Model of a Ship's Galley

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-576

Model of a ship’s galley, painted black.

The model has a square structure with a hearth at the front and a chimney at the back. Two containers, one of which has two compartments, are hung in the galley. They have circular openings in the top. A separate compartment, into which a grating can be inserted from an entrance in the side, is built inside the hearth in such a way that the hot gasses from the hearth surround it completely.

Obreen provides no further details about the galley or De Coninck.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 576. The catalogue number on the model refers to a model of a still, but the model proved to be identical to model NG-MC-574.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 576

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Ship's Galley, Netherlands, 1800 - 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244391