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Ceremonial staff
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Stadtholder Maurice, the arms of the town of Enkhuizen, the Pope, Adam and Eve, hunting scenes, Venus, Cupid, poems, European princes and princesses – all of this is represented on a staff incised with the year 1604. It may have been crafted in India to mark the first Dutch–Indian friendship treaty in 1604. Alternatively, it might have been carved by a sailor from the Enkhuizen Chamber of the Dutch East India Company as a way of killing time on board ship.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineCeremonial staff. 1604. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
