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 The chronological museum of the Danish k 
 
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ROSENBORG CASTLE. 
 
Christian IV. 
 
THE CHRONOLOGICAL MUSEUM ^ 
 
 OF 
 
 THE DANISH, KINGS 
 
 IN 
 
 ROSENBORG CASTLE./ 
 
 A SHORT DESCRIPTION 
 
 Doctor P. BROCK, 
 
 INSPECTOR OK T^HK MUSEUM. 
 
 — ^ WITH Se ENGRAVINGS, ;.^— 
 
 THE PUBLISHING COMPANY OF COPENHAdEN. 
 
 G. E. C. GAD. JACOB HEGEL. C. C. LOSE. 
 
 PRINTED BY NIELSEN A L Y D I C H E. 
 
 1892. 
 
Rosenborg Castle. 
 
JKosenborg Castle was founded by King Christian IV in the year 1610 
 and, after having been completed about 1624 or 1625, it served as a 
 residence-villa for the royal family until the beginning of this century. 
 Already in the middle of the 17th century the castle was used as a de- 
 pository for objects of art, weapons, garments of the kings and similar 
 things and by and by in the course of time this family-museum grew 
 into an important and rich historical collection, which has peculiar 
 interest by the circumstance, that the things are arranged in the same 
 rooms, in which these royal persons lived, and that the different rooms 
 show decorations from the various periods of art. Thus the first rooms, 
 which the visitor enters in the groundfloor, are preserved in their 
 original state, from the time of Christian IV, — the Renaissance time 
 — while some of the following rooms have been decorated by his 
 successors in the Rococo style. So, in passing through the castle- we 
 get a view of the changing periods of the culture of the later centu- 
 ries and of the history of Denmark during the same time. 
 
 The collection is of course richest from the time of Christian IV 
 down to our days; as an introduction the museum possesses some 
 few older things from the antecessors of Christian IV of the family of 
 Oldenburg who with Christiern I ascended the throne of Denmark in 
 the year 1448. These older objects, which are partly very interesting 
 and precious, are arranged in the first rooms of the groundfloor. 
 
The groundfloor. 
 
 The stone corridor 
 
 connects the two large rooms in the northern and the southern end of the groundfloor. 
 
 The ceiling is decorated with stucco in plaster, partly from older times, the floor is 
 
 paved with slabs of Gotland sandstone. 
 
 On the ■walls portraits of the follo-osing royal persons. • 
 Queen Dorothea, married with king Christopher the Bavarian (1439 
 — 1448), afterwards with king Christiern I, of the house of Oldenburg 
 (1448 — 1481); a miniature copied from an altar-piece. — Christiern II 
 (15 13 — 1523), half-length, perhaps painted by Albrecht Diirer. — Chri- 
 stian III (1534 — 1559), half-length, engraved on a silver plate by James 
 Bincki535. — The daughter of Christian III, Anne, electress of Saxony. 
 
 — The consort of Frederik II (1559 — 1588), queen Sophia of Mecklenburg, 
 in her girlhood and in her later days. — The daughter of Frederik II, 
 Elisabeth, duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel. — The daughter of Fre- 
 derik II, queen Anne of England, painted by van Somer. — The son 
 of Frederik II, Ulrik, bishop of Sleswick and Schwerin. — The Russian 
 princess Maria, married with the brother of king Frederik II, king Mag- 
 nus of Livonia. — The genealogical tree of king Christian IV (1588 — 
 1648), rising from his great-great-great-grand parents. — Christian IV and 
 queen Anne Catherine (daughter of the elector Joachim Frederik of 
 Brandenburg), both on one canvas, painted by Peter Isachs. — The 
 daughter-in-law of Christian IV, princess Magdalen Sibylla of Saxony, 
 married with the king elect, prince Christian, who died before his father. 
 
 — Frederik III (1648 — 1670). — The consort of Frederik III, queen 
 Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-Liineburg. — The daughter of king Fre- 
 derik III, Anne Sophia, electress of Saxony. — The daughter of Fre- 
 derik III, Frederike Amelia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp. — The hus- 
 band of the latter, Christian Albrecht, duke of Holstein-Gottorp. — The 
 daughter of Frederik III, Vilhelmine Ernestine, electress of the Palatinate 
 (two copies). — Christian V (1670 — 1699), 
 
The stone corridor. 
 
4 The stone corridor. 
 
 Besides these portraits the following sculptures representing royal 
 persons are to be seen in the corridor: 
 
 Frederik II and queen Sophia, busts in bronze, perhaps executed 
 by Labenwolf. — Frederik II, two reliefs in alabaster. — The nephew 
 of Christian IV, king Charles I of England, and his consort, queen Hen- 
 rietta Maria, busts in marble, made by Bernini 1633 and 1640. 
 
 Among the portraits of private persons, especially from the 1 6th and 
 17th century, we notice: 
 
 The reformer, bishop Hans Tausen, painted 1579. — The rich and 
 learned Henry Rantzau, governor of Sleswick and Holstein, painted 
 1598. — The learned theologian Niels Hemmingsen, painted 1595. — 
 The parents of the morganatic consort of Christian IV, Kirsten Munk, 
 Ludvig Munk and Ellen Marsvin. — The son of Christian IV of his 
 morganatic marriage, count Valdemar Christian. — Two natural sons of 
 Christian IV: Hans Ulrik Gyldenlove and Ulrik Christian Gyldenlove; 
 the latter is renowned from, the siege of Copenhagen 1658. — The sta- 
 tesman count Grififenfeldt (at the time of Frederik' III and Christian V). 
 — The naval hero Niels Juel (at the time of Christian V). 
 
 Under the ceiling: Three chandeliers of brass. — A standard with 
 the cipher of Christian IV, formerly in a church in Jutland. 
 
 Over the door to the northern room: The Danish escutcheon, car- 
 ved, in wood, as it was at the time of Christian IV. 
 
 Over the door to the southern room: The Danish escutcheon, pain- 
 ted by Lambert van Haven at the time of Christian V. 
 
 Among the furniture : Seven highbacked chairs covered with gilt 
 leather and seven smaller chairs covered with gilt leather and plain 
 leather. — Various tables, one of which has a slab of Florentine mosaic 
 and another one of mosaic in plaster, in which a map of Denmark 
 made by Francesco Bruno of Naples. — The door of a cabinet of 
 oak-wood, decorated with the carved escutcheons of Denmark and 
 Mecklenburg. 
 
 Through the northern door of the corridor we enter the ar.dience-chamber of Chri- 
 stian IV, or, as it is also called, the queen's room, but as the older objects from the 
 time of the antecessors of Christian IV are arranged in the small tower-room next to 
 the audience-chamber (the bedroom of Christian IV), we will first enter the tower-room 
 and then afterwards return to the audience-chamber for the purpose of a closer ex- 
 amination. 
 
6 The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 The bedroom of Christian IV or 
 the queen's cabinet. 
 
 The floor of this small tower-room is paved with slabs of Gotland sandstone, the 
 lower part of the walls is panelled with oalc-wood and, ornamented with different pain- 
 tings, amongst.which some male and female portraits and two pictures of dogs; the 
 upper part of the walls is covered with green watered and gold-flowered moire; on the 
 door two Venetian prospects are painted. The fireplace, which is of dark marble, is 
 decorated at the top with the cipher of Christian IV and two genii; in the ceiling, which 
 is richly carved in wood, a picture representing Medor and Angelica; around the latter 
 four gilt rings of -wood, by which the curtains of the royal bed are supposed to have 
 been suspended. Christian IV died in this room February 28. 1648. 
 
 In two glass-cabinets : 
 
 From the time of Christiern I (1448 — 1481). 
 
 The Oldenburg drinking horn, supposed to be a work of the sculp- 
 tor Daniel Aretseus,' who was called by king Christiern I from Corvey 
 in Westphalia to Denmark, seems originally to have been intended for 
 a present to the » Three Kings « at Cologne, in case the mediation, 
 undertaken by Christiern I in a dispute between the archbisliop and the 
 chapter of that city, had succeeded. The king, therefore, made a journey 
 to Cologne, but his attempt to mediate in this dispute met with no suc- 
 cess, and so the horn was not used according to the original purpose. 
 It was afterwards kept for a long time at Oldenburg, but after the 
 death of the last count -Anton Giinther 1667, it was inherited by king 
 Frederik III of Denmark. At the close of the 17th century the horn 
 was transferred to the » Cabinet of Art* of Copenhagen, whence it was 
 brought to Rosenborg in the year 1824. According to an old myth 
 the horn came into the possession of the house of Oldenburg as early 
 as 989: Count Otto having lost his way when hunting in a wild region, 
 met with a mountain nymph who offered him a horn containing an en- 
 chanted potion ; he threw away the drink but kept the horn in comme- 
 moration of his adventure. 
 
 The horn, which is of gilt silver with eng4-aved fantastical animals 
 wears in its mounting and lid the aspect of an old castle with knights, 
 esquires and. ladies pllaying on the lute in the windows and watchmen 
 in the towers. It wears some inscriptions in monkish characters 
 amongst which the names of the Three Kings. 
 
 A lock of hair of Christiern I, in a silver capsule. 
 
The Oldenburg drinking horn. 
 
8 The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 From the time of John (1481— 1513). 
 
 A gold medallion surrounded with rubies and emeralds; on the front 
 St. George and the Dragon in enamelled relief, on the reverse Joseph and 
 the Virgin kneeling by the Holy Child in the crib; is supposed to 
 have belonged to the insignia of the Order of the Garter worn by 
 king John. 
 
 From the time of Christiern II (1513—1523)- 
 
 The handle of a knife in gold with the cipher of Christiern II. — 
 A gold ring with an uncut sapphire, on which are engraved three 
 crowns and the inscription ave maria^gr. {0: gratia plena) in monkish 
 characters; this ring is supposed to have been the wedding-ring of queen 
 Elisabeth, consort of Christiern II. 
 
 From the time of Frederik I (1523— 1553). 
 
 A swordblade with the name and title of Frederik I and the 
 year 1530. 
 
 From the time of Christian III (i534— 1559)' 
 
 A bridal ornament presented by the consort of Christian III, 
 queen Dorothea, to the town hall of Copenhagen with a view, 
 that every commoner's bride, whose marriage took place in the town 
 hall, was to wear it upon her bosom on her wedding-evening. It consists 
 of a large silver gilt plate, on which different flowers and leaves of 
 embossed gilt silver. In the middle of it a barbarian eagle with out- 
 spread wings; upon the breast of the eagle a large sapphire and in its 
 talons the Saxon escutcheon (the family arms of the queen) with the 
 year 1557. Over the eagle an emerald and a sapphire, under the 
 escutcheon a sapphire and an amethyst, and besides in different spots 
 six large pearls. This ornament was transmitted to Rosenborg from 
 the town hall in the year 1859. 
 
 A small timepiece, in a square silver gilt case with the year 1556. 
 On one side is engraved the Danish escutcheon with the arms of 
 Saxony in the centre, on the other an astronomer is seen occupied 
 with calculations of the sun, the moon and the stars, which are shining 
 at once in the sky; the backside is decorated with a representation 
 of Justice. Belonged to queen Dorothea. 
 
 A silver goblet and a silver plate with the arms of Christian III. 
 
The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 The bridal ornament of queen Dorothea. 
 
 From the time of Frederik II (1559— 1588). 
 The insignia of the Order of the Garter conferred on Frede- 
 rik II by queen Elisabeth of England in the year 1582. The mag- 
 
The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 I I 
 
 The Elepbant Order 
 of Prederik II. 
 
 nificent chain consists of 26 small round 
 shields, each bearing the device of the 
 order: HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE 
 around an enamelled rose in the centre; un- 
 der the centre shield hangs the badge of 
 the order in gold : St. George and the Dra- 
 gon, also with the device of the order. Upon 
 the garter, which is of blue velvet and 
 edged with white pearls, the device of the 
 order is designed in rubies, and the gold 
 clasp is also ornamented with diamonds 
 and rubies. 
 
 St. George and the Dragon, a group in 
 enamel, set with diamonds; is supposed to 
 have belonged to the Order of the Garter. 
 
 (Formerly the Order ofj the Elephant of 
 Frederik II was preserved here, but it is 
 now kept among the regalia). 
 
 A compass in a silver gilt case with the year 1573; on the 
 outside of the lid a crowned F. — A knife with an ebony handle 
 inlaid with silver; on one side the cipher of Frederik 11 and the year 
 1570, on the other: MHZGA (the king's motto: Meine HofTnung zu Gott 
 allein, my hope is in God alone), t- A small timepiece with the cipher 
 ofFrederikll'and the year 1576; made by the same artist who made the 
 timepiece of 1556. — A large glass-goblet upon which several names and 
 mottoes, amongst which that of Frederik II and the year 1568 are cut. 
 
 — A gold ring with ablueish green stone, found in the year 1857 at the 
 examination of the corpse of Frederik II in his coffin in the cathedral 
 of Kokkilde. — The toilet mirror of queen Sophia, consort of Frederik 
 II, in a silver gilt frame, richly ornamented with garnets and amethysts. 
 
