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

View of Olinda, Brazil

Frans Jansz Post, 1662, painting, SK-A-742

Tempted by Brazil’s sugar plantations, in the 1630s the Dutch captured much of Portugal’s colony on South America’s western coast. They were forced to withdraw in the 1650s. Frans Post went to Brazil from 1636 to 1644 to sketch and paint the country and its inhabitants. Back in the Netherlands, he…

On display in room 2.10

Flute glass

anonymous, after Pieter Nolpe, c. 1680 - c. 1700, BK-KOG-117

On display in room 2.20

Two candlesticks

anonymous, 1668, candlestick, BK-1968-30-A

On display in room 2.19

Mars

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

On display in room 2.26

Windmill cup

anonymous, 1644, BK-KOG-2474

On display in room 2.12

Bust of Mary Stuart

De Grieksche A, c. 1680 - c. 1690, bust, BK-1960-11

On display in room 2.22

Stoel van palissanderhout, bekleed…

anonymous, c. 1610 - c. 1650, BK-NM-5837

Two candle stands guéridons

anonymous, c. 1700, furniture, BK-1972-157-A

On display in room 2.22

Inkstand with the coats of arms of…

anonymous, c. 1670 - c. 1680, BK-NM-12400-79

On display in room 2.22