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Collector's cabinet with miniature apothecary's shop, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. bk-1956-44 /

The focus of this large, wonderfully designed book is an outstanding eighteenth-century Dutch cabinet from the Rijksmuseum's extraordinary furniture collection. This cabinet houses a miraculous collection of curiosities including a mini-apothecary's shop filled with over 300 jars, pots and...

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Other Authors: Duin, Paul van (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Dutch
Published: [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Rijksmuseum Publications, [2017]
Subjects:
Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) > Catalogs.
Cabinets of curiosities > Netherlands > Catalogs.
Apothecary jars > Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
Pharmacy paraphernalia > Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
Nature > Specimens > Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
Curiosities and wonders > Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
Cabinetwork > Netherlands > 18th century > Miscellanea > Catalogs.
Collectors and collecting > Catalogs.
ISBN:9789491714726
9491714724
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Taco Dibbits, Rena M. De Sisto
  • Introduction / Paul van Duin
  • The Collector's cabinet : an introduction / Reinier Baarsen, Paul van Duin
  • In the shadow of Seba and Schijnvoet : the collector's cabinet in context / Roelof van Gelder
  • A Virtuoso cabinet
  • made in Amsterdam? / Reinier Baarsten
  • The Miniature apothecary's shop / Annette I. Bierman
  • The Naturalia collection / Gerhard C. Cadée
  • Conservation / Dave van Gompel
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Catalogue A : the miniature apothecary's shop / Judith J. van der Brugge-Mulder
  • Catalogue B : the naturalia collection [the collection of natural curiosities] / Judith J. van der Brugge-Mulder.

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