 — Her silver gilt spoon with her arms, a crowned F and SKZD 
 (Sophia Konigin zu Danemark, Sophia queen of Denmark). — A gold 
 knife-handle enameUed in black with her crowned cipher. — Several 
 silver plates with disks of amber and with the Danish escutcheon and 
 various German arms; they are all inscribed: SMZBGHZBVL 1585 
 (Sophia Markgrafin zu Brandenburg, geborene Herzogin zu Braunschweig 
 und Liineburg, Sophia margravine of Brandenburg, late duchess of 
 Brunswick aijd Liineburg). They were probably presented to Fre- 
 derik II by the said princess, who was a daughter of duke Wil- 
 liam of Brunswick-Liineburg and of Dorothea, daughter of the Danish 
 king Christian III, and^ who in the year 1579 ^^^ married with the 
 margrave George Frederik of Brandenburg. — A silver plate which 
 
12 
 
 The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 belonged to the hunting service of Fredeiik II; it is decorated with 
 hunting scenes in relief and with the crowned interlaced cipher of the 
 king. — A silver can with hd wearing the cipher of Frederik II. — A 
 timepiece, made 1561, in a square gilt metal case, decorated with differ- 
 ent ornaments and figures in embossed workmanship and resting upon 
 lions' feet; a Danish inscription tells, that the timepiece was presented in 
 the year 1584 to Christian IV by his father Frederik II. — A scent-box 
 consisting of an enamelled death's head, hanging by a string of pearls, partly 
 composed of death's heads of coral; is supposed to have belonged to 
 the son-in-law of Christian IV, count Ulfeldt. — An astronomical globe 
 
 The timepiece of Christian IV. 
 
 of the year 1572, supposed to have been presented to king Christian IV 
 in the year 1590 by the renowned astronomer Tycho Brahe. 
 
 From the time of Christian IV (1588— 1648). 
 
 Christian IV, son of Frederik II and queen Sophia, was born in the year 1577 and 
 was some years afterwards elected as the future successor of his father; on the death 
 of his father 1 588 he was only 11 years old and he therefore reigned under a regency, 
 till 1596 when he himself assumed the government and was crowned. In the following year 
 1597 he married Anne Catherine, daughter of the administrator of Magdeburg, afterwards 
 
1 he bedroom of Christian IV. 1 3 
 
 elector of Brandenburg Joacliim Frederilc, but she died already 1612; some years after 
 the death of queen Anne Catherine, in 1615 he entered into a left-handed marriage with 
 Miss Kirsten Munk, whom he divorced 1629. Christian IV promoted science, art and 
 industry, he was a skilful architect, a very industrious and diligent monarch and a real 
 hero in war. In the years 1611 — 1613 he carried on the so colled war of Kalmar with 
 Sweden, engaged 1625— 1629 in the thirty years' war and finally 1643—1645 he carried 
 on an unhappy war with Sweden, in which, however, in spite of his old age he stands 
 as a model of courage and activity for the welfare of his countries. He died 1648 at 
 Rosenborg castle, aged 71, years, after a reign of 60 years. 
 
 The compass of Christian IV in a round box; upon the lid CR 
 1595. — A silver ship's lantern with the cipher of Christian IV. — 
 Two silver night-lamps in the shape of ships. — A tankard of Chinese 
 porcelain made 1 621 according to an inscription on the lid: it was brought 
 to Denmark from the East-Indies by the admiral Ove Gjedde. — A 
 pair of scales with bowls and weights in silver, used by Christian IV 
 to weigh out gold and silver to the warden of the mint. — Several 
 objects turned by Christian IV in ivory and narwhale horn. — A silver 
 goblet of the year 1600 with an inscription, telling, that it was made 
 in memory of a wager between Christian IV and four of his courtiers, which 
 of them should first become intoxicated between the sixth of February and 
 Easter. — The travelling mirror of Christian IV; on the backside his 
 crowned cipher and his motto in enamel. — A double hourglass with 
 an enameOed gold frame wearing the motto of Christian IV and the 
 year 1633. — ■ A goblet of lapis lazuli. — A bowl of agate of the year 
 1620 with the escutcheon of Wiirtemberg. — A goblet of cocoa-nut, 
 upon which representations of the creation of woman, the fall and the 
 expulsion from paradise. — Various goblets, bowls and similar objects 
 of gold, silver, glass, rockcrystal, jasper, serpentine, jade and agate, 
 amongst which a small goblet of agate with the cipher of the morga- 
 natic consort of Christian IV, Kirsten Munk. — Two silver medallions 
 with portraits of Christian IV and queen Anne Catherine. — Portraits 
 of Christian IV and Kirsten Munk, painted 1623. — A gold chalice, 
 with waferbox, paten and cup, which belonged to the sister of Christian 
 IV, the duchess Augusta; upon the stem of the chalice a white enam- 
 elled death's head, the eyes of which are formed by two large diamonds. 
 
 — The gold chalice of Christian IV, very beautifully enamelled. — A 
 model of Rosenborg castle in ivory. , 
 
 On the walls: Portrait of Christian IV, painted by Peter Isachs. 
 
 — Christian IV standing with his dog by his side; painted 1638. — 
 Three pictures with Christian IV on horseback in the foreground; in 
 the background respectively a tournament, Kronborg castle and Kalmar 
 castle. — Portrait of Christian IV, a copper plate engraved by Albert 
 
14 
 
 The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 Haelwech after the picture by Charles van Mandern. — Christian IV with 
 a' baton in his hand; a copper plate engraved byH. A. Greys; on the 
 other side a portrait of the physician Ole Worm, engraved by Hael- 
 wech. — A smaller portrait of Christian IV, painted in his younger age. 
 — ■ Christian IV, full-length, composed of numerous very small letters, 
 made by Hans Wechter of Erfurth 1640. This drawing contains all 
 
 the twelve chapters of the Ec- 
 clesiastes, the 25th chapter of 
 the Proverbs, ihe 5th chapter 
 of the Wisdom of Solomon 
 and the 3rd chapter of the 
 first book of the Kings. — 
 Christian IV upon the bier, 
 picture on canvas ; the sketch 
 of the picture, painted in 
 water-colours, made 1648 by 
 J. G. Reinold ofStrasburg. — 
 Portrait of queen Anne Ca- 
 therine with the king elect, 
 prince Christian. — Portrait 
 of the dog of queen Anne 
 Catherine, painted 1598. — 
 Portrait of the king elect, 
 prince Christian, on horse- 
 back, painted on copper. — 
 Portrait of the countess Le- 
 onora Christine Ulfeldt (daugh- 
 ter of Christian IV and of 
 his morganatic consort), whose 
 memoirs have been translated 
 into English. — Two small 
 portraits of her husband, count 
 Corfitz Ulfeldt. 
 
 A large allegorical picture, 
 painted by Adrian van der Venne, representing Christian IV as a ne- 
 gociator of peace in the thirty years' war. — The writing tablet of 
 Christian IV, of wood with the year 1638. 
 
 Over the entrance door: The antlers of a stag, which in the year 
 161 1 during the war between the Swedes and the Danes fled into the 
 town of Kalmar and thus saved the Danish garrison from being sur- 
 prised by the Swedes. 
 
 The chalice of Christian IV. 
 
I'he bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 15 
 
 /// a corner of the room: A large lantern with the cipher of Chri- 
 stian IV; used by the king on board ship. 
 
 On the mantel-piccc : A jar of china with artificial flowers and fruits. 
 
 In the windows: A brass chafing-dish wearing the date 1636, the 
 cipher of Christian IV and the name of his daughter ELINORE KIER- 
 STINE (countess Ulfeldt). — A large brass dish corresponding to the 
 chafing-dish. — A large dish of tin, with the crowned cipher of Chri- 
 stian IV, encircled by the year 1638 and w^ith the arms and initials 
 of the natural son of the 'king, Hans Ulrik Gyldenl0ve and his wife 
 Regitze Grubbe (HVG, RG). — A tin goblet wearing the cipher of Chri- 
 stian IV, the year 1633, and the following inscriptions: KOPENHAGEN 
 
 The prayerbook af Anne Catherine, daughter of Christian IV. 
 
 SLOT (Copenhagen palace) and SOPHIA ELISABETH (the name of 
 one of his daughters of his morganatic marriage). 
 
 Furniture: Four tabourets covered with velvet, in which the cipher 
 of the king. — A marble-topped table with a cross-barred foot; upon 
 this table a glass-case in which among other objects: Several miniatures 
 of Christian IV (among these two miniature busts in wax); queen Anne 
 Catherine; the king elect, prince Christian, and his consort Magdalen 
 Sibylla; Elisabeth, sister of Christian IV, and her husband , the duke 
 Henry Julius of Brunswick- Wolfenbiittel; the Swedish king Gustavus 
 Adolphus, Philip II of Spain and the emperor Ferdinand. — Va- 
 rious spoons, among which a small one of gold, the handle of which 
 
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 The bedroom of Christian IV. 
 
 terminates in a crowned lion's head; at the end the interlaced initi- 
 als of the king and his . morganatic consort (C, Christian, and K, 
 Kirsten); the bowl consists of a large sapphire. — A gold brooch inlaid 
 with enamel and with the cipher of the morganatic consort of Christian 
 IV, a crowned K; on the other side in relief, Noah's Ark taking in 
 the animals. — Several ornaments of gold, enamel or pearls set with 
 precious stones. — A bracelet of hair (supposed to be that of Christian 
 IV) adorned with 8 diamonds, several ornaments in enamel and the 
 cipher of queen Anne Catherine. — A gold chain bracelet with the 
 cipher of Christian IV on the backside of the alternate links; on the 
 
 The Order of the Armed Arm. 
 
 The Elephant Order 
 of Christian IV. 
 
 frontside alternately hour glasses, each consisting of two diamonds, and 
 helmets, the visors of which consist of rubies. — Two gold chain bra- 
 celets with embossed representations of the four seasons, each adorned 
 with 52 diamonds as a symbol of the same number of the weeks of 
 the year. — A gold album binding beautifully inlaid with enamel, wearing 
 the escutcheons of Sleswick and Holstein and the name of the duke 
 John Adolphus on one side, the Danish escutcheon and the name of the 
 consort ' of the said duke, Augusta, sister of Christian IV, on the 
 other side. — Two manuscript prayer-books bound in velvet and with 
 enamelled gold clasps; on the larger one the numeral characters of 3, 
 4, 10, 12 3: C4KM, Christian IV, Kirsten Munk, according to the alpha- 
 
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 a 
 
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 A 
 H 
 
1 o The audience-chamber of Christian IV. 
 
 betic series of the letters; on the smaller one C and K interlaced. — 
 A magnificently enamelled album; on the clasps the cipher of Anne 
 Catherine, daughter oi Christian IV and Kirsten Munk; she was be- 
 trothed to the Lord High Steward Franz Rantzau, who by an accident 
 was drowned in the Rosenborg moat November 5th 1632 ; Anne Ca- 
 therine died of a broken heart in the following year. The book con- 
 tains several French verses and psalms in the handwriting of Anne 
 Catherine. — Four specimens of the Order of the Armed Arm, instituted 
 by Christian IV in 16 16, one of them joined to the Order of the Ele- 
 phant; after 1634. the Armed Arm was no more conferred. — > The Or- 
 der of the Garter worn by Christian IV and the badge of the 
 Order, St. George slaying the Dragon; the Order of the Garter was 
 conferred on Christian IV in the year 1603, when his brother-in-law 
 king James had ascended the throne of Great Britain. — A square 
 piece of jade in a silver mounting with an inscription telling, that the 
 king at the moment of his death wore the stone suspended by a gold 
 chain round his neck. 
 
 The audience-chamber of Christian IV or the queen's 
 
 apartment. 
 
 The walls of this room are of oak; twenty two Ionian pilasters, equally of oak, 
 carry the ceiling; the latter and the interstices between the pilasters are adorned with 
 numerous paintings, supposed to have been made by Momper and Breughel; they are 
 of very different artistic value and contain partly biblical representations, partly hunting 
 scenes, landscapes, prospects, allegories etc.; one of these pictures wears the year 1613. 
 Above the mantel-piece, which is of sandstone and marble, is the cipher of Christian IV 
 and the year 161 5. The floor is paved with marble slabs. From the window in the 
 eastern wall a speaking-tube 150 feet long runs to the corresponding room in the south- 
 ern end of the groundfloor. 
 
 In the hay windows: Portraits of the chancellor Niels Kaas, the mem- 
 bers of the council j0rgen Rosenkrands and Preben Gyldenstjerne, the 
 viceroy of Norway Gregers Krabbe. — A picture representing Christian 
 IV on horseback in the foreground; in the background Frederiksborg 
 castle. — A picture representing the derision of the Redeemer, after 
 a dream which Christian IV had at Rothenburg December 8th 1625. — 
 A picture representing a dream which Christian IV had in the night 
 before the naval battle of Listerdyb 1644. 
 
 Before the chimney: Two brass firedogs with tongs and shovel. 
 
 In a corner of the room: A colossal bust in bronze of Christian IV, 
 
A cabinet of 1580. 
 
The audience-chamber of Christian IV. 
 
 supposed to have been made at Gluckstadt by a French artist; saved 
 from the first fire of Christiansborg palace 1794. 
 
 In another corner of the room: A large clock made at Strasbourg 
 1594 by Isaak Habrecht; it contains a music work and several turning 
 figures ; on the top the cock of St. Peter. 
 
 In the centre of the room: An exquisitely beautiful cabinet of ebony 
 adorned with gilt metal plates partly with engraved biblical and mytholo- 
 gical representations, partly with figures in embossed workmanship; on 
 
 A chest of 1599. 
 
 the outside of the leaf the year 158c. The engravings are made after- 
 Bibhsche Figuren des alten und newen Testaments, gantz kunstUch c^e- 
 nssen Durch den weitberhiimpten Vergilium Solis zu Nurnberg, Frank- 
 furt am Main 1560. 
 
