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 Milkmaid

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1660, painting, SK-A-2344

A maid concentrates keenly as she pours milk from a jug. It is a quiet, tranquil scene. The only movement is the flow of milk. Vermeer turned a simple composition of a prosaic subject into an intense work of art. It is in the rendering of light that Vermeer truly excelled, painting tiny dots for…

On display in Gallery of Honour

Plaque with a Chinoiserie landscape…

anonymous, c. 1680, BK-1971-117

On display in room 2.22

Plaque with an Italianate Landscape

Frederik van Frytom (attributed to), c. 1670 - c. 1700, BK-NM-475

On display in room 2.22

Honorary Medal Awarded by Frederick…

anonymous, 1629, medal, NG-1983-16-A

On display in room 2.16

Plate with Christ on the Mount of…

De Roos (attributed to), c. 1700 - c. 1725, plate (dishes), BK-NM-12400-61

On display in room 0.7

Zeeslag bij Gibraltar en het…

Gerard van Bylaer, 1607, history medal, NG-VG-1-569

Selene and Endymion

Gerard de Lairesse, c. 1680, painting, SK-A-4210

On display in room 2.22

Dish with a Portrait of Prince…

anonymous, 1658, plate (dishes), BK-NM-3133

On display in room 2.22