Commissioned for Adriaen Jacob van Dielen (1685-1772), Nagapatnam, India, 1685;{According to the inscription on the object.} ? his son, Willem Jan Baptist van Dielen (1738-1818), Utrecht; ? his son, Adriaan Jacob Willem van Dielen (1772-1812), Utrecht; ? his son, Willem Matthias Jan van Dielen (1805-67), Utrecht and Groesbeek; ? his daughter, Sophia Carolina Agatha Willemina Crommelin-van Dielen (1837-1919), Utrecht and Zeist; ? her son, Claude Crommelin (1873-1946), The Hague; his wife, jonkvrouwe Elisabeth Anna van Welderen baronesse Rengers-van Schuylenburch (1880-1957), Huize Oolde, Laren, Gld.;{jonkvrouwe E. A. van Welderen baronesse Rengers-van Schuylenburch was married to C. Crommelin from 1901 to 1911.} sale, douairière E. A. van Welderen baronesse Rengers-van Schuylenburch, R. Liffers, L.A.M. Jagenau [section jonkvrouwe E. A. van Welderen baronesse Rengers-van Schuylenburch], Huize Oolde, Laren Gld., sold on the premises (Kunsthandel A. Nijstad), 25 september 1947 sqq., no. 316 f., fl. 2,300, to the museum
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