 On this cabinet stands a so called crown-clock. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A six-branched brass chandelier. 
 
 At the eastern ivall: A large chest, bound with iron and covered 
 with green velvet, adorned with the intertwined ciphers of Christian IV 
 
The knighting sword of Christian IV. 
 
22 The audience-chamber of Christian IV. 
 
 and queen Anne Catherine and the year 1599. Found in a hospital 'at 
 Odense in Funen. 
 
 Among the furniture may be noted six chairs covered with velvet 
 interwoven with gold and adorned with the cipher and motto of Chri- 
 stian IV and three tabourets covered in a similar way. 
 
 In the southern wall there are several closets containing especially weapons and 
 garments. Among these objects we notice: 
 
 Two executioners' swords made by Johannes Wundes of Solingen 
 at the close of the i6th century. — Several weapons which belonged to 
 Frederik II: two guns, one of which is a musket with the year 1585 
 and an eye-glass in a gold mounting, a brace of pistols with key to the 
 wheel-lock, on which the year 1585, two swords, the one with the year 
 1576, the other made 1584 by Andreis Munsten of Solingen, and three 
 hunting-knives of 1585 and 1586. — A wooden baton with inlaid 
 representations of Kronborg castle and of hunting scenes in metal; 
 at the top KRONBURG, underneath MHZGA, TIW (the second motto 
 of Frederik II: Treue ist Wildbradt, fidelity is [as scarce as] venison), the 
 cipher of Frederik II and the year 1587. At the surprise of Kronborg 
 1658 by the Swedes the baton was brought to Sweden and disappeared 
 totally for a long time, until it was found again at Stockholm several 
 years ago. 
 
 A large sword, made 1590 for the duke Henry Julius of Bruns- 
 wick and probably sent to Denmark as a gift on account of his marri- 
 age with Elisabeth, sister of Christian IV. — Two guns inlaid with 
 ivory and adorned with the Danish escutcheon and the year 1596; they 
 have probably been presented to Christian IV on occasion of his corona- 
 tion by count Hieronymus Schlick, lord of Passow and Weiskirchen, 
 as they also wear his name. — A partly similar gun with the year 
 1632. — The admiral' s-sword of Christian IV with a scabbard covered 
 with velvet, in which several instruments, with the year 161 7. — A 
 sword, which the king is said to have worn in the battle of Lutter am 
 Barenberg, and a mourning- sword, which he wore at the funeral of his 
 son prince Christian 1647. — A sword, which is said to have belonged 
 to Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden; made at Solingen by Johann 
 Tesche Wiersberg. ^- Two other swords, the one of which, made by 
 Juan Martinez of Toledo, belonged to the son of Christian IV, count 
 Valdemar Christian. — (A richly enamelled sword set wkh diamonds, 
 used by Christian IV, when he conferred knighthood, was formerly 
 preserved here, but it is now kept among the regalia.) — A cane walk- 
 ing stick with a silver button screwed on it, containing a carpenter's 
 
Christian IV in his coronation dress. 
 
24 
 
 The audience-chamber of Christian IV. 
 
 rule and several instruments, a compass and a sundial; belonged to his 
 grandson Christian V when crownprince. 
 
 Some pieces of the suit, which Christian IV wore onboard the 
 line-of-battle ship i The Trinity « in the naval battle ofFehmern July ist 
 1644, when he was wounded; the cap with the year 1642, the velvet 
 
 The cap of Christian IV worn during the battle of 1644. 
 
 The bits of metal, by which Christian IV was wounded 1644. 
 
 jerkin, the collar, the wristband and the shirt, as also his handkerchief 
 with his cipher and the year 1644 and his pillow are stained with his 
 blood. Two small interesting relics from that battle have lately been 
 found and placed here; they consist of two small gold enamelled hands 
 holding each a bit of metal (iron and bronze), viz: a piece of the Swe- 
 dish iron cannon-ball and a piece of the Danish bronze-cannon, by which 
 
The study of Christian IV. 25 
 
 Christian IV was wounded on the forehead and eye; they have been 
 worn as ear-pendants by one of his daughters in memory of the battle. 
 The coronation dress of Christian IV and his mantle of the Order 
 of the Garter. 
 
 The study of Christian IV or the lackered 
 apartment of the queen. 
 
 The walls of this room are of oak; in the panels is still the original decoration, 
 Japanese, or, as they are called In the inventories, Indian figures and ships painted on 
 green ground; perhaps, like the Chinese figures of porcelain which have been placed over 
 the doors to the audience-chamber and the darkroom at a more remote time, they are keep- 
 sakes from the voyage of the admiral Ove Gjedde to the East-Indies ; the red colour, re- 
 sembling tortoise-shell, between the panels probably dates from a later time. The richly 
 decorated plaster ceiling with the cipher of Christian IV and the Danish escutcheon, seems 
 to have been made in the year 1636, but the three pictures in the centre of the ceiling, 
 which contain mythological representations, no doubt belong to a later period. The floor 
 is paved with marble slabs. The beautiful chimney-piece of sandstone has been restored 
 in our days by painting and gilding. 
 
 In the windows: Christian IV on horseback in complete armour, 
 sketch of a larger picture by Charles van Mandern. — An ivory relief, 
 representing Apollo and Marsyas; after an engraving by Melchior Meier 
 from a drawing by the Florentine artist Francesco Rossi, also called 
 Cecchino de Salviati (15 10 — 1563); made in the year 1624. — Portrait 
 of the learned nobleman Holger Rosenkrands, painted 1607. — A small 
 cut-glass mirror in a gilt frame; is supposed to have belonged to the 
 morganatic consort of Christian IV, Kirsten Munk. — A box bound 
 with iron, containing a little hand printing press and a stamp with the 
 signature of Christian IV, used by the king, when on account of much 
 business he had not time to write his name. 
 
 Over the doors to the atidience-chamber and the dark room: Eight 
 Chinese figures in porcelain. 
 
 On the walls: A picture, representing Christian IV on horseback, 
 communicating with an engineer; in the background, Rosenborg castle. 
 — A toilet-mirror in a frame of ebony adorned with the portraits of 
 ChristianlV and queen Anne Catherine, FIDES, SPES andCHARI- 
 TAS and the cipher of the queen in embossed silver. — A calendar, 
 painted on wood by Petrus Fischer 1591, with two doors. — Portrait 
 of Christian IV, painted in his 33d year by James van Doort. — Portrait 
 of Christian IV in his later days; copy after Charles van Mandern. — 
 
26 
 
 The study of Christian IV. 
 
 Portrait of Christian IV made by an embroiderer in pearls, Claes Harder, 
 at the time ofPVederik III. — Portraits of the king elect, prince Christian 
 and his consort Magdalen Sibylla. — A large silver goblet, partly gilt. 
 
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 made 1584 for the duke Julius of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel, father-in la w 
 of Elisabeth, sister of Christian IV. — A gilt metal plate with an 
 allegorical representation of the alliance between Denmark and Saxony; 
 made by David Conrad. — A gilt metal plate with a portrait of the 
 sister of Christian IV, the electress Hedvig of Saxony; made by David 
 
Portrait of Christian IV by Charles van Mandern. 
 
28 The study of Christian IV. 
 
 Conrad; around the portrait: AWEGGEWWSNS W o: Alles wie es 
 Gott gefallt, Er wird wohl schaffen nach seinem Willen, all as God 
 wills, He will certainly do as it is His good pleasure. — A two-handed 
 sword with the name of Christian IV on the blade. 
 
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 'ft' id ji^c 
 
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 Christian IV tilting at the ring. 
 
 In four glass-cabinets : Various garments worn by Frederik III. — 
 A set of trappings for a horse, of black velvet adorned with an innu- 
 merable quantity of real pearls and precious stones, and richly embroi-- 
 dered with gold, used at the wedding of priace Christian 1634; on the 
 stirrups the cipher of Christian IV ; perhaps a work by the embroiderer 
 in pearls Gert Osserin. 
 
A silver fountain. 
 
Cabinet of the 17th century. 
 
1 ne stuay of Christian IV. 3 I 
 
 Ftirnihire: The writing table of Christian IV with chair to match, 
 covered with green velvet; on the table, under glass, the writing calen- 
 dar of the king from the year 1616 and a letter written in his own 
 hand at Rosenborg March 24th 1633; in this letter the king speaks only 
 of the castle and garden of Rosenborg. 
 
 A silver fountain, supposed to have belonged to queen Anne 
 Catherine; the principal part of it consists of three octogonal Corinthian 
 pillars carrying a cupola, under which Actaeon is seen surprising Diana and 
 her nymphs in the bath; on the incense-reservoir over the cupola Ac- 
 taion with a stag's head; the whole, which is of embossed silver, rests 
 upon a base of ebony, adorned with silver ornaments and containing 
 several toilet drawers, and is placed upon a pedestal of ebony, tastefully 
 adorned with various silver ornaments. This magnificent piece was 
 made at Halle. — A square table of ebony, inlaid with silver and 
 mother of pearl, resting upon a cross-barred foot; is supposed to have 
 belonged to queen Anne Catherine. — A cabinet of ebony inlaid with 
 ivory and tortoise shell, resting upon a cross-barred foot; inside on the 
 doors and on the outside of the drawers biblical pictures on copper. 
 — A table with a marble slab; upon this table a large drinking cup 
 of gilt silver, made at Brunswick, representing Christian IV on horseback 
 as tilting at the ring. The head of the horse, adorned with the Da- 
 nish escutcheon and the royal cipher, forms the lid, the forefeet the 
 handle, the body of the horse the goblet; under the horse is repre- 
 sented the fool. The ring is suspended between to pillars, upon which 
 several arms and names of princes and noblemen are engraved. Made 
 in memory of the tournament at the coronation of Christian IV in 1596. 
 
 From the time of Frederik III (1648—1670). 
 
 Frederili III, son of Christian IV and queen Anne Catherine, was born 1609. As 
 his elder brother, prince Christian, was elected successor to the throne, his father 
 attempted to procure for him possessions outside of Denmark, so in 1623 he became 
 bishop in the diocese of Verden and in 1634 archbishop of Bremen. The successor 
 10 the throne, prince Christian, died 1647, and after an interregnum of some months after 
 the death of his father, Frederik was elected king. After an unhappy war with Swe- 
 den, in which Denmark lost the provinces east of the Sound, a reformation of the con- 
 stitution took place 1660, when Frederik III, who had ascended the throne as elected 
 king, got hereditary right to the kingdom and became absolute king. He died 1670. In 
 the year 1643 he had married Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-Luneburg who survived him 
 till 1685. 
 
32 The dark room. 
 
 Their Majesties' bedroom or the dark room 
 
 is situated behind the large tower and receives its light only through two narrow windows, 
 behind one of which there is a winding staircase in the tower, behind the other a little 
 cabinet, to which the entrance is by a door in the study of Christian IV; the little 
 cabinet is, like the window in the staircase, covered with delf. The dark room, . 
 which was used as a bedroom, has a. beautiful white ceiling in stucco, the walls are co- 
 vered with red damask and white moire, the floor paved with marble slabs ; the chimney 
 is of white marble. 
 
 Portraits and busts: Two large busts in wax of Frederik III and 
 queen Sophia Amelia, both of them in glass-cabinets. — Bust in plaster 
 of Frederik III. — Gilt busts of the marshal Korbitz and the equerry 
 Merlau. 
 
 Portraits of Otto Krag and his wife Anne Rosenkrands on one 
 canvas. — Portrait of the artist George the Painter, made by himself. 
 — Portrait of the artist James the Dutchman, painted by John Meerholdt-, 
 he is represented with one of his works, a carved goblet of ivory, in 
 his hand; this goblet is to be seen in the marble room. 
 
 Over the door to the tower room: The cipher of Frederik III car- 
 ved in sandstone and gilt; found in the cellar of the castle. 
 
 Before the chimney: A round calendar with globe, made 165 1 for 
 bishop John of Liibeck. 
 
 In a glass-cabinet : Some of the suits of Frederik III. 
 
 Furniture: A cabinet of ebony inlaid with ivory, supported by a 
 cross-barred foot. — A cabinet of tortoise-shell with gilt ornaments 
 
 of metal and resting upon six turned legs. — Four mirrors. Two 
 
 two-branched brackets. — Two tables with slabs of mosaic in pla- 
 ster wearing the cipher and the arms of queen Sophia Amelia. — 
 A large clock made by Nicolaus Radeloff of Sleswick. — A curious 
 armchair covered with velvet, which formerly could seize the person, 
 who sat down on it, by means of two folding arms, while at the same 
 time a trumpet on its backside sounded. 
 
 The garden room. 
 
 The walls of this room, which is situated in the large tower turning towards the 
 drillground, are covered with watered, green, red and white striped moire ; in the ceiling, 
 adorned with beautiful white workmanship in stucco, is a picture painted by Benedict 
 Coffre and representing a bacchanal; the floor is of oak inlaid with nutwood and the 
 chimney of greenish marble; in front of this, marble slabs. A door leads into a stair- 
 case outside. 
 
Frederik III. 
 
