Found:


Chest with nine bottles

anonymous, c. 1680 - c. 1700, chest, NG-444

The box was probably made in Batavia (Jakarta). The bottles are from Japan. They would have been used for expensive spice oils to prepare food, perfumes or medicines. Representatives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) would present these as gifts to Asian potentates.

On display in room 2.9

Dish Relief

Jan Schoonhoven, 1963, relief (sculpture), SK-A-5007

Although by the 1960s, artist Jan J. Schoonhoven was celebrated worldwide, he continued to work full-time for the Dutch Post Office (PTT). At first he used to make his characteristic white reliefs of squares and rectangles at night, on the kitchen table. Occasionally he tried other shapes. He showed…

On display in room 3.4

A Dutch Merchant, Possibly Andreas…

Chitqua (attributed to), c. 1770, figure, BK-1976-49

Van Braam Houckgeest ran the Dutch East India Company (VOC) base in Canton harbour in south China from 1790 to 1795. He may have commissioned this figure of himself on a previous journey in China. Chinese sculptor Chitqua specialised in this kind of clay portrait, mainly for foreigners. Similar…

On display in room 1.5

Molenbeker

anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1700, BK-NM-803

Mars

Francis van Bossuit, c. 1680 - in or before 1692, figure, BK-1998-74

On display in room 2.26

Vaas

Frans Zwollo (I), 1900, vase, BK-1975-101

On display in room 3.1

Bacchanal of Satyrs and Cupids

Gerard van Opstal, c. 1640 - c. 1642, sculpture, BK-NM-2934

On display in room 2.26

Bowl, with a depiction of ‘A…

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1760, bowl, BK-1959-10

Violin

anonymous, c. 1705 - c. 1710, musical instrument, BK-NM-12400-91

On display in room 2.22

Venetiaanse pantoffelparade

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740 - 1760, drawing, RP-T-1981-68