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

The Sick Child

Gabriël Metsu, c. 1664 - c. 1666, painting, SK-A-3059

A worried mother looks at her young daughter, slumped listlessly on her lap. Metsu chose an unusual subject, since depictions of poorly children are rare in 17th-century art. Perhaps he intended the mother to personify charity, Caritas. Then the picture of the Crucifixion on the wall would be a…

Banquet Still Life

Adriaen van Utrecht, 1644, painting, SK-C-301

On display in room 2.4

Heraldic tunic from the House of…

Johan Pietersz. Smout (attributed to), 1647, NG-KOG-42

On display in room 2.8

Still Life with Flowers

Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1625 - c. 1630, painting, SK-A-2103

On display in room 2.6

The Capon Aghassi, Chief of the…

Jean Baptiste Vanmour (workshop of), 1700 - 1737, painting, SK-A-2020

On display in room 1.3

Figure of a seated Guanyin holding…

anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1724, figure, AK-RBK-15962

Portrait of a Woman

Herman Verelst, 1667, painting, SK-C-25

Plate with the arms of Holland

anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1724, AK-RBK-15907