The garden room. 3S 
 
 Portraits and pictures: Several portraits ofFrederik III, his queen 
 Sophia Amelia and some of their children, the last count of Oldenburg 
 Anthon Giinther and his consort Sophia Catherine, king Charles I of Eng- 
 land. Furthermore portraits of different private persons, especially of 
 those who acted a part in the war with Sweden or at the introduction 
 of absolutism: colonel Ole Stenvinkel, painted by himself, bishop Henry 
 Gerner, Jens Pedersen Koefoed of the island of Bornholm, count 
 Christian Rantzau, Frederik Thuresen, chief of the civic guard of Copen- 
 hagen, the commandant Hans Schack, painted by Charles van Mandern, 
 Hannibal Sehested, son-in-law of Christian IV, painted by Charles, van 
 Mandern, admiral Henry Bjelke, archbishop Hans Svane, painted by 
 Charles van Mandern, the mayor Hans Nansen, the clerk of Frederik III, 
 Christopher Gabel, the chancellor Peter Reedtz and the statesman Peter 
 Schumacher (afterwards count Griffenfeldt). Finally a portrait of a cler- 
 gyman of Jorck in the diocese of Bremen, painted by Frederik III when 
 archbishop. 
 
 A picture, representing the attack of the Swedes on Copenhagen 
 1659. — A picture painted 1666 by Heimbach, representing the homage 
 in front of the Exchange in Copenhagen 1660. — A picture representing the 
 procession after the homage. — The renowned horse »Cranich<, which 
 belonged to count Anthon Giinther of Oldenburg and which had a very 
 long mane and tail. 
 
 In the chimney: The arms of Frederik III as archbishop of Bre- 
 men, mosaic of marble. 
 
 In the window: A group of ivory, representing Mars, Venus and 
 Cupid. 
 
 Furniture: A table with richly carved gilt legs wearing the cipher 
 and motto of queen Sophia Amelia. — Two candle-stands of similar 
 workmanship; on the slab the escutcheons of Denmark and Liineburg. 
 — An iron-safe wearing the ciphers of Frederik III and queen Sophia 
 Amelia. 
 
 In three smaller glass-cabinets on the walls: The last suit worn by 
 Frederik III February 6th 1670, three days before he died. — A mantle 
 worn by him at the baptism of his granddaughter. — A walking stick, 
 the handle of which is of alchemistical gold. — The silver baton ofFre- 
 derik III. — A mourning sword, worn by Frederik III at the funeral of 
 Christian IV; made 1648 at Broby in Funen. — Several swords, guns 
 and pistols. 
 
 In a large glass-cabinet: A jewel-case of gilt silver, with ornaments 
 
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36 
 
 The garden room. 
 
 and decorations in embossed workmanship and adorned with several 
 crystals and garnets and about 2000 small diamonds; in the bottom a 
 relief representing the judgment of Paris. This magnificent piece, which 
 is supposed to have been presented to queen Sophia Amelia by her daugh- 
 ter-in-law, afterwards queen Anne of England, was formerly preserved in 
 Christiansborg palace and was stolen during the conflagration of that castle 
 
 A table of the time of queen Sophia Amelia. 
 
 in 1794, but the thief was detected in due time. — Several jewel-cases. — 
 A set of chessmen of stone, the kings and queens of which are supposed 
 to represent Frederik III and the Swedish king Charles X and their 
 consorts, as also the other figures, the pieces and the pawns, represent 
 Danes and Swedes. — A precious and magnificent crystal goblet; the 
 cup, upon which eight male and female portraits of extremely beautiful 
 workmanship are carved in relief and upon the edge of which a win- 
 ged genius stands, is supported by an un-winged figure. On one side 
 
The garden room. 
 
 37 
 
 of the base the escutcheon of Hesse, on the other the motto of 
 Landgrave Charles of Hesse, brother of queen Charlotte Amelia. — 
 The history of the passion of Christ, symbolically represented in gold 
 and enamel; this extraordinary beautiful piece is adorned with several 
 diamonds and rubies and with a very large and magnificent aquamarine 
 of great value. — A glass-goblet, upon which Frederik III on horse- 
 back, the descent on Amager October loth 1658, the naval battle in 
 the Sound October 29th 1658 and the battle ofNyborg November 14th 
 1659. — An elephant in wax crushing an ibex with his trunk, while 
 a person on the other side is tumbling 
 down headlong: a satirical allusion to 
 the defeat of the Swedish generals 
 Stenbock (whose name translated into 
 English signifies ibex) and the prince 
 of Sulzbach at Nyborg. — A small, round 
 silver box used by Frederik III as a 
 pocket-box for beard-pomatum. — An 
 ivory box turned by Frederik III. 
 
 On the door to the garden: Several 
 silver goblets and tankards partly ador- 
 ned with coins. — A large silver gob- 
 let, which Frederik III, when archbishop 
 of Bremen, ordered to be made from 
 the money, which he had won in the 
 tournament at Oldenburg at the wedding 
 of count Anthon Giinther 1635. — A 
 small silver statue of Frederik III on 
 horseback as tilting at the ring; the 
 base, on which the horse stands, con- 
 tains a watch-work for moving the figure. 
 — A silver gilt goblet, of the kind 
 which Frederik III presented to the mem- 
 bers of the deputation from Bornholm, who after the expulsion of the 
 Swedes were sent to Copenhagen in order to restore the possession of 
 that island to the Danish king. — Several tankards and goblets of 
 ivory and narvvhale-horn with representations of Greenlanders, unicorns 
 and walrusses. ■ — Two goblets of rhinoceros-horn. 
 
 In the glass-case upon the table: A large enamelled portrait of 
 Frederik III, made 1663 by Prieur. — Various smaller portraits of Fre- 
 derik III, amongst which one made 1656 and fifteen others enamelled by 
 Prieur in 1666, 1668 and 1669. — Frederik III, portrait of mother of pearl,. 
 
 A candle-stand. 
 
38 
 
 The garden room. 
 
 inlaid in slate. — Prederik III, full-length portrait, of mother of pearl, 
 inlaid in slate. — Various smaller portraits of queen Sophia Amelia, 
 partly corresponding to those of Frederik III, amongst which one of the 
 year 1656 and a full-length portrait of mother of pearl, inlaid in slate. — 
 The five eldest children of Frederik III, enamelled by Prieur 167 1. — 
 Miniature portraits ot prince Christian and the princesses Anne Sophia, 
 Frederike Amelia and Vilhelmine Ernestine, to match those of the 
 king and the queen of the year 1656. 
 
 Furthermore miniature portraits of queen Christina of Sweden, 
 Charles X and queen Hedvig PZleonora of Sweden, Charles I of England 
 (in a gold frame with an enamelled death's head on the backside of the 
 
 
 
 
 
 A jewel-case. 
 
 capsule), Charles II of England, of 1660 and 1669, (the latter one'enam- 
 elled by Prieur) and his mistress Mrs. Castlemain, of 1669 (enamel- 
 led by Prieur), bishop von Gahler of Miinster. — Various ornaments of 
 real pearls and several enamelled interlaced ciphers. — A prize of 
 tournament, adorned with numerous diamonds, consisting of a medallion, 
 surrounded with a green enamelled wreath, in which a knight is standing 
 at a trophy; underneath: A Luy Esgal; on the backside the cipher of 
 queen Sophia Amelia; exposed by the queen at the wedding of her 
 daughter Ulrica Eleonora 1680. — A gold witch with a representation 
 of a stag hunt on the frontside and a lion hunt on the backside 
 of the case, in embossed workmanship in relief — A triangular gold 
 
A crystal goblet. 
 
40 The marble room. 
 
 signet; on one of the sides the cipher of queen Sophia Amelia, on the 
 other a scale, in which Cupid is weighed against a heart; a finely made 
 crown forms the handle. — Thirteen gold goblets, one inside the 
 other, with one lid; on the outmost the cipher ofFrederik III, the three 
 Danish lions, the Norwegian lion, the three crowns, and the year 1669. 
 
 — Two gold spoons and a gold fork with the cipher of Frederik III. 
 
 — A gold fork and a gold knife-handle with the cipher of queen 
 Sophia Amelia. — An eye-glass mounted in gold in the shape of a 
 pince-nez, with a gold case. — A small piece of alchemistical gold, 
 which is told to have been produced by king Frederik III himself. 
 
 The marble room. 
 
 This room is remarkable for its extremely magnificent ceiling in stucco; upon this 
 numerous genii and female figures are placed among luxurious rococo-ornaments; in 
 shields in the shape of hearts the provincial arms, and in the centre two pictures, repre- 
 senting the insignia of the crown carried by genii. The ceiling is supported by i8 Co- 
 rinthian pilasters; they are of marble stucco, like the walls, upon which some of the 
 provincial arms are painted. The floor is paved with larger and smaller slabs of marble. 
 On the inside of the doors the ciphers of Christian V aAd queen Charlotte Amelia. 
 
 Furniture: A table of Florentine mosaic with the cipher and motto 
 of Frederik III. — A table of plaster-mosaic, resting upon a base, also 
 with plaster mosaic. — A cabinet of ebony with doors, adorned on the 
 drawers with tortoise-shell; in the niche two dancing figures; re.sts upon 
 a cross-barred foot; upon this cabinet three boxes of ivory, the one of 
 which is covered with embroidery. — A similar cabinet with the ciphers 
 of Frederik III and the queen on the inner side of the doors, the 
 drawers adorned with dendrite marble; rests upon a cross-barred foot; 
 upon this cabinet a crucifix of ivory (the cross of ebony), and a smal- 
 ler cabinet with dendrite marble. — A cabinet with Florentine mosaic 
 on the drawers, resting upon a cross-barred foot. — A cabinet of tor- 
 toise-shell, adorned with silver ornaments, resting upon a cross-barred foot ; 
 belongs to the kind of furniture, which was invented by the joiner Boule. 
 — A smaller cabinet of ebony with doors, inside covered with Florentine 
 mosaic ; upon this cabinet a nautilus-shell with representations of the 
 siege of Copenhagen and the battle in the Sound 1658. — A similar 
 cabinet upon a table supported by four turned legs; upon the ca- 
 binet a small equestrian statue in iron of the emperor Leopold I, 
 made in the years 1659 — 1660 by Gottfried Leigebe (born 1630, died 
 
42 
 
 The marble room. 
 
 1683)5 under the base a paper with a notice written in the artist's 
 own hand about his work. — A cabinet of ivory with Florentine 
 mosaic. — Six embroidered chairs. (Some of the objects seen upon 
 the wood-cut of the room, have afterwards been brought to other 
 rooms).' 
 
 In two glass -cabinets, upon which six lackered wooden vases: 
 Some of the suits of Frederik III and the riding jacket of queen 
 Sophia Amelia with her hunting-knife. — The fowling piece of queen 
 Sophia Amelia. — A walking stick of narwhale-horn, the handle and 
 the ferrule enamelled and, adorned with rubies. — ■ A cane, at the 
 handle of which the title and motto of Frederik III and the following' 
 inscription: »Chacun k son Tour i66o« (Allusion to the changemerit of 
 the constitution in that year). — A so called James- staff and rhyme- 
 stick of silver, of the year 1663. — Some swords (the one of which 
 made by Peter Munich of Solingen). 
 
 In a corner of the room next to one of these cabinets: Three nar- 
 whale-horns. 
 
 Works in ivory (partly in a glass-press, partly upon the cabi- 
 nets, on the walls and in the windows): Four goblets, .one with a 
 representation of a Bacchic procession, on another the abduction of the 
 Sabinian women, on a third an intoxicated Silen and on a fourth playing 
 children — A goblet with the abduction of Proserpine. — A goblet 
 with a bacchanal made by James the Dutchman and represented on his 
 portrait in the dark room. — Three drinking horns made of elephants' 
 tusks. — Several cups and boxes. — Six silver gilt centrepieces; in 
 the bowl of one of these is a representation of the judgment of king So- 
 lomon, in another the visit of the queen of Sheba to king Solomon. — Mi- 
 niature busts of Frederik III, queen Sophia Amelia, Christian V, queen 
 Christina of Sweden (in the figure of Pallas). — Portraits in relief of Fre- 
 derik ill (two copies), queen Sophia Amelia and James II of England. — 
 Reliefs representing: the resuscitation of Lazarus; the crucifixion of Christ 
 and the descent of Christ from the cross; the latter, which on the 
 backside wears the cipher of queen Sophia Amelia, is a copy from 
 a larger relief by Michel Angelo. — Reliefs representing: a Calabrese 
 in a challenging attitude ; a female bust; Marsyas; the Golden Age ; Venus 
 and Adonis; Venus, having alighted from her swan-chariot, meets Ado- 
 nis; Diana and Actseon; Mercury lulling Argus to sleep; Cleopc^tra killing 
 herself by means of the serpent; Diana discovering the pregnancy of Cal ■ 
 listo; the three Graces; Cupid wounded by a bee; the three Graces sur- 
 rounded by Cupids ; Vulcan forging arrow-heads for Cupid ; Venus on the 
 
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 Christian V. 
 
44 The marble room. 
 
 mountain of Ida, having the head of Anchises in her lap ; a repast in 
 the hall of the gods. — A model of the frigate »the Norwegian Lion«, 
 made 1654 by the armourer James Jensen the Norwegian, and six smal- 
 ler ships made by the same artist. Among the ivory carvings a relief 
 in wax representing Frederik III in his audience- chamber; before him 
 a sculptor is kneeling, offering the king his bust; in the background 
 the Muses; another relief in red wax represents Venus and Adonis. 
 
 From the time of Christian V (1670 — 1699). 
 
