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Noordeinde Palace in The Hague, displayed in two rows of three shelves, placed one
above the other. Louise de Coligny may have acquired her passion for porcelain
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as early as 1604, when she was asked to select porcelain from the cargo of a ship
captured by the VOC, in all probability the Santa Catarina. A description written
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in 1634 indicates that Catharine Belgica (1578–1648), a daughter of William I from
his third marriage who lived in Noordeinde Palace from 1622 to 1648, displayed her
porcelain on red- and gilt-painted shelves alongside large porcelain pots placed on
stands. Two years earlier, in 1632, Amalia van Solms-Braunfels, who was married
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to William I’s fourth legitimate son Frederick Henry of Orange, third Stadholder
of the States General, had created a cabinet, and around 1632–1634 a gallery, to
display porcelain along with other curiosities at Noordeinde Palace. In 1639, the
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Amsterdam Chamber of the VOC asked the Zeeland Chamber to set aside various
types of the finest porcelain to be presented as gift to Amalia. We know that
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Amalia’s porcelain collection increased considerably in 1642. That year, during the
448 Mentioned in Juliet Claxton, ‘The Countess of
Arundel’s Dutch Pranketing Room: an inventory visit of Queen Henrietta Maria and her daughter Princess Maria Henrietta Stuart
of all the parcells or Purselin, glasses and other to the Dutch Republic, the VOC sent deputies to The Hague with porcelain gifts
Goods now remaining in the Pranketing Roome at
Tart Hall, 8th Sept 1641’, Journal of the History of for them and Amalia. Maria and Amalia each received 642 pieces of porcelain. 454
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Collections, Volume 22, Issue 2, 2010, p. 189; and
Cordula Bischoff, ‘Women collectors and the rise of Frederick Henry and his wife and cousin Amalia, who were heirs of the House of
the porcelain cabinet’, in Van Campen and Eliëns, Orange, established a court in The Hague that could be compared to European royal
2014, p. 171.
449 Mentioned in A.M.L.E. Erkelens, ‘Die Porzellan- courts in France, Spain and England, through displays of wealth, by securing political
sammlung der Amalia van Solms: Aufstellungsweise
und Einfluss in Deutschland’, in W. Savelsberg and alliances through marriage and above all by building palaces, and becoming prominent
C. Völkel (eds.), Die Niederlande und Deutschland. art collectors and patrons. The princesses of the House of Orange, as convincingly
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Aspekte der Beziehungen zweier Länder im 17. Und
18. Jahrhundert, Dessau, 2000, p. 112; and Bischoff, argued by Bischoff, created rooms with large porcelain collections in their palaces that
2014, p. 264, note 81.
450 Mentioned in Erkelens, 2000, p. 112; and Bischoff, served not only as symbols of their high status, but at the same time represented their
2014, p. 171. political and dynastic interests.
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451 n 1648–1649, after the death of her husband,
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Amalia van Solms had a two-part room created as a Van Campen and Sargent have noted that in the early seventeenth century
‘groote porceleyn-cabinet’ in her newly established
apartments at Noordeinde. Erkelens, 2000, pp. porcelain also gained a prominent decorative function in the interior of the households
108-115; and C. Willemijn Fock, ‘The Apartments of middle class residents, who used it to show their prosperity. Emulating the taste
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of Frederick Henry and Amalia of Solms; Princely
Splendour and the Triumph of Porcelain’, in Peter for acquiring and collecting porcelain of the Oranges/Stadholders of the Dutch
van der Ploeg and Carola Vermeeren (eds.), Princely
Patrons. The Collection of Frederick Henry of Orange Republic and upper classes, the urban middle class began to display small pieces of
and Amalia of Solms in The Hague, Zwolle, 1997, pp. porcelain inside hanging cupboards in private rooms. For example, the inventory of
76–86, p. 8of. Mentioned in Bischoff, 2014, p. 171.
452 Mentioned in Fock, 1997, p. 80. the estate of Geertrut Uytten Engh, the widow of a well-known lawyer who died
453 Viallé, 2010, p. 190.
454 VOC 148, Resoluties van de Heren Zeventien, in 1616, lists in her bedroom a closed hanging cupboard which contains silverwork
November 25, 1642. Cited in Viallé, 2010, pp. 207– and ‘2 porcelain cups with silver bases’. The appreciation for porcelain was so high
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209. Mentioned in Van Campen, 2014, p. 197.
Fig. 3.2.1.22 Family in Prayer before Mealtime 455 Mentioned in Hugh J. Mason, ‘Charikleia at among the middle class that silver or silver-gilt mounts were sometimes added to some
Oil on panel, 120.5cm x 191cm the Mauritshuis’, in Marília P. Futre Pinheiro pieces, a custom that as we saw occurred earlier in Portugal, Spain and the Southern
Anonymous, Dutch Republic, dated 1627 and Stephen J. Harrison (eds.), Fictional
Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel, Vol.
Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht 2, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 14.2, Netherlands. Small hanging cupboards with glass doors for displaying small precious
(inv. no. RMCC s49) Groningen, 2011, p. 9; and Bischoff, 2014, objects appear to have been popular during the 1620s and 1630s, as suggested by
p. 181.
Fig. 3.2.1.23 Kraak bowl 456 Ibid., pp. 188–189. an engraving showing two designs for wall cupboards published in series Boutique
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province 457 Jan van Campen, ‘Kraakporselein ‘tot oogen lust Menuseries in 1621, and then again in 1642. This would most probably have been
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Ming dynasty, Wanli/Tianqi reign (1573–1627) en pronkery’’, Keramika, Jaargang 14, nummer 2, the forerunner of the cabinets with glass doors that came to be used to display objects
zomer 2002, pp. 24–27; Sargent, 2012, p. 11; and Van
Diameter: 10.6cm; height: 5.3cm Campen, 2014, pp. 191 and 194.
Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden 458 The inventory is published in Th. H. Lunsingh throughout Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. The English traveller
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(inv. no. GMP 1929/32) Scheurleer, C. W. Fock and A. J. van Dissel, Het Peter Mundy, who visited Amsterdam in 1640 observed in his diary that the people
Rapenburg; geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht,
Leiden, 1986–1992, Part IIIa, pp. 397–403. Cited in are ‘… All in general striving to adorne their houses, especially the outer or street
Van Campen, 2014, p. 191.
Next pages 200–201 459 Published in Ibid., pp. 192–193, fig. 2. roome, with costly peeces, …. Alsoe their other Furniture and Ornaments off their
Fig. 3.2.1.24 Merry Company 460 For a brief discussion on the use of such cabinets
Oil on panel, 47.1cm x 63.2cm in Spain, see Krahe, 2014, Vol. I, pp. 156–157, fig. 45. dwellings very Costly and Curious, Full of pleasure and home contentment, as Ritche
Isack Elyas, dated 1629 461 Richard Carnac Temple (ed.), The Travels of Peter Cupboards, Cabinetts, etts., Imagery, porcelaine, Costly Fine cages with birds, etts.; all
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608–1667, Vol. IV, Travels these commonly in any house off indifferent quality’. 461
(museum no. SK-A-1754) in Europe, 1639–1647, Cambridge, 1925, pp. 70–71.

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