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Book illustration: various shells. From "D'Amboynsche Rariteitenkamer" (Amsterdam, 1705), a description of botanical, zoological and mineral specimens from the Indies, by the German biologist Georg Everhard Rumphius.
Title page of "Historia Imperii Japonici", the Latin version of the original English edition of Engelbert Kaempfer's work, edited by the Awiss physician Johann Kaspar Scheuzer. London, 1727.
Chinese porcelain plate painted in "famille rose" enamels; Jingdezhen, c. 1736-1738. The decoration is the familiar "chinoiserie" design made by Cornelis Pronk: a Chinese lady feeding birds and her maidservant holding up a parasol; it was commissioned by
"Netsuke": a standing Dutchman holding a dog in his hands. Hat and long coat. Ivory; early 19th century.
Engraving: panoramic view of the city of Edo "IEDO". City with several high buildings and a vast amount of low houses; a river flowing towards it; farm fields on the rolling hills. In the foreground, left, a two-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses. Right
Title page of Gerard de Lairesse's "Groot Schilderboek", first volume, second edition. Haarlem, 1740.
"Tabako-ire", a tobacco pouch, made of imported 17th century Dutch gold leather. Button, chain, bead and ornamental button made of silver and ivory. Mid-19th century.
Catchword: "Namban - Southern Barbarians; Kômôjin - The red-haired". Painting/ blockprint, detail: close-up of the faces of a Portuguese and a Dutchman (*).
Drawing, based on the map of Deshima "Plan of Decima Nagasaki 1st November 1868", showing the island shortly after its incorporation into a concession.
Pear-shaped ewer with long spout of Arita porcelain, painted in underglaze blue; c. 1670-1690. Human figures in a landscape in Chinese transitional style, and floral patterns (*).
Litho: "Walvischvangst / Wallfischfang": a whaling scene. Based on a Japanese picture.
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: a procession of Chinese performing a religious ritual. According to the text, whenever a Chinese ship has reached Nagasaki harbour, the small altar of the goddess Mazu (or Tianhou, as on the lantern) is carried from th
Copperplate illustration: "'t Eilandje Desima Verblyf Plaats der Hollanders in Japan", from Thomas Salmon "Hedendaagsche Historie of Tegenwoordige Staat van Alle Volkeren" (Amsterdam, 1728). (*). This illustration does not figure in the English edition; c
Painting: bird's eye view of the bay of Nagasaki. Part of the city, and, to the left, the island of Deshima. Boats in the harbour. One of a pair, the other one representing the Cock Blomhoff family (*). By Kawahara Keiga, around 1820.
Title and one section of a painted handscroll: "Gaikoku hyôshiki zu", "Pictures of Flags of Foreign Countries". Dutch title reads: "Nieuwe Vermeerderde vlag Kaart van verscheide Landen van deze Waereld". By Ishizaki Yûshi, dated 1804.
Painting: kingfisher, heron and an ibis-like bird, sitting on the waterside. By Shiba Kôkan, closely resembling one of his oil paintings (*).
A detail from a Nanban screen: a Jezuit priest in a black gown covering his head with his long sleeve; a boy in rich attire, and two Portuguese with arms around each other's shoulders.
The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary, with portraits of St. Xavier and St. Ignatius.
Handscroll, detail: two peacocks; a slave working on the <b>two</B> herbal gardens; <b>two</B> identical entrances to the white-plastered house. Detail of the third section of "Deshima ezu", "Picture of Deshima". Copy (*).
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: the cortege of the Korean embassy sent to Edo in 1811. Third in a series of four prints: an a closed sedan chair with four bearers; two Japanese (interpreters?); a military official on horseback with flag-bearers; two

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