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Grofsmederij Leiden

Model of the Leg of a Bench

Leiden, 1854

Object data

iron and brass

height 42.1 cm × width 25 cm × depth 22.5 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-587

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

A double leg of a bench consisting of a black iron frame with brass caps at the feet, bent at a right angle at the height of the seat, with two wedges for fastening it at that point.

This design for a mess table leg was not accepted, and the model was deposited in the Navy Model Room in 1854.1

Scale unknown.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 587

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Grofsmederij Leiden, Model of the Leg of a Bench, Leiden, 1854', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053834

(accessed 12 December 2025 15:44:56).

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