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anonymous

Fragment of a Flag

Indonesian Archipelago, 1600 - 1700

Object data

linen

height 382 cm × width 594 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1889-83-27

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Large fragment of a flag, the upper side is missing. It is white flag with a red rectangle slightly off-centre towards the fly; the corners of the fly have been cut off.

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. 201

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Fragment of a Flag, Indonesian Archipelago, 1600 - 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.245345

(accessed 13 November 2024 01:48:48).

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