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

Sword knife hilt

anonymous, 1600 - 1900, AK-MAK-1006

Incense burner with leaves and…

anonymous, anonymous, c. 1800 - c. 1899, AK-MAK-818

Hand guard

anonymous, 1600 - 1699, AK-MAK-1041

Hand guard

Shoami Ietake (possibly), 1600 - 1699, AK-MAK-1080

Hand guard

anonymous, 1600 - 1900, AK-MAK-1122

Hand guard

Nukagawa Yasunori, 1725 - 1825, AK-MAK-1076

Hand guard

Umetada, 1600 - 1800, AK-MAK-1056