664
Materials: faience
Location: egypt
Europeanen aan een kust van een Zuidoost-Aziatisch land
Object type: print
Date: 1806 – 1806
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: asiatic races and peoples, island (in tropical and sub-tropical regions), sri lanka
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Latere staat gebruikt als titelpagina voor: Haafner, Jacob Godfried. Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon. Haarlem: A. Loosjes, 1806.
Jar
Object type: jar
Date: 900 – 801
Materials: ceramic
Culture: iranian
Location: iran
Portret van een onbekende man, mogelijk een zelfportret
Object type: drawing
Date: 1712 – 1750
Materials: paper, pastel
Artist: cornelis troost
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1696 – 1750
Subjects: amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, cornelis troost, head-gear: tricorn, coat, historical persons, wig
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp

Onderwerpsrubrieken binnen de Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Zeden en Gewoonten in Engeren Zin, De Kleeding, Kleederdrachten (tijdvakken), De 18de eeuw (de pruikentijd). Mannen en vrouwen.
Oud-Amsterdam 100 Stadsgezichten
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1870 – 1923
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing, line block
Location: amsterdam
Artist: willem wenckebach
Artist role: designer, draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1860 – 1937
Subjects: city-view in general; 'veduta', the usual house or row of houses, street
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘9-70’ Lugt 1641b

Onderwerpsrubriek binnen de Atlas Amsterdam: Kadijksplein, Karthuizerkerkhof, Kattegat, Kattenburg, Kapelsteeg O.Z., Enge Kerksteeg, Kerkstraat, Kinkerstraat, Kolk O.Z., Koningsplein, Kromboomsloot [Krom Boomssloot], Kostverlorenkade, Kwakersdwarspad, Kalverstraat, Keizersgracht (v.d. Brouwersgracht – Amstel), Klerensloot (Gedempte), Klimopstraat, Kloveniersburgwal, Kraansluis.
Lock
Object type: lock
Date: 1401 – 1600
Materials: iron
Culture: european

The decoration of Gothic iron locks and keys was often elaborate and of the highest standard of workmanship. The motifs were frequently drawn from Gothic architecture, reproducing on a miniature scale complicated tracery patterns and even tiny statuettes. A number of these tiny locks were compound, with some of the mechanisms concealed from view, and required two or even three keys used in sequence to open them. It has been suggested that the greatly expanded use of locks on doors, or coffrets and other types of storage chests was a result of the increasing urbanization of life and the new emphasis on material wealth and private ownership which developed in the late Middle Ages.
Portret van Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Object type: print
Date: 1828 – 1901
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Subjects: paris, politician, historical persons, portrait of a writer
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Maria met kind aan de borst bij een hek
Object type: print
Date: 1503 – 1503
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Subjects: christ-child suckling, or beginning to suckle, e.g. mary uncovering her breast ~ madonna-representations, mary sitting or enthroned, the christ-child in front of her in her lap (or in front of her bosom)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228a

Maria zit op het gras bij een houten hekje en zoogt het Christuskind aan de linkerborst.
O.C.J. Hoogendijk van Domselaar, lid van de Staten van Gelderland, stichter van zeventig huizen voor ambachtslieden te Tiel
Object type: honorary medal
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: the hague
Artist: salomon de vries
Artist role: graveur, medailleur
Artist dates: 1830 – 1899
Subjects: o.c.j. hoogendijk van domselaar, staten van gelderland, tiel

Bronzen penning. Voorzijde: borststuk man binnen tweeregelig omschrift. Keerzijde: huizenblok
Reverse Copy of La Gentilhomme au Grand Manteau, Vu de Face (Gentleman with a Large Mantle, Seen from the Front), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set
Object type: print
Date: 1601 – 1700
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Artist role: artist
Standing Female
Object type: figure
Date: 1301 – 1400
Materials: bronze
Culture: indonesian, javanese
Subjects: female nudes
Overwinningen bij Hasselt en Leuven, ter ere van Willem I Frederik, koning der Nederlanden, penning verleend aan Mr. J.H. Holle, luitenant-kolonel bij de mobiele Zuid-Hollandsche schutterij
Object type: history medal
Date: 1831 – 1831
Materials: bronze
Techniques: striking
Location: netherlands
Artist: johannis petrus schouberg
Artist role: die cutter, draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1798 – 1864
Subjects: berlin, william i of the netherlands, the hague, william ii of the netherlands, louvain
Inscriptions: edge inscription: ‘Hortibus Bis Fusis Patriae Juribus Adsertis Duce Princ. Auriaco Aug MDCCCXXXI’, edge inscription: ‘Wilh.1 Neerlandiae Rex. Luxemb. M.D.V.X’

Bronzen medaille. Voorzijde: borstbeeld van Willem I en randschrift. Keerzijde: Mars (?) en randschrift. Deze penning is vervaardigd van in de Tiendaagse Veldtocht op de vijand veroverd geschut.
Fräulein Telehy, 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.
Enfants hongrois sortant de l'école (...) 8 juillet, 1837
Object type: print
Date: 1838 – 1838
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: paris
Artist: denis auguste marie raffet
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1804 – 1860
Subjects: herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc., child, returning home from school
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 964
Male Head, Probably from a Serving Statue
Object type: head, male statue
Date: 2465 – 2323
Materials: limestone
Location: egypt

Based on the its size, lack of a back support, and short, close fitting hair, this lively head likely originates from a serving statue, a type of Old Kingdom funerary figure that most often showed men and women engaged in food production, as well as playing musical instruments. They were deposited either in serdabs, secluded rooms in the superstructures of Old Kingdom mastaba tombs, or within burial chambers. Although they have been generally thought to represent anonymous workers, some figures bear the names of the tomb owner’s family members, suggesting that they may have been intended to represent relatives or other household staff performing essential tasks. Serving figures are first attested in the later Fourth Dynasty, and they reach their peak during the mid-Fifth Dynasty, before gradually being replaced by other types of funerary figures and models.