Sunday, August 16, 2015

Rijksmuseum 2015, Again, 1

We continued driving the familiar ground, out of France, across Belgium, and into Netherlands, 3-4 hours, finally arriving in Amsterdam Saturday night. After a trip to BW Campers to pick up stored items, we camped at Gaspaarplas, and spent a couple days cleaning and preparing the camper for storage, and packing for our return to the US. We reserved one day for a trip into Amsterdam for some last minute shopping and for visiting some Rijksmuseum departments we'd not seen before.
Namely, the household goods, as I call them; here, some
incredible hand-painted tea sets, for two, for twelve, etc.

















45 miniature silver items in a doll house kitchen
















More table ware
















How to do big hair in the 18th century
















Hand-painted Meissen cutlery set
















More Meissen...reminding us of the Green Vaults
















Lots of flowery dresses and flowery head-gear
















In the magic lantern collection; some were too lewd even for
me (to post)

















Evolution of double-reed instruments




















Traveling harpsichord
















Oh yes, there is a Delft department; here, a
perpetual calendar






















Breughelesque Delft
















What really knocked us out was the engraved
glassware





















Thus




















And particularly the stippled engraved
glassware





















Sort of pointillist in glass, pretty amazing

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