 Christian V, son of Frederik III and queen Sophia Amelia, was born 1646; in the 
 Diet assembled at Copenhagen 1650 he was elected successor to the throne and after- 
 wards he received the homage in Denmark and Norway, but as his father had got the 
 hereditary right to the kingdom in 1660, he ascended the throne on the death of his father 
 1670 as the first hereditary king. In order to throw more splendour over the absolute 
 kingdom, in 1 671 he instituted a higher nobility (coimts and barons) and in the same year 
 the Order of the Danebrog, while he afterwards renewed the older Order of the Ele- 
 phant. In 1675 hoping to reconquer Scania, he commenced a war with Sweden; the differ- 
 ent episodes of this war, especially the great naval victories of the renowned Danish 
 admiral Niels Juel, are represented in the tapestry in the knights' hall at Rosenborg castle; 
 the war ended 1679 without result. Christian V, who died 1699, had while crownpiince 
 in 1667 married the princess Charlotte Amelia of Hesse; she survived him for 15 years 
 till 1714. 
 
 The king's apartment or the council-chamber. 
 
 The walls of this room are covered with beautiful red hautelisse-tapestry made 
 by M. WAVTERS; the ceiling is decorated with a picture representing an orchestra, 
 around which many dancing genii. The chimney is of marble with two detached co- 
 lumns; above the mantel-piece the portrait of Christian V, painted by d'Agar, in a 
 marble frame. The floor is paved with white marble slabs. In the window towards the 
 garden abuts the speaking-tube from the audience-chamber of Christian IV. 
 
 Portraits: Christian V as a boy with his playthings, three small 
 cannons, before him. The original cannons are placed below the picture. 
 
 — Christian V, half-length, painted by d'Agar. — The same, half-lehgth, 
 sewn in silk, in a frame of gold-thread, made by Leonora Christine Ulfeldt. 
 
 — The same, half-length, composed of very small letters. — Two portraits 
 of the same, half-length in profile. — The same, in profile, half-length, car- 
 ved in box, between two pyramids with trophies, supported by elephants. 
 
 — The same, in profile, carved in amber. — Medallion in ivory with 
 Christian V on horseback riding down Lie and Envy. — Unfinished 
 picture of Christian V, his half-brother Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove 
 and the count of Altenburg. — Queen Charlotte Amelia with her little 
 
46 
 
 The king's apartment or the council-chamber. 
 
 daughter Sophia Hedvig by her side, half-length, painted by d'Agar. — 
 Half-length portrait of queen Charlotte Anaelia. — The brother of Christian 
 V, prince George, married with queen Anne of England, in the dress of 
 the Order of the Garter; medallion in marble. — Two enamelled minia- 
 tures in relief of the duchess Frederike Amelia and a corresponding 
 one of her husband, the duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp. 
 
 
 A table of the time of Christian V. 
 
 — Sophia Amelia Moth, daugther of the royal physician, ennobled as 
 countess of Samso; a half-length portrait. — Miniature of her son Christian 
 Gyldenl0ve. — Medallions in ivory with portraits of Christian V, queen 
 Charlotte Amelia, their children Frederik, Christian, Charles and Sophia 
 Hedvig, prince George and his consort queen Anne of England and 
 their son duke William of Gloucester (the relief was made 169 1), Charles 
 
A hunting goblet. 
 
4" The king's apartment or the council-chamber. 
 
 XI of Sweden and his consort queen Ulrica Eleonora, the renowned 
 Danish statesman count Griffenfeldt, the philologer and chemist Ole 
 Borch, the French painter Jacob d'Agar. 
 
 Furniture: A square table with a slab of Florentine mosaic. — 
 A table with a slab of black marble inlaid with white foliage; on the 
 gilt wooden foot the cipher of Frederik III. — A table with a slab of 
 white marble in which the two hemispheres. — A table with a slab of 
 marble ; on the gilt wooden support the escutcheons of Denmark and 
 Hesse. — A table with a slab of plaster mosaic. — A blue lacke- 
 red table with silver filigree-work in which the cipher of queen Char- 
 lotte Amelia, a mirror and two candle-stands to match. — A table of 
 black wood inlaid with coloured bone and wood, a mirror, two candle- 
 stands and a large cabinet of similar workmanship; the cabinet is fur- 
 nished with folding doors and adorned inside with mirror-glass; it rests 
 upon a cross-barred foot and is inscribed with the year 1679. In this 
 cabinet are deposited: a bust of Christian V in red wax, made by the 
 counsellor of chancery Hans Arenfeld, two miniature equestrian statuet- 
 tes and a silver miniature bust of the same king, the latter of the 
 year 1697; furthermore three figures in ivory and a group carved in 
 wood; upon the cabinet are placed several objects. — Two large mir- 
 rors in gilt frames, the one of which with the cipher of Christian V, 
 the other with that of the queen. — A marble wine cooler. — A virgi- 
 nal or spinet of bell-metal. 
 
 Upon various of the mentioned tables: Three large silver centre- 
 pieces, the one of which with a terrestrial globe, the two others with 
 celestial globes. — A magnificent silver tankard with figures in relief — 
 A wooden tankard mounted in silver with carved scenes of domestic 
 life. — The political testaments of Christian V, written in the king's 
 own hand. — • Two drinking goblets of antlers of stags and a large 
 horn of a stag, in which a silver gilt goblet. — An artificial calendar with 
 the cipher of Christian V. 
 
 Before the fire-place- Two silver plate-warmers with the ciphers 
 of Christian V and of the queen and a silver fire-screen of the 
 year 1723. 
 
 On the walls and by the windows furthermore: A brass artillery- 
 instrument. — A representation of a hunting with hounds, in papier 
 mache. — A small anchor which saved the life of Christian V in a 
 storm in the Baltic off Bornholm 1677; it was formerly suspended in 
 the » Cabinet of Art « by an artificial magnet in order to show the invisible 
 power, that held it. — A prospect of Copenhagen, water-colour drawing 
 
The king's apartment or the council-chamber. 49 
 
 by Wilckenn Riboldt. — Two antlers, one of which, over the door 
 to the stone corridor, is that of a stag, which wounded Christian V 
 when he was hunting in Jaegersborg deer-park October 19th i6g8. — 
 Medallion in ivory with a representation of the naval battle in Kjoge 
 bay July ist 1677. — Several reliefs in ivory, amongst which the birth 
 and entombment of Christ, furthermore four small boys playing with a 
 goat, Bacchus and Pomona visiting Venus, the judgment of Paris. 
 
 In a large glass-cabinet: Various suits of Christian V, amongst 
 which his coronation dress adorned with gold borders, a red gold-embroi- 
 dered coat with star, used at tournaments, a crimson velvet habit of 
 order with star and two leather buff-jackets, the one of which is suppo- 
 sed to have been worn by the king during the battle of Lund 1676. — A 
 black plumage of heron feathers set in gold with diamonds, supposed 
 to have belonged to a natural daughter of Christian IV, and afterwards 
 to count Ulfeldt. — Several swords; the hilt of the one of these is 
 formed by an Atlas supporting the celestial globe (the blade was made 
 by Johannes Tesche of Solingen), the hilt of another is formed by 
 a sitting lion (wolf's blade with ANNO 1414, probably from So- 
 lingen); the hilt of a third is formed by a serpent covered with dia- 
 monds, holding a red heart in its mouth; the pommel of a fourth con- 
 sists of a dragon's head (the blade was made by Peter Munich of Solin- 
 gen); the two last-mentioned swords, a brace of gilt enamelled spurs 
 and a girth, with enamelled serpents and mountings covered with dia- 
 monds, belonged to the son of Christian IV, the king-elect prince Chri- 
 stian; a gold sword of order, enamelled and covered with diamonds; a 
 silver sword used by Christian V when crownprince (the blade from To- 
 ledo) ; a sword used by Christian V at a tournament at Gottorp ; a sword 
 used by Christian V in Scania (the blade from Toledo with the name of 
 Thomas de Ayala). — A baton, the pommel of which is of gold co- 
 vered with diamonds. — ■ A gun used by Christian,V when crownprince, 
 and another one which be used during the siege of Wismar. 
 
 In a smaller glass-cabinet: Various goblets, vases, cups, mugs 
 and boxes of ivory; we notice especially a goblet, upon which a pea- 
 sant's wedding is carved in relief. — A goblet of wood, in which a 
 silver gilt drinking cup; made in 1690 by Magnus Berg. — Various ob- 
 jects of coral, amongst which St. George slaying the Dragon, the sacri- 
 fice of Isaac, the boat of Charon, a fisherman, a faun, Romulus and 
 Remus sucking the wolf, Andromeda. 
 
 In a glass-corner-cabinet: Various guns and pistols which be- 
 longed to Christian V, amongst these two smaller guns, which he used 
 
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50 
 
 The king's apartment or the council-chamber. 
 
 during the Swedish war; in the battle of Lund the one of them was lost, 
 but a new one was afterwards made by Henrik Kappel; furthermore 
 two guns with inscriptions telling about the king's journey in Norway 
 in 1685. — Some objects belonging to falconry, amongst which two 
 falcon-hoods. 
 
 A falcon-hood. 
 
 The king's cabinet. 
 
 The walls are tapestried with yellowish green figured Chinese plush upon a gold 
 ground, the wooden ceiling is painted and gilt and furnished with pendants, the floor is 
 of wood. The original decoration of the room was destroyed at the beginning of 
 this century as there was built a staircase in the tower, in which it is situated, to the 
 knights' hall; this staircase has afterwards been taken away and the room was then de- 
 corated as above said. 
 
The king's cabinet. 
 
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 Portraits and pictures: Two half-length portraits of Christian V. — 
 Chi-istian V with his sons Frederik, Christian and Charles, painted by 
 d'Agar. — An allegorical representation of Christian V sitting upon the 
 throne. — Picture representing the anointment of Christian V in the 
 chapel of the palace of Frederiksborg. — Picture representing Christian 
 V as presiding over the supreme court. — Picture on fluted ground, 
 
 The Wismar cup. 
 
 representing from the one side the son of Christian V, crownprince Fre- 
 derik, from the other the daughter of the king, princess Sophia Hed- 
 vig; painted in 1692 by Bois-Clair. — Portrait of Vilhelmine Ernestine, 
 electress of the Palatinate. — Portrait in relief of the brother-in-law of 
 Christian V, landgrave Charles of Hesse; the portrait is composed of cry- 
 
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5 2 The king's cabinet. 
 
 stal, onyx, agate, cornelian, chalcedony, jasper and several other stones 
 upon a ground of agate. . — Portrait of count Grififenfddt, half-length. 
 
 Sonne smaller pictures painted by the princess Sophia Hedvig, in 
 frames, partly of embossed silver, partly of silver filigree work, and a 
 small gouache painting upon parchment, made by Christian V in 1673. 
 
 A picture with a representation of the royal crowns and the coro- 
 nets of nobility. 
 
 FurnitiM'e: A lackered cabinet with plates of mosaic on the front 
 of the drawers. — Two square tables, upon one of which stands a 
 drinking horn with silver mounting, presented by Griffenfeldt in the year 
 1673 or 1674 to the townhall of Copenhagen; upon the other a china 
 bowl mounted in silver, wearing the cipher of queen Charlotte Amelia. — 
 An octogonal card-table, upon the top of which is embroidered a set 
 of I'hombre cards. — A lackered tea-table. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A glass- chandelier with twelve branches. 
 
 In one of the windows: Three candle-sticks of bronze, each with 
 six branches decorated with ornaments of glass. 
 
 /// a glass-cabinet : An enamelled goblet of gold adorned with 
 cameos, supported by a negro riding on a crocodile. — Two oval 
 tureens of gold, enamelled and covered with cameos. — A gold tankard 
 with figures in relief. — An enamelled chalice with symbolical repre- 
 sentations of the Sermon on the Mount. — The silver gilt chalices of 
 Christian V (from the castle of Koldinghus in Jutland) and of queen 
 Charlotte Amelia (from the Calvinistic church of Copenhagen). — A 
 drinking cup of rock-crystal in the shape of a flying fish, mounted in 
 gold, presented to Christian V at the conquest of Wismar in 1675. — 
 Various goblets and bowls of rock-crystal. — A small scent-bottle of 
 rock-crystal on which are portraits of the brother of Christian V, prince 
 George and his consort, queen Anne of England. — Various drinking 
 cups, bowls, goblets and mugs of glass, jade, onyx, serpentine, helio- 
 trope, agate and jasper-agate. — A case of lithoxylon. 
 
 Upon the glass-cabinet : Various bottles, goblets, boxes and drink- 
 ing cups, partly wearing the ciphers and the arms of Christian V and 
 queen Charlotte AmeUa. 
 
 In a glass-case: Various miniatures of Christian V, amongst which 
 two enamelled in 1674 and 1681 by Prieur, a third one in 1693 by 
 Barbette; further portraits and miniatures of queen Charlotte Amelia, 
 her parents, landgrave William VI of Hesse and his consort Hedvig 
 Sophia, the sisters of Christian V: Anne Sophia, Frederike Amelia, Vil- 
 helmine Ernestine and Ulrica Eleonora, prince George and qtaeen Anne 
 of England (enamelled in 1704 and 1705 by C. Boit), the princess Sophia 
 
The king's cabinet. 
 
