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anonymous

Model of a Mess Table

Netherlands, 1820 - 1858

Object data

wood and brass

height 15.8 cm × width 29.8 cm × depth 19.5 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-586

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Model of a ship’s deck with mess table.1

The table and benches are missing, and now only the schematic representation of the deck, the ship’s side with two gun ports and upper deck remain, plus two fixing points for the table in the side and a hook hanging from the ceiling.

Scale unknown.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 586

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Mess Table, Netherlands, 1820 - 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244401

(accessed 27 December 2024 15:01:55).

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