Constantijn Huygens and his ‘East Indian Writing Tray’

Author(s)

  • Jaap Jongstra
  • Jan van Campen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.15067

Abstract

Jaap Jongstra and Jan van Campen describe a letter from Constantijn Huygens from 1629 in which he asks a supplier to provide a writing tray made of red lacquer, exactly like the one he already possessed. Objects with red lacquer were still very rare at that time. Some other objects from Huygens' collection are now housed in the Rijksmuseum.

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Author Biographies

  • Jaap Jongstra

    Jaap Jongstra is an art historian, owner of research bureau Jongstra Ceramics and partner at Jongstra & Van Veen Dutch Delftware.

  • Jan van Campen

    Jan van Campen is curator of Asian export art at the Rijksmuseum.

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Published

2023-06-14

Issue

Vol. 71 No. 2 (2023)

Section

Short notices

License

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Jongstra, Jaap, and Jan van Campen. 2023. “Constantijn Huygens and His ‘East Indian Writing Tray’”. The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 71 (2): 150-59. https://doi.org/10.52476/trb.15067.
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