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anonymous

Fragment of a Flag

Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1600 - c. 1700

Object data

linen

height 324 cm × width 398 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-26

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Large fragment of a flag, in bad condition. It is a tricolour in horizontal bars of blue, white (?) and blue.

The date and origin of this flag cannot be traced with any certainty.

Literature

M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 200

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Flag, Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1600 - c. 1700', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.363839

(accessed 23 November 2024 20:55:22).

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