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Dolls’ house of Petronella Oortman
anonymous, c. 1686 - c. 1710, furniture, BK-NM-1010
The exterior of this dolls house is a work of art in its own right, with its mother-of-pearl and pewter veneer. The owners’ initials - Petronella Oortman and her husband Johannes Brandt, a cloth merchant in Amsterdam - are inlaid on both sides. Remarkably, all the domestic furnishings were made…
On display in room 2.20
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.
Stadtholder’s chair
Gerrit Hutte, 1747, BK-NM-1315
Willem IV sat on this chair when he presided over the high court in The Hague. The cabinetmaker who made it, Hutte, and Van Dijck, who carved it, chose an extreme Rococo style for this ceremonial chair. The back is crowned with the arms of Zeeland, Holland and West Friesland and the embroidered…
On display in room 1.2
Parure
Johannes Mattheus van Kempen, c. 1854 - c. 1858, jewellery, BK-KOG-2654
Rand gekleurde naaldkant…
anonymous, c. 1615 - c. 1630, BK-2000-3
Cutlery canteen
Johannes Schiotling, 1772, BK-1964-13
On display in room 1.2
Prayer Nut with Original Case and…
Adam Dircksz (workshop of), c. 1500 - in or before 1531, BK-1981-1
On display in room 0.1
Armchair
anonymous, c. 1615 - c. 1625, furniture, BK-16019
On display in room 2.2
Crown for the King of Ardra
anonymous, c. 1664, jewellery, NG-NM-816-A
On display in room 2.9
Troonzetel van koning Willem II,…
Gebroeders Horrix, 1897 - 1898, NG-C-1995-25-1