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Royal Cabinet of Curiosities

The Royal Cabinet of Curiosities was established in 1816 by King William I. The collection consisted of a variety of objects, including many from colonized regions.

Objects originating from the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities are found, among others, at the Wereldmuseum Leiden...

Sources

Primary sources

NL-HlmNHA 476 5
Concerns the inventory of the archive of the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities within the archive of the Rijksmuseum and its legal predecessors. — https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/2422AD00C789442FAE99779C81E66552

Secondary sources

NL-HlmNHA 476 1076
Documents concerning the handling of the distribution of objects from the former Royal Cabinet of Curiosities between the Rijks Ethnografisch Museum in Leiden and the Nederlandsch Museum van Geschiedenis en Kunst, 1885-1888. — https://hdl.handle.net/21.12102/2472CF6620004E9E878802D9406CE688
Trade
Kunsthandel Van Lier

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Activity and Type of objects

  • Collection

Geographical

  • China