Game Box with Four Smaller Boxes
Also titled Speeldoos met vier kleinere dozen
c. 1734
- Medium
- iron (metal), copper (metal), amber (fossil resin), gilding (material), wood (plant material)
- Classification
- musical box
- Dimensions
- height 15.8 cm x width 30.2 cm x depth 20.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Mondriaan Stichting, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the VSBfonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This amber box was presumably a wedding gift to Anna of Hanover and Stadtholder William IV. Amber is fossilized resin primarily found around the Baltic Sea. The princess was particularly fond of this material and even crafted items from it herself. This box was probably used to store game pieces.
