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Tabletop
Also titled Tafelblad
Dirk van Rijswijck (Cleves, 1596–na 1)
c. 1650 - c. 1660
- Medium
- touchstone, ebony (wood), marble (rock), wood (plant material), mother of pearl
- Classification
- furniture
- Dimensions
- diameter 138.5 cm
- Museum
- 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
This tabletop is the masterpiece of the renowned Dirck van Rijswijck, who kept it in his workshop to show visitors. It was particularly admired for the extraordinary naturalism of the mother-of-pearl inlay, which combined shells of various colours to create refined depictions of flowers and insects.
