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Woodblock multicolour print: "Tôjin fune-agari Tenkô seibô nyûji no zu", "Chinese Entering the Temple of the Empress of Heaven, the Holy Mother, [after] Disembarking". A procession of seven Chinese carrying lanterns, gongs, a banner, a small altar and a p
Dutch riverscape executed in gold-and-black lacquer, bordered by flowers made of inlaid mother-of-pearl, on the lid of a sewing box made in Nagasaki for export. The riverscape has been inspired by an unidentified print. Around 1800. See also acc. 20941.
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: a Dutch (right) and a Chinese ship (left). Short texts record the dimensions of the ships. No publisher indicated. Nagasaki print.
Painting: group portrait of the Cock Blomhoff family: the wife seated on a couch, the child tugging at her skirt; the wet-nurse standing, the girl servant seated on the floor. Cock Blomhoff is seated on a chair. Inscription reads (on the wooden box): "Ora
Woodblock print, stencilled colours: "Woroshiya-jin no zu", "A Russian". The Russian envoy Rezanov; text stating that he arrived in Nagasaki on October 7, 1804. Bicorn cocked hat with plume; sword at belt, in his right hand a floret. Published by Imami-ya
Litho: "Mogami Toknai". Portrait of Mogami Tokunai [1755-1836], the famous explorer of Ezo (Hokkaidô), the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin, who supplied von Siebold with maps and information about the northern regions during von Siebold's stay in Edo in 1826.
Woodblock multicolour print, triptych: "Kanagawa Yokohama kakaku no kôkei". "A View of the Flowery Pleasure District of Yokohama in Kanagawa", A bird's-eye view of the road leading from the residential quarters of Yokohama to the prostitution quarter, and
Stone sundial from Deshima, bearing the initials "H.C.K." (= Herman C. Kastens, "Opperhoofd" from November 1766 to October 1767). The sundial figures on a painting by Kawahara Keiga (*).
Arita porcelain plate: a Japanese lady feeding birds, and her maid servant holding up a parasol. This decoration is a Japanese variety of the Cornelis Pronk design, commissioned by the VOC in the years 1736-1738 (*). Underglaze blue and overglaze enamels;
Woodblock print: "Snow-viewing in Holland, in the Perspective Style" "Uki-e Oranda yukimi no zu", by Utagawa Toyoharu. Pavilions, a lake and boats on the water, with Dutch passengers on board. An exotic mix of Chinese, Dutch and Japanese elements in (an a
Set of five yellow glass cups, decorated with a flower scroll pattern, blown-cast in a mould. Made in Nagasaki, second half 18th century.
Two telescopes with tubes made of glass. The miniature pictures close to the oculars have been painted on the inside of the glass tube, the other parts of the decoration have been engraved and filled with lacquer on the outside. Probably made in Nagasaki,
Woodblock multicolour print: a Dutch ship entering Nagasaki harbour; text in oval cartouche recording the distances between Nagasaki and six foreign ports. No publisher indicated. Nagasaki print.
Sketch, detail: buildings on the southern shore of Deshima, from "Deshima no zu", "Picture of Deshima", taken from the travelogue manuscript "Nagasaki kibun", "Things Heard in Nagasaki".
Woodblock print: a western opera scene, or another kind of dramatic performance, probably based on a western playbill. From a series entitled ... "Koku yôko zue", "Seductive women of [foreign?] countries" (in the reproduction, the inscription is truncated
Manuscript: map of Deshima, recording the sizes of the various buildings, their status indicated by different colours (*). Situation of 1786-1798, between the rebuilding of the two watchhouses and the removal of the <i>kanbang" warehouse.
Engraving: ritual "seppuku" (""harakiri"") suicide. The performer is seated cross-legged on a mat, cutting his belly with a sword, blood and intestines flowing out. Behind him, right, an assistant holding swords; left, a priest holding a box.
Painting: peaches growing on the gnarled trunk of a dead tree. A curious combination of extreme realism in the rendering of the peaches and "unrestrained" calligraphic brushwork. By Watanabe Kazan, dated 1828.
Portrait "en face" of von Siebold's Chinese assistant "Ko Tsching Dschang" (= Guo Chengzhang), based on drawing by J. Erzleben, signed "J. Erzleben ad nat.del.".
Sake container, decorated with pictures of a 19th century Dutchman holding a telescope and another Dutchman, or assistant, in 18th century costume. Lacquered wood with figures en relief, 18th or 19th century.

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