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Book Review
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875
06/2020 | 1407 | 162
Pages: 546-547
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Reviewer:
Warren, Jeremy (Warren, Jeremy)
Subjects
media:
Ivories / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Royalty / Kunstkammer / Carvings
subjects:
Danish sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ivories and Narwhal Tusks at Rosenborg Castle: Catalogue of Carved and Turned Ivories and Narwhal Tusks in the Royal Danish Collection 1600–1875 By J rgen Hein. 2 vols, 780 pp. incl. 758 col. + 6 b. & w. ills. (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2018),  196.99. ISBN 978–87–635–4593–8. | :
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Attributed works:
3. Annointment chair of Absolutism, by Bendix I Grodtschilling and workshop. 1662–71, altered in 1684. Silver-gilt figures of the Virtues, by Johan Kohlman. 1685–90. Narwhal tusk ivory, wood and iron, 252 by 117 by 78 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Book Review
The Treasury Collection at Rosenborg Castle: The Inventories of 1696 and 1718: Royal Heritage and Collecting in Denmark–Norway 1500–1900
07/2011 | 1300 | 153
Pages: 484-485
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Reviewer:
Knothe, Florian (Knothe, Florian)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
patrons:
Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1577-1648 / Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway, 1671-1730
places:
Denmark / Norway / Copenhagen
print:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
subjects:
Inventories / Collections, Private / Royalty / Collecting
subjects:
Kunstkammer
subjects:
Regalia
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Treasury Collection at Rosenborg Castle: The Inventories of 1696 and 1718: Royal Heritage and Collecting in Denmark–Norway 1500–1900 | author: Hein, Jørgen
Article
An unknown cameo of James I and the Order of the Garter
06/2006 | 1239 | 148
Pages: 400-405
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Author:
Hein, Jørgen (Hein, Jørgen)
Subjects
dates:
1630-1639 / 1640-1649
museums and institutions:
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
print:
James I, King of England, 1566-1625
print:
Cameo carving
subjects:
James I, King of England, 1566-1625
subjects:
Cameos / Gem carvings / Collections, Public / Identification / Goblets / Cups / Enamels / Gold / Iconography / Order of the Garter
Illustrations
Attributed works:
33. Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Blackfriars in 1600, to attend the marriage of Lord and Lady Herbert, attributed to Robert Peake the Elder. 1600. Canvas, 132 by 188 cm. (Sherborne Castle; photograph by kind permission of J.K. Wingfield Digby).
Attributed works:
40. Christian IV of Denmark’s Great George, here ascribed to Corvinianus Saur. Copenhagen, 1606. Gold, enamel, pearls and diamonds, altered and mounted on a pedestal before 1696, 5.6 by 4.4 by 4.6 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Attributed works:
41. Detail of Fig.40.
Attributed works:
42. Detail of Fig.40.
Western art unattributed:
34. James I. Brown on white sardonyx cameo, oval, 3.8 by 2.7 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Western art unattributed:
35. Cup set with cameos. Northern European, 1635–50. Gold and enamel, 43.3 cm. high (overall). The moor with a dragon dates from c.1615 and originally formed an independent statuette. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Western art unattributed:
36. Hind. Brown on white sardonyx cameo, circular, 3.3 by 3 cm. (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).
Western art unattributed:
37. Duke Ulrik, by an unknown painter. Copenhagen, 1605–10. Canvas, 104 by 83 cm. (Danish Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød).
Western art unattributed:
38. Detail of Fig.37.
Western art unattributed:
39. Duke Ulrik’s Lesser George. Sardonyx, gold and enamel set with fifty-four table-cut diamonds (one missing), 4.6 cm. diam. (cameo); 6.5 cm. diam. (overall). (Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen).