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Ground Fl., W. Part. AMSTERDAM. 43. Route. 385
3, which contains the important and valuable collection
of *Por -celain and Fayence.
To the right and left of the entrance, in frames, Dutch tiles. — By the
J e ¢ ese vases in front of silk
work of the 18th cent.). The
D the 17th, 18th, and early
contains Chinese and
23. Green Porcelain ;
Royal Blue Porcelain;
ecimens of the so-called
e S. window-wall are
of the outer row to the right
and the cases at the end of the
sh and fon ntal Faye igs dish of the 15th cent.).
ontain fine Italian Majolica (45-16th cent.).
2 | ; the important collection of
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rmer-room) conta
nd Stoneware (1.).
(to the left) is Du
with engraved
7 cut and embel-
g numerous fine
, with G erman
ffes of various
g,
German St Lower Rhine
Yassau (W conia (Kreus-
pseudo-clas e, by Phil. Vinckboons.
The *Cabinet of Engravings (Prentenkabinet; Rooms 498, 197),
ighly valuable collection of about 400,000 plates (many
), about 4000 drawings, a historical atlas of the
lection of portraits of the house of Orange.
1. W.Moes. The most important plates are exhibited
Director, Mr.
in selections (f >quently
nged). Special rooms are reserved for
xtends through all three floors of the
at the beginning of the print-room, descends
Adjoining the Cabinet of Engravings on the E. is Room 189,
containing paintings and sculptures. In the N. part of the room are
fa few portraits of ts (No. 2926 in the second section, Daiwaille,
{Pas tele part of himself) and some paintings by Adr. de Lelie, re-
jpresenting meetings of the ‘Felix Meritis’, or Academy of Art,
ifounded in 1788, and a few unimportant moder paintings. To the
leading to the annexe (p 386).
In the EH. of the room are caaeare of the 17th & 18th
j Centuries. By the entrance-wall: #177. Hendrik de Keyser, Bust of
the wine-merchant Coster (1603); 178. Coloured terracotta bust of
fan ay nown man (1606); No number, Jos, Chinard, Bronze bust of
VJ. Jhalier, the revolutionary; R. Verhulst, Busts of a man and
& o — By the right window-wall and by the rear-wall are the
nal red terracotta * Models of the sculptures on the Raadhuis
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