Three pairs of candlesticks with loose grease traps
Chestnut vase
Two bonbon glasses with lids
Rhetoricians
Allegory on death (?)
Consul Marcus Curius Dentatus prefers turnips to the Samnites’ presents.
The judgement of Solomon
View of Haarlem
View of Haarlem
Clear, colourless glass. Square thickened base, the underside cut in star shape. Stem with knot. Egg-shaped chalice, cut in facets and with diamond tips. Around the centre of the body a garland of leaves or chalices. The rim has a silver band with two lion heads and rings. The lid is missing.
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Clear, colourless glass. Flat base, at the bottom a cut star. Curving oval-shaped body with scalloped rim with fans. Arched lid with pointed faceted knob. Lid cut in diamonds, diamonds and facets, body cut in diamonds and semi-circles, together forming a geometric (star) motif, deeply cut.
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A set consisting of tea caddy, teapot (EM 45-1946) and milk jug (EM 47-1946)
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A pair of Adam style salt shakers with blue-glass inner bowl
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“Rederijkers” (rhetoricians) were aristocratic amateur poets who used to meet in chambers to practice their art.
This is (a 19th century copy of) a painting Jan Steen made for a bet with Frans van Mieris, about who would be the fastest in producing a painting of a certain size.
Dentatus, who lived as a simple farmer but was a consul of Rome, refused a bribe from the Samnites, arguing that he would rather eat turnips and that it was more honourable to conquer those who possessed gold than to own it oneself.
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Landscape drawing of a view of Haarlem. According to Knuttel and Rosenberg, this drawing together with the drawings ‘Gezicht op Haarlem’(T 94-1946) and ‘Gezicht op Haarlem’, (T 95-1946) are from the same sketchbook.
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Landscape drawing of a view of Haarlem. According to Knuttel and Rosenberg, this drawing together with the drawings ‘Gezicht op Haarlem’(T 94-1946) and ‘Gezicht op Haarlem’, (T 96-1946) are from the same sketchbook.
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The bowl is decorated in underglaze blue. The sides show a narrative depiction of Long Thighs, fools and immortals. At the top on the inside is a wide napkinwork border in blue. The catalogue lists the bowl as part of a set with OCVO-42-1946 and OCVO-46-1946.
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A set consisting of a cabaret (presentation tray) with five (originally six) cups. The model of the cup consists of four lobes with a C-shaped ear. The cabaret is also four-pass lobed with two open handles. One of the handles has been broken off and glued. Liqueur sets first appear in 1739; they were used during the drinking of coffee.
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