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 Hedvig (enamelled in 1693 by Barbette), bi- 
 shop Augustus P'rederik of Liibeck, Charles 
 XI and Charles XII of Sweden, king Mi- 
 chael Wicniovviecky of Poland (enamelled 
 in 1670 by Prieur), the elector Frederik 
 William the Great of Brandenburg, Lewis 
 XIV of France, the statesman Griffenfeldt 
 (two portraits enamelled in 1673 and 1675 
 by Prieur), the royal confessor Leth (en- 
 amelled in 1675 by Prieur)-, finally an excel- 
 lent portrait of an unknown person (en- 
 amelled in 1691 by Barbette). — -Portrait of 
 Christian IV, engraving; on the backside 
 
 the petition of the countess Ulfeldt to Christian V for liberty, written in 
 her own hand in 1685 (mentioned in her memoirs). — The Danish escut- 
 cheon, enamelled in 1694 by Barbette. — A seal for wax-impressions 
 of the escutcheon of Denmark, engraved on silver; on one side Chri- 
 stian V sitting on the throne, on the other the escutcheon. — Seve- 
 
 The royal confessor Leth. 
 
 The Order of the Garter of Christian V. 
 
 ral seals and rings and various objects of gold, enamelled and covered with 
 precious stones. — Four watches (made by George Cameel of Stras- 
 bourg, Nicolaus Rugendass of Augsburg, J. Thuret of Paris and John 
 Stamhart). — A hen's egg, mounted in silver filigree wearing the ciphers 
 
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 The king's cabinet. 
 
 of Christian V and queen Charlotte Amelia. — Two prizes, enamelled 
 and set with precious stones, won by Christian V in 1680 at the tourna- 
 ment on the occasion of the wedding of his sister Ulrica Eleonora with 
 'Charles XI of Sweden. — The ribbon of the Order of the Garter of 
 Christian V, and the badge of the order covered with diamonds. — 
 Two enamelled insignia of the Order of the Elephant, the one of them 
 with a hunting-whistle in the tower on the back of the elephant. — 
 Six oval enamelled medallions, representing: Ceres, Venus and Cupid 
 
 The Order of the Elephant of Christian V (among the regalia). 
 
 before the workshop of Vulcan, Religion, Prudence, Maternal Love and 
 Justice; the four latter are made in 1695 by, Barbette. 
 
 The winding-staircase to the second floor 
 
 contains various portraits of the 17th century, amongst which pictures 
 of the two naval heroes Curt Sivertsen Adeler and Niels Juel. 
 
56 »The Rose». 
 
 The second floor. 
 
 By a corridor, adorned with a bust in plaster and a medallion in marble of Fre- 
 derik III, between the winding-staircase and the second floor we first enter 
 
 The antechamber or the „Rose". 
 
 The walls are hung with tapestry of silk, which at a later time have been brought 
 from the attics; they are supposed to have been brought to Denmark from Italy byFre- 
 derik IV. In the ceiling four pictures have been put up at a later time; they repre- 
 sent Venus being adorned, while Cupid is sitting in her carriage, and the »Secrecy«, both 
 of them painted by Coifre, Juno and Fortune, and Fortune alone, both of these painted 
 by Krock. The floor is of oak inlaid. The windows are furnished with gold embroidered 
 curtains. The room contains especially objects 
 
 From the time of Frederik IV (1699 — 1730). 
 
 Frederik IV, son af Christian V and queen Charlotte Amelia, was born in 1671 and 
 on the death of his father he ascended the throne in 1699. He soon commenced a war 
 against the duke of Holstein-Gottorp, also called Frederik IV, but this warfare did not 
 last long; afterwards in 1709 lie commenced a war against Sweden and not, until 
 1720 the peace was concluded, this time advantageous to Denmark. The first consort 
 of Frederik IV, queen Louise of Mecklenburg, died in 1721 after a marriage of somewhat 
 more than 25 years, and a short time afterwards the morganatic wife of the king, 
 countess Anne Sophia Reventlow, was crowned queen. She survived 13 years after the 
 death of her husband in 1730. 
 
 Portraits, statues and busts: Half-length portraits of Christian V and 
 queen Charlotte Amelia in richly carved gilt frames. — Portraits of prince 
 George, queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden (consort of Charles XI), 
 painted by Ehrenstrahl, the brother of queen Charlotte Amelia, landgrave 
 Charles of Hesse, Frederik IV in his youth (painted by Rigaud) and 
 princess Sophia Hedvig. — Christian V, statuette in alabaster. — The 
 same, equestrian statuette in ivory. — Two busts in marble of Frederik 
 IV and queen Louise, made by Jost Wiedewelt. 
 
 furniture: A silver armchair and a silver table, presented to Fre- 
 derik IV on his birth-day October nth 1715 by Anne Sophia Reventlow 
 (afterwards his queen). — Three tables with marble tops and with 
 legs of richly carved gilt wood. — Eight high-backed chairs, beautifully 
 carved, covered with gold-leather on the seats. — Two large square 
 mirrors in richly carved gilt wooden frames. ■ — A cabinet with several 
 drawers covered with dendrite-marble. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A chandelier of steel and rock-crystal with 
 twelve branches, supposed to have been presented by Lewis XIV to 
 Christian V. 
 
FrederJk IV. 
 
The antechamber of the princess. gO 
 
 The mirror-room. 
 
 The walls and the ceiling are covered with mirrors; the floor is of wood, taste- 
 fully inlaid with coloured bone and wood; in the centre an 'oval of plate-glass sur- 
 rounded by an iron-railing. There are no objects in this room. 
 
 The corridor to the antechamber of the princess. 
 
 The walls are hung with gold -leather and the floor paved with slabs from 
 Gotland. 
 
 • Portraits: Frederik IV, queen Louise, the sisters of Charles XII 
 of Sweden: Hedvig Sophia, duchess of HolsteinGottorp, and Ulrica 
 Eleonora, queen of Sweden, Charles XII and Hedvig Sophia as chil- 
 dren, painted upon one canvas, the naval hero Peter Tordenskjold and 
 several other portraits. 
 
 In the window: A gilt bust in lead of the Czar Peter the Great 
 of Russia. 
 
 Furniture: Amongst this we notice especially an iron stove of 
 the year 1729 with an under and upper part of delf; upon the top a 
 vase wearing the double cipher of the crownprince Christian, afterwards 
 king Christian VI. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A glass chandelier, supposed to have been 
 brought from the castle of Hammershus in the island of Bornholm. 
 
 The antechamber of the princess. 
 
 The walls are hung with woven woolen tapestry, the wooden ceiling is divided 
 into panels and painted, the floor is of wood; before the fire-place slabs of marble. 
 
 Portraits, busts, pictures and, drawings: Frederik IV, queen Louise, 
 queen Anne Sophia Reventlow, the sister of the king, princess Sophia 
 Hedvig, several of her brothers, Charles XII of Sweden. 
 
 The Swedish general Magnus Stenbock, painted by himself and 
 presented to Frederik IV; in his hand he holds a paper upon which is 
 to be read in German: Lord, grant the liberty to your prisoner; in the 
 background the town ofT0nning, where Stenbock was made a prisoner. 
 
 The anointment and coronation of Frederik IV and queen Louise 
 in the chapel of Frederiksborg castle; water-colour-painting made by 
 Bendix Grotschilling the youngest. — The funeral of Frederik IV; 
 painting in water-colours, made by the major-general Michael Christoph 
 Schnitter. 
 
 An embroidered representation of Copenhagen of 1702, an oil-pain- 
 ting representing the conquest of Stade in 17 12 and a painting in water- 
 colours of the castle of Fredensborg of 1727, made by A. E. Willarst. 
 
The antechamber of the princess. 6l 
 
 Furniture: A magnificent cabinet resting upon a richly carved 
 gilt wooden under part; on the drawers biblical drawings^in water-cou- 
 lours •, on the top an equestrian statuette of gilt metal ; upon the cabinet 
 are placed two hour-glasses, each consisting of four glasses for i, 2, 3 
 and 4 quarters of an hour. — Some cabinets, decorated partly with 
 pictures, partly with Florentine mosaic; upon one of these cabinets are 
 placed two precious Chinese vases of porcelain in the Persian style wearing 
 the cipher of queen Louise in the mounting, and a goblet of ivory, 
 which is supposed to have been turned by the Czar Peter the Great. 
 — An extremely beautiful table of mosaic, presented to Frederik IV in 
 1 709 by the grandduke of Toscany ; it was related in the Danish news- 
 papers of that year, that four very skilful » stone- cutters* had been 
 working at this table for thirty years. — A table, a mirror and two candle- 
 stands of yellow wood with inlaid workmanship in the Chinese style. — 
 A tea-table of ebony inlaid with wood and ivory; upon this table stands 
 a lackered tea- tray with six cups and saucers of Chinese porcelain lined 
 with silver, and a jug of porcelain wearing the cipher of Frederik IV in 
 the silver mounting. — Various mirrors, chairs and time-pieces in the 
 shape of temples. 
 
 Before the fire-place: An enibroidered fire-screen with the cipher 
 of Frederik IV. — Two silver fire-dogs wearing the date of 1654, the 
 escutcheon of Hesse-Cassel and the name of the mother of Christian 
 V's queen Charlotte Amelia, the landgravine Hedvig Sophia of Hesse. 
 
 Under the ceiling : A chandelier of rock-crystal ^\ith twelve branches. 
 
 In the windows: A red lackered wooden vase with cover and a 
 large vase of delf, made at Copenhagen at the time of Frederik IV. 
 
 Upon the walls furthermore some stag's collars wearing inscriptions 
 of 1 7 14 and 1724 telling, that they have been worn by stags which, 
 after having been caught by Frederik IV and queen Anne Sophia Re- 
 ventlow, have been restored to liberty. 
 
 A magnificent and precious mandoline of tortoise-shell, richly and 
 tastefully inlaid with ivory and mother of pearl; on the backside the 
 cipher of princess Sophia Hedvig. 
 
 In a glass -cabinet: Several suits, guns, pistols, swords and 
 canes of Frederik IV. Furthermore a sword presented by Charles XII 
 to colonel Kruse, who having defended himself gallantly against the 
 superior Swedish force March 9th 1716 had been made a prisoner. 
 
 On the outside of the cabinet: A gun wearing the cipher of the 
 Prussian king Frederik I; made at Berlin. 
 
 In a cabinet in the Chinese style: A silver toilet-service wearing 
 the cipher of the sister of Charles XII, the duchess Hedvig Sophia of 
 Holstein-Gottorp. 
 
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ine i^ninese room. 
 
 63 
 
 The Chinese room. 
 
 The decoration of the walls and the ceiling of this room dates from the time of 
 Frederik III; [in the year 1716 Frederik IV caused it to be restored by the lackerer 
 Christian von Braclit; formerly several precious stones have been sitting in the walls, 
 but in the course of time most of these have disappeared and only some few are left. 
 The floor is of wood with marble slabs before the fire-place. 
 
 Portraits: Frederik IV, queen Louise and the Norwegian carver 
 Magnus Berg, perhaps painted by the artist himself. 
 
 A silver table. 
 
 Furniture: A silver furniture consisting of a square table, a cabi- 
 net with several drawers, resting upon a gilt carved wooden under 
 part, an arm-chair, covered with velvet, with a crown at the top of the 
 back and two oval mirrors wearing the cipher of Frederik IV. 
 
 In one of the windows: A large tray of Japanese enamel. 
 
 Under the ceiling: An extremely beautiful chandelier of Chinese 
 
The Chinese room. 
 
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 enamel with twelve branches. Two one-branched sconces to match 
 are fixed at one of the windows. 
 
 In the windows and on the walls many reliefs in ivory: Portraits 
 of Frederik IV and queen Louise, a hermit reading in a forest, a river- 
 god, a satyr with two nymphs and a cupid. Furthermore the follow- 
 ing works made by the Norwegian carver Magnus Berg: a) BibUcal 
 representations: The creation of Eve, Lot leaving Sodoma with his 
 
 The creation of Eve, relief in ivory, carved by Magnus Berg. 
 
 two daughters, Joseph and the wife of Potiphar, Moses erecting the 
 copper-serpent in the desert, Mary with the Holy Child, the child-mur- 
 der of Bethlehem, the baptism of Christ, John the Baptist pointing at 
 the lamb of God, the marriage of Cana, Christ in Gethsemane, the 
 denial of St. Peter, Judas with the silver coins, the flagellation of Christ, 
 the thorn-crowning of Christ, Christ going to Golgotha, the descent 
 of Christ from the cross, the resurrection of Christ, triumphant 
 
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66 
 
 The Chinese room. 
 
 Christ crushing the head of the serpent, Christ and the unbeheving Thomas, 
 the stoning of Stephanus, St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, 
 St. Paul, a hermit with a death's head in one hand and a book in the 
 other; b) Allegorical representations : Sight, Smell, Taste, Feeling, Sum- 
 mer, Autumn, Winter, ■ Truth unveiled by Time while Lie escapes 
 affrighted; c) Mythological representations : The three Graces, Jupiter 
 
 PP*- ■>■' - -a^v»^ 
 
 Jupiter and Europe, relief in ivory, carved by Magnus Berg. 
 
 and Europe, the procession of Thetis over the waves, Diana with Minerva, 
 Venus and Cupid. Finally two medallions with portraits of Christian V 
 and queen Charlotte Amelia and of Frederik IV and queen Louise, 
 both of them crowned by Minerva, made by Magnus Berg, and a very 
 large haut relief representing Frederik IV allegorically ; the latter piece. 
 
Ihe Chinese roorti. 
 
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 which took Magnus Berg more than three years in fulfilling, was fini- 
 shed 1730 
 
 
 St. Paul, relief in ivory, carved by Magnus Berg. 
 
 Jn a glass-cabinet to the left: An equestrian statuette of Frederik 
 IV in silver, presented to the king as a new-year's gift in 170 1 by queen 
 Louise ; made by the goldsmith Andrew Normann. -^ A silver statuette 
 
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68 
 
 The Chinese room. 
 
 ofFrederiklV crowned with a garland by a Victory; on the base repre- 
 sentations and inscriptions bearing allusion to the peace concluded at Fre- 
 
 Truth unveiled by Time, relief in ivory, carved by Magnus Berg. 
 
 deriksborg in 1720 and the reunion of Sleswick and Denmark; made 
 
 by Peter Klein. — Several historical cups and goblets with inscriptions. 
 
 In a glass-cabinet to the right: Various miniatures of Frederik 
 
The Chinese room. 
 
 69 
 
 IV, queen Louise, queen Anne Sophia Reventlow and princess Sophia 
 Hedvig, partly mounted in enamel and set with precious stones. — 
 Two flower paintings made by Sophia Hedvig and presented to Frede- 
 riklV on his 50th birthday in 1721; they are mounted in silver gilt en- 
 amelled frames set with diamonds; in the centre of one of them the 
 
 The homage goblet. 
 
 cipher of the king, but in the other a small oval mirror. It is told, 
 that Frederik IV had always complained of his portraits not resembling, 
 and that his sister therefore had promised to give him a portrait 
 of doubtless resemblance. — Two gold goblets, called the homage 
 goblet and the Eider goblet, upon which representations and in- 
 
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 The Chinese room. 
 
 scriptions bearing allusion to different important events in the period of 
 1 718 to 1 721, viz: the death of Charles XII, the conclusion of the peace 
 of Frederiksborg, the wedding of Frederik IV and queen Anne Sophia 
 Reventlow and the coronation of the latter, the reunion of ^leswick 
 and Denmark and the, soth birthday of Frederik IV. — A very large 
 
 The Eider goblet. 
 
 gold goblet, wearing the double-crowned cipher of Frederik IV, set with 
 diamonds, and resting upon three saliant crowned lions, each hold- 
 ing a shield in its fore-paws; presented by Frederik IV to count 
 Holstein as a reward for his, efforts at the abduction of Anne 
 Sophia Reventlow from the mansion of Clausholm in Jutland in 17 12, 
 
The Holstein goblet. 
 
7 2 The Chinese room. 
 
 and afterwards, in 1807, after the bombardment of Copenhagen by the 
 English, given back to the State by the Holstein family. — Two 
 gold inkstands with pyramids and with the ciphers of Frederik IV and 
 the princess Sophia Hedvig. — A very beautifully enamelled silver gilt toi- 
 let-service consisting of a mirror, two candle-sticks, seven boxes and a 
 brush. — A toilet-mirror in gold mounting set with rose diamonds. — 
 A square mirror in an enamelled frame set with various coloured sto- 
 nes, supposed to have been presented by queen Anne of England. 
 
 — A square box of agate set with diamonds, with a negro bust of 
 black onyx upon the lid. — A tureen of Icelandic obsidian with 
 portraits and ciphers of Frederik IV and queen Anne Sophia. — A 
 real pearl in the shape of a swan with wings set with diamonds in a 
 gold basket. — A real pearl in the shape of a lamb. — A silver vine 
 with six grapes of emeralds; beside it a negro adorned with precious 
 stones. — Two small negro figures adorned with diamonds. — A bowl 
 made of a large garnet; the lid is composed of a quantity of smaller 
 garnets, in one of which the crowned cipher of the princess Sophia 
 Hedvig; two green enamelled serpents form the handles. ~r A fan of 
 ivory brought home from Italy by Frederik IV and presented to queen 
 Louise. — Two boxes in ivory, turned by Frederik IV when crownprince. 
 
 — A box of ivory, in which an ^Annulus Trinitatis«, madfe of one bit 
 of ivory, and a goblet of ivory; these two objects have been made by 
 the Swedish general Magnus Stenbock during his imprisonment in 17 14. 
 — A compass in a round box of ivory with the portrait of the Czar Peter 
 the Great on the outside of the lid ; is supposed to have been made by 
 Peter the Great. — Some cups and saucers of Chinese porcelain. — 
 A model of the lirie-ofbattle ship »Anna Sophia«, made of amber 1723 
 by the naval officer Didrik Thura. — Various glasses and glass goblets 
 with historical inscriptions, especially bearing allusion to the war against 
 Charles XII. 
 
 From the time of Christian VI (1730 — 1746). 
 
 Christian VI, son of Frederik IV and queen Louise, was born in 1699 and on the 
 death of his father in 1730 he ascended the throne. He died after a peaceful reign of 
 sixteen years in 1746. His consort que'en Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Culmbach, 
 whom he had married in 1721, was very fond of luxury; she survived him till 1770. 
 
 The smaller room of Christian VI. 
 
 The walls are hung with gold -leather; in the ceiling a picture, representing 
 Apollo and the Muses, painted by Coffre in 1721; the wooden floor is beautifully inlaid. 
 
Christian VI. 
 
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 The smaller room of Christian VI. 
 
The rooms of Christian VI. 75 
 
 Portraits: Christian VI (a half-length portrait, a smaller portrait, 
 two sculptured busts), queen Sophia Magdalen (a half-length portrait). — 
 A family-picture representing the king, the queen and their two children. 
 
 Furthermore portraits of the renowned poet Ludvig Holberg, the 
 learned Hans Gram and the architect Lauritz Thura. 
 
 Furniture: We notice especially a magnificent cabinet of rose- 
 wood inlaid with mother of pearl and ivory and containing a piano; 
 made in 1735., — Upon a white chest of drawers with a marble top 
 is placed a magnificent vase of ivory, the last work of Magnus Berg. 
 
 On the walls: The escutcheons of Denmark and Brandenburg, 
 embroidered. 
 
 Under the ceiling, by the -window: A small chandelier of amber 
 with sixteen branches. 
 
 In a glass-cabinet: The dress, which the king wore at his anoint- 
 ment and another one worn by him at the wedding of his son. — 
 Several guns wearing the ciphers of the king or the queen. 
 
 The larger room of Christian VI. 
 
 This room has a parqueted floor; in the ceiling a picture representing Flora 
 scattering her abundance over Denmark, painted by Coffre; the walls are hung with 
 hautelisse-tapestry. 
 
 Portraits: Christian VI, queen Sophia Magdalen, their son crown- 
 prince Frederik, their daughter Louise, the king's sister princess Char- 
 lotte Amelia, the ministers of state Ivar Rosenkrands and Johan Lud- 
 vig Holstein. 
 
 Furniture: A very large cabinet with mirrors and chime of bells, 
 made by the court-joiner Chr. Fr. Lehmann at the time of Frederik V. 
 — A large cab?het inlaid with mother of pearl and metal; on the door 
 Christian VI on horseback, on- the drawers the provincial arms. — The 
 turning-lathe of queen Sophia Magdalen. — A washing-table covered 
 with delf; upon this stands a small wine- cask of glas.s. — • A silver wine- 
 cooler and a silver tea-urn. 
 
 On the walls: The embroidered family-arms of queen Sophia Mag- 
 dalen. — The hunting gun of the queen and two antlers of stags. 
 
 In the windows: Paintings in water-colours representing the castle 
 of Copenhagen in older and later time, the castles of Christiansborg, 
 Rosenborg and Kronborg. 
 
 Ufon the turning-lathe and iipon tiuo chests of drawers: Various 
 objects of ivory and silver. — Two models of line-of-battle ships, of 
 
A cabine t of 17 15^^ 
 
The vase of Magnus Berg. 
 
A cabinet, made by Lehmann. 
 
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 The larger room of Christian VI. 
 
 A goblet from Hirschholm castle. 
 
 amber, tortoise-shell and 
 mother of pearl, made 
 by the custom-house of- 
 ficer Niels Nielsen ofA^l" 
 borg in Jutland. 
 
 In iwo corner-cabinets : 
 Two toilet - services in 
 gilt silver. — A silver' 
 gilt centrepiece in the 
 shape of an ananas, fur- 
 nished with six goblets, 
 used at the castle of 
 Hirschholm. 
 
 In the corner-calinet 
 by ' the window : Various 
 objects of agate, marble, 
 onyx, heliotrope etc. 
 
 /» a glass-case: The 
 Order of the Elephant, 
 enamelled and inscribed 
 with the cipher of -Chri- 
 stian VI. — The Order 
 of the Perfect Union, in- 
 stituted 1732 by Sophia 
 Magdalen in memory of 
 
 her happy marriage. 
 
 Several obiects adorned 
 with precious stones, be- 
 queathed by Sophia 
 Magdalen to the collec- 
 tion of Rosenborg. 
 
 In a large glasscabi- 
 jtet: Some dishes and 
 plates of Japanese porce- 
 lain, a plate of Saxon 
 porcelain and an ink- 
 stand of delf of Copen- 
 hagen. — A silver mo- 
 del of the landing-pier 
 of Bergen in Norway 
 as it was decorated 
 
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 at the visit of the royal family in 1733 ; made by John Miiller, townsman and 
 goldsmith at Bergen. — A small cabinet of silver filigree-work with the 
 royal ciphers; made in 1736 by the above John Miiller at Bergen. — ■ 
 A silver trowel used by Christian VI in 
 laying the foundation stone of the castle 
 of Christiansborg. — A gold inkstand 
 wearing the cipher of Christian VI. — The 
 diaries of Christian VI of the years 1741 
 — 1 744, partly written in the king's own 
 hand (published by the author of this 
 catalogue). — A box of ivory turned by 
 Christian VI. — A smooth round box; 
 upon the lid a rose of amber turned by 
 Christian VI. — A catalogue of the dia- 
 monds and the jewels of queen Sophia 
 Magdalen, written in her own hand. 
 
 The Order of the Perfect Union. 
 
 From the time of Frederik V (1746 — 1766). 
 
 Frederik V, son of Christian VI and queen Sophia Magdalen, was born in 1723 ; he 
 ascended the throne on the death of his father in 1746, and died in 1766 after a peace- 
 ful reign of 20 years. His first consort Louise, a daughter of the English king George 
 11, died in 1751 after 8 years' marriage, aged 27 years. In 175^ the king married the 
 princess Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbiittel, who died in 1796, aged 67 years. 
 
 The corridor to the room of Frederik V. 
 
 The walls are hung with hautelisse-tapestry, the floor is paved with slabs from 
 Gotland. 
 
 Portraits and busts: Frederik V (bust in bronzed plaster), his sister 
 Louise and her husband, duke Ernest Frederik Charles of Sachsen- 
 Hildburghausen, the daughter of Frederik IV Charlotte Amelia, the 
 sister of queen Sophia Magdalen, princess Sophia Caroline of East- 
 friesland, the son of Frederik V, the hereditary prince Frederik, the 
 Swedish king Gustavus III and his consort Sophia Magdalen, daughter of 
 Frederik V. — Count John Hartvig Ernest Bernstorff, bust in marble 
 made by John Wiedewelt. — The consort of count John Sigismund 
 Schulin, Catherine Maria M0sting, bust in marble, made by Cavaceppi. 
 Various private persons, amongst whoni the Norwegian sailor 
 Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg, who attained the age of 146 years; his 
 portrait was painted in his 1 1 oth year. 
 
Frederlk V. 
 
A time-piece of the time of Frederik V. 
 
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 The room of Frederik V. 
 
 Furniture: A cabinet wholly covered with plate-glass. — An inlaid 
 cabinet, the doors of which are covered with plate-glass ; on the top 
 the cipher of queen Juliana Maria. — A small piano, made in 1762 at 
 Copenhagen by Christian Ferdinand Speer. — A clock containing a chime 
 of bells. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A chandelier of glass (from the castle of Jae- 
 gerspris). 
 
 The room of Frederik V. 
 
 The walls are hung with Florentine tapestry of velvet wrought with gold; the 
 ceiling, originally divided into oil-painted panels, was in the year 1876 painted in dis- 
 temper; the floor is^of wood. 
 
 The writing table of Caroline Mathilde. 
 
The room of Frederik V. 
 
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 Portraits^ busts and drawings: Frederik V (half-length portraits, alle- 
 gorical pictures, portraits in relief), queen Louise, their daughter: queen 
 Sophia Magdalen of Sweden, queen Juliana Maria, her son: the hereditary- 
 prince Frederik, count John Hartvig Ernest Bernstorff, count Adam Gott- 
 lob Moltke (bust in delf), count St. Germain (painting in water-colours 
 of the year 1762), various miniatures 
 and ten drawings of Danish officers 
 of the year 1757. 
 
 Furniture: A chest of drawers 
 with a slab of white marble, upon 
 which a time-piece of ivory in the 
 shape of a temple and two octogonal 
 tureens of porcelain wearing the cipher 
 of queen Juliana Maria and the eque- 
 strian statue of Amalienborg in Co- 
 penhagen. — A writing table of gilt 
 "wood with a slab of grey marble; 
 supposed to have been used by 
 queen Caroline Mathilde; upon the 
 table- a very precious lace collar worn 
 by queen Louise. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A chandelier 
 of amber made in 1753 by Lorenz 
 Spengler after a drawing by Marcus 
 Tuscher. 
 
 In a glass-cabinet: The wedding- 
 dress of Frederik V and a red gold- 
 laced garment. — A brace of richly 
 mounted gold pistols, presented to Fre- 
 derik V by the townsmen of Copen- 
 hagen on occasion of his anointment. 
 
 In three other glass-cabinets: Va- 
 rious objects in ivory, partly made by 
 Spengler; some of these things were 
 made by royal and princely persons. 
 
 By the window: A splendid ar- 
 ticle of ivory and lapis lazuli, made 
 by Spengler. — A precious tea-ser- 
 vice of Dresden china. 
 
 In a glass-cabinet by the window: 
 A splendid gold coffee-service, made A gold pistol. 
 
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 jubilee of Sovereignty. 
 
The room of Christian VII. 8/ 
 
 in Copenhagen in 1761 and 1762. — Various beautiful glass-goblets. — 
 Some articles of china made in Copenhagen by Fournier; they wear as 
 a mark the cipher of Frederik V. — A fine collection of Dresden china. — 
 Several enamelled boxes, amongst which one with the Capitoline dovet. 
 in Roman mosaic on the lid; belonged to the empress Catherine II of 
 Russia. — The Order of the Elephant of Frederik V, covered with 
 diamonds, sapphires and rubies, — The Russian Order of St. Andrew 
 in brilliants, worn by Frederik V. — The portrait of Frederik V engra- 
 ved on a very large topaz, cut by Natter. — The hereditary prince Fre- 
 derik as a baby in his swaddling-cloth, in ivory. 
 
 From the time of Christian VII (1766— 1808). 
 
 Christian VII, son of Frederik V and queen Louise, was born in 1749 and after having 
 ascended tlie throne on the death of his father in 1766, he married in the same year the 
 English princess Caroline Mathilde. Shortly afterwards the physician Struensee obtained 
 a powerful influence upon the government, but in the year 1772 Struensee was overthrown 
 and beheaded, and Caroline Mathilde was divorced from the king and transported to Celle, 
 where she died three years afterwards. The king died in 1808. 
 
 The room of Christian VIL 
 
 This room is in all essential points mounted in the same way as the- preceding. 
 
 Portraits and busts: Christian VII, Caroline Mathilde (various half- 
 length portraits, the one of which with the Order of Mathilde, instituted by 
 her, a miniature painted by Angelica Kauffmann at Celle), the royal chil- 
 dren: crownprince Frederik (afterwards king Frederik VI) and Louise 
 Augusta (afterwards duchess of Augustenborg), Juliana Maria (we notice 
 especially a relief medallion in wax, made by Spengler, presented to 
 the museum in 1887 by the imperial German minister at the Danish court 
 of that time, afterwards German ambassador at Madrid the baron v. Stumm), 
 her son the hereditary prince Frederik and his consort Sophia Fre- 
 derike. 
 
 Struensee, his friend Brandt (who was also beheaded), the enemies 
 of Struensee: Hoegh-Guldberg (bust in marble) and general Eichstadt. 
 The minister of state count Andrew Peter Bernstoff (bust in 
 marble, portrait in oil). — Several miniatures. 
 
 Furniture: Various tables, chairs and time- pieces in the style of 
 Lewis XVI. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A chandelier of glass with eight branches. 
 
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 Christian VII. 
 
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 The Order of Mathilde. 
 
 On the walls and by the windows: The diplomas of Christian VII 
 as a doctor of civil law in the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, as 
 a honorary member of the goldsmiths' company in London and as a 
 honorary citizen of London. — Two drawings 
 in Indian ink, made by William Haffner, cap- 
 tain of the infantry, containing representations 
 of the apartment of the king and of the 
 audience- chamber of crownprince Frederik. — 
 Two vases of Danish china, on one of them 
 the portrait of Marcus Aurelius, on the other 
 that of the queen Juliana Maria. — A silver 
 goblet with inscriptions in memory of the war 
 against Sweden in 1788. 
 
 In a large glass-cabinet : The wedding 
 dress and the coronation dress of Christian 
 VII. — A suit of blue cloth, presented to 
 Christian VII by Lewis XV. — Three sabres 
 wearing inscriptions in memory of the battle 
 in the roads of Copenhagen April 2d 1801. 
 
 Upon the cabinet: A work of art in ivory, made in 1782 by John 
 Christopher Opitz. 
 
 On the side of the cabinet: A bell-purse for collecting alms from 
 the congregation, made of velvet and wrought with gold, wearing the 
 cipher of Christian VII and the date of 1766. 
 
 In a glass-case: Two gold boxes for the diplomas of Christian VII 
 as a honorary member of the goldsmiths' company and as a honorary 
 citizen of London. — Portrait in relief of Christian VII set with 
 small diamonds, presented to the king by the goldsmiths of Paris. — 
 A gold ring with a portrait of queen Caroline Mathilde. — A gold 
 watch with chatelaine richly set with diamonds; belonged to Caroline 
 Mathilde. — The silver travelling-Clock of queen Caroline Mathilde; on 
 taking her leave at Kronborg she presented it to her first lady of 
 honour Mrs. von der Liihe, afterwards the consort of the privy counsel- 
 lor Numsen. — Various miniatures. 
 
 In the glass-cabinet between the windows: A glass goblet wearing 
 an inscription referring to the wedding of Christian VII and queen Caro- 
 line Mathilde. — Various objects of glass with the royal ciphers. — 
 Several objects of porcelain, partly with the mark of the manufactory 
 of Copenhagen. 
 
 Upon the tables: Various objects of porcelain, amongst which a 
 tea-set with the name and the birthday of the hereditary princess Sophia 
 
The wedding glass goblet of Christian VII and Caroline Mathilde. 
 
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Frederik VI. 
 
The room of Frederik VI. 
 
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 Frederike, 24th August 1783, made at the china-manufactory of Co- 
 penhagen. 
 
 From the time of Frederik VI (1808—1839). 
 
 Frederik VI, son of Christian VII and queen Caroline Mathilde, was born in 1768. 
 From the year 1784 as crovvnprince he took part in the government and on the death of 
 his father in 1808 he ascended the throne. The war. which had commenced against Eng- 
 land in 1807 after the bombardment of Copenhagen and the carrying off of the Danish 
 navy, tended in 1814 with the loss of Norway. Frederik VI died in 1839. His consort, 
 queen Maria Sophia Frederike, whom he had married in 1790, survived him until 1852. 
 
 The room of Frederik VI 
 
 has been decorated in the present time in the style of the empire. 
 
 Portraits and other -pictures: Frederik VI, his consort and his two 
 daughters, Caroline (afterwards married with the hereditary prince Fer- 
 dinand), and Vilhelmine Maria (afterwards married with prince Frederik 
 Cliarles Christian) upon one canvas, painted by Eckersberg. — Frederik 
 VI and his family, walking in the park of Frederiksberg; painted in water- 
 colours. -- Various portraits of Frederik VI, queen Maria Sophia Fre- 
 derike, the princess Caroline, the duchess Louise Augusta, the hereditary 
 prince Frederik, Christian VIII in his younger days, the hereditary prince 
 Ferdinand, count Rosencrone and his consort, the ministers of .state 
 Reventlo\y and Mailing. — Frederik VI and the queen driving to 
 the theatre by torch-light, painted by Lorentzen. 
 
 Furniture: The writing-desk of Frederik VI, painted in white; 
 by this hangs upon the wall a china tobacco-pipe with the portrait 
 of Frederik VI on the bowl and a negro head on the pipe-stem; 
 this pipe was presented by Frederik VI to general Biilow in me- 
 mory of his co-operation in the aboHtion of the slave-trade in the 
 Danish islands of the West-Indies. — A cabinet of darkbrown wood 
 inlaid with yellow wood. — A small oval table with a metal slab; 
 upon the table the model of a hne-of-battle ship of ii6 guns, made 
 by Danish prisoners of war in England from bones of their meat. — ■ 
 Two tripods with slabs of white marble; upon each of them a marble 
 vase in which a candlestick with seven branches in the shape of lilies. 
 — A semicircular console-cupboard inlaid with wood ; upon this two can- 
 delabra with three branches and a marble time-piece with reUefs of 
 Wedgewood-porcelain. 
 
 Under the ceiling: An alabaster hanging lamp. 
 
 In the glass-cabinet: Various uniforms of Frederik VI, his Danish 
 dress of Order, his coronation dress and his dress of the Order of the 
 
9^ The room of Christian VIII. 
 
 Garter. — The coronation mantle of queen Maria Sophia Frederike. — 
 The cotton umbrella of Frederik VI. 
 
 On the sides of the cabinet: Some weapons of Frederik VI. 
 
 Upon the. cabinet: Some china objects. 
 
 In a small glass-case upon the cabinet: A sabre with gold hilt and 
 gold mounted sheath and a gold tobacco-pipe; conquered by a negro- 
 queen of the Gold Coast from the king ofAshanti and sent to Denmark 
 as a trophy. 
 
 In the window: A chocolate-set of Danish china with a crowned 
 F. — Two vases of Copenhagen china with portraits of Frederik VI 
 and queen Maria Sophia Frederike. — Four china plates, the one with 
 a representation of Louise'nlund on the frith of Sleswick, another one 
 with the castle of Kronborg, the third with Hymen and Cupid and 
 the fourth with a flower picture. 
 
 From the time of Christian VIII (1839— 1848). 
 
 Christian VIII, when prince called Christian Frederik, son of the half-brother of 
 Christian VII, the hereditary prince Frederik, and his consort Sophia Frederike, was born 
 in 1786. After Norway had been separated from Denmark, he was elected king in 
 Norway May 17th 1814, but he abdicated already October lOth in the same year. On 
 the death of his cousin Frederik VI in 1839 he ascended the throne of Denmark and 
 died in 1848. His • first consort Charlotte Frederike was a princess of Mecklenburg- 
 Schwerin, his second consort Caroline Amelia, whom he married in iSlJ, was a daugh- 
 ter of Frederik VI's sister, the duchess Louise Augusta of Augustenborg; she survived 
 him for many years and died in 1881, aged 85 years. 
 
 The room of Christian VIII. 
 
 This room has been decorated in the present time; the ceiling is painted in the 
 style of the antiquity in order to indicate the interest of this^ king for the classical an- 
 tiquity. Besides the objects of the time of Christian VIII furthermore some articles, 
 of the time of Frederik VI are deposited here. 
 
 Portraits, busts, pictures, drawings: Christian VIII as prince, full- 
 length, painted in 1831 by Aumont. — Three portraits of the same, half- 
 length, one of them painted by Kratzenstein-Stub, another by Marstrand. 
 — Portrait of the same, drawn by Miss Romili. — Bust in bronze of 
 the same, copied after Thorvaldsen. — Bust in marble of the same, 
 made by Stramboe. — Equestrian statuette in silver of the same, made 
 by the widow of the counsellor of state Vogt, nee Herbst. — Portrait of 
 Caroline Amelia, full-length, painted by Aumont. — Bust in bronze of 
 the same, copied after Thorvaldsen. — Bust in marble of the same, 
 made by Stramboe. — Picture in sepia, representing Christian VIII and 
 

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The room of Christian VIII. 99 
 
 Caroline Amelia sitting on their' thrones. — Portrait of Frederik VII in 
 his childhood. — Bust in marble of the same, made by Thorvaldsen. 
 
 — Portrait of the same in his youth, painted by professor C. A. Jensen, 
 
 — Portrait of the hereditary princess Caroline, daughter of Frederik VI, 
 half-length, painted by Aumont. — Portrait of the duchess Vilhelmine 
 Maria, daughter of Frederik VI, full-length, painted by Aumont. —Portrait 
 of the landgrave William of Hesse, father of the present queen Louise, 
 painted by Jensen. — Portraits of the sculptor Thorvaldsen, the poet 
 Oehlenschlager, the naturalist Hans Christian 0rsted, the poet Ingemann, 
 the minister of state Stemann. — Three pictures, representing the 
 funeral of Frederik VI. 
 
 Two drawings by Gertner, representing the anointment of Chri- 
 stian VIII and queen Caroline Amelia. — Two pictures representing 
 the coronation and the anointment of Christian VIII and queen Caroline 
 Amelia and the coronation-procession, painted by Gertner. — Two pic- 
 tures representing the funeral of Christian VIII, painted by Simonsen. 
 
 Furniture: Two sofas. — Several chairs, amongst which two arm- 
 chairs painted in white, and gilt, covered with red velvet, used at the 
 wedding of prince Christian Frederik (afterwards king Christian VIII) 
 with Caroline Amelia at Augustenborg in 181 5. — Various tables, upon 
 one of which a silver gilt drinking horn, which was presented by Da- 
 nish ladies to the poet Ingemann on his 70th birthday May 28th 1859. 
 
 Under the ceiling: A chandelier with eighteen branches, decorated 
 with glass-drops and gilt bronze-mounting in the style of the empire. 
 
 In the centre of the room: The circular table of council of Frede- 
 rik VI; upon this a glass-case with a centrepiece in the middle, upon 
 which a jewel-case of embossed workmanship with gilding; it was made 
 in France and belonged to queen Caroline Amelia. 
 
 In the glass-case: Some badges of Orders worn by Frederik VI: 
 the Legion of Honour of Napoleon I, the Westphalian Order of king 
 Jerome Napoleon, the Dutch Union's Order of king Lewis Napoleon, 
 the French Order of the Holy Ghost of Lewis XVIII, the Legion of 
 Honour with the emblems of the house of Bourbon. — The diploma of 
 the Order of the Garter of Frederik VI and the statutes of this order 
 with affixed wax-seals in capsules. — The large travelling clock of 