Justine Rinnooy Kan - Curator, Mauritshuis in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands. Sheila Reda - Junior Curator, Mauritshuis in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands. Martine Gosselink is General Director of the Mauritshuis. Before joining the Rijksmuseum, Gosselink was a partner and co-founder of the cultural collective De Nieuwe Collectie. Since 1995, she has worked on exhibitions, publications and cultural projects for museums in countries including the Netherlands, New York, Iran and Sri Lanka. In 1995, she completed her studies with Professor Ernst van der Wetering at the University of Amsterdam (17th-century art history).

• INTRODUCTIONTHE LOST MUSEUMJustine Rinnooy Kan― 14 ―RARITIES IN THE MUSEUM LANDSCAPE, 1816-1883Gijs van der Ham― 18 ―JEAN THEODORE ROYER’S CHINESE COLLECTIONJan van Campen― 24 ―THE FIRST ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM IN THE NETHERLANDSRudolf Effert― 32 ―A NATIONALISTIC MUSEUM WITH AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION: AN OXYMORON?Sheila Reda― 39 ―ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIES: THE STADHOLDER’S CABINETLaura Smeets― 45 ―A HAT AND TWO PISTOLS DUTCH RELICS IN THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIESEveline Sint Nicolaas― 48 ―THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIES IN ITS INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTEllinoor Bergvelt― 53 ―FROM A WORLD OF DISPARITY TO A CONNECTED WORLDMirjam Hoijtink― 59 ―THE DUTCH FLAG ON DESHIMA JAPAN AND DUTCH PRIDE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYDaan Kok & Daphne Martens― 64 ―TO ‘SOVEREIGN AND COUNTRY’ THE DONATION OF A DRINKING HORN BY JOHANNA PETRONELLA RODEMarion Anker― 73 ―DRINKING CUPS AND GOBLETSDirk Jan Biemond― 76 ―THE AFRICAN GIFT FROM COMMANDER LASTAnnette Schmidt― 80 ―ELEGANT EPIGRAMS GLASSWARE BY WILLEM VAN HEEMSKERKMaartje Brattinga― 84 ―A NINE-LAYERED CHINESE IVORY PUZZLE BALLChing-Ling Wang & Robert van Liere― 88 ―A PEARL AMONG GEMSSuzanne van Leeuwen in collaboration with Sheila Reda― 92 ―THE OTTOMAN PAINTINGS OF JEAN BAPTISTE VANMOUR THE INTANGIBLE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ‘ART’ AND ‘RARITIES’Mirjam Shatanawi― 97 ―TWO MUSEUMS UNDER ONE ROOF AN OVERVIEW OF THE PICTURE GALLERY ON THE UPPER FLOOR (1822-1875)Quentin Buvelot― 102 ―SKATERS, CHILDREN AND TRAVELERS: THE VISITORS TO THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIESShannon van Essen in collaboration with Sheila Reda― 107 ―THE MYSTERY OF THE ‘ICELANDIC FISHERMAN IN HIS CANOE OR KAYAK’Cunera Buijs & Sheila Reda― 113 ―BERET OF THE SUSUHUNAN OF YOGYAKARTA; SEIZED IN THE JAVA WAR’Martine Gosselink in collaboration with Sheila Reda― 117 ―THE KRIS OF SULTAN CAKRANINGRAT IIMarjolein van Asdonck― 124 ―DISCONNECTED FROM ITS ROOTS: A SRI LANKAN CEREMONIAL CANNON IN THE MAURITSHUISISSheila Reda― 128 ―AN ABSENT COLLECTION THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIES AND SRI LANKAPriya Swamy― 133 ―THE NETHERLANDS AND OCEANIA: AN ERRATIC RELATIONSHIPFanny Wonu Veys― 136 ―FROM MONSTROSITY TO UNESCO HERITAGE; SHADOW PUPPETS IN THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIESSPim Westerkamp― 140 ―SOUTH AFRICAN LEATHER DOLLS IN THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIESFrançois Janse van Rensburg― 145 ―THROUGH THE EYES OF GERRIT SCHOUTEN: DIORAMAS IN THE ROYAL CABINET OF RARITIESWendeline Flores― 149 ―THE POLYPHONY OF OTTOMAN-TURKISH OBJECTS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONSErdogan Aykaç― 154 ―EXHIBITS159NOTES170BIBLIOGRAPHY177INDEX OF NAMES181ACKNOWLEDGMENTS184