Object data
linen and cotton
height 182 cm × width 364 cm
anonymous
Flag
Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1750 - c. 1830
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-84-12
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Flag with a white hoist with five fixing points, and a vertical blue bar with five rosettes, both narrowing towards the fly. The fly is divided into two sections: near the hoist a red field with a white rectangular pattern and white horizontal bars at the top and the bottom; the outer section is red with white crossed crowbars or sceptres, and has pointed ends.
The date and origin of this flag cannot be traced with any certainty, but it shares many similarities with the flags captured during the expeditions of 1783-85 under the command of Jacob Pieter van Braam in the Dutch East Indies and depicted in a contemporaneous drawing by Engel Hoogerheyden (1740-1809).1 These flags were subsequently displayed as trophies in the Royal Palace in Amsterdam,2 and according to Pool most of these flags can be identified in the collection of the Nationaal Militair Museum in Soesterberg.3 This flag may have been taken on one of the expeditions during the 1780s to 1830s.
Literature
R. van Luttervelt, Beredeneerde inventarislijst van de verzameling oude vlaggen aanwezig op het Koninklijk Paleis te Amsterdam, (Amsterdam) 1948, photocopy of manuscript in RMA, folder NG-MC-1889-83/85 (vlaggen); M. van den Brandhof, Vlaggen, vaandels en standaarden van het Rijksmuseum. Een geïllustreerde catalogus, Amsterdam 1977, no. 218; M. Pool et al., ‘Vergeten vlaggen. De trofeeën van het eskader-Van Braam in de Indische Archipel, 1784’, Armamentaria 36 (2001), pp. 51-72
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Flag, Indonesian Archipelago, c. 1750 - c. 1830', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245357
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