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Folding Screen with Dutch ships
Also titled Kamerscherm met Nederlandse schepen
c. 1685 - c. 1700
- Medium
- bronze (metal), lacquer (coating), coromandellak
- Classification
- furniture
- Dimensions
- height 321 cm x depth 2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Depicted on this folding screen is the arrival of Dutch ships, and in the centre a hunting scene with Dutchmen in the leading role. They are depicted somewhat comically. In addition to European firearms, they bear some peculiar hunting gear. Everything suggests that the depiction sprouted from the artisan’s imagination to cater to the Chinese public’s curiosity about the ever so strange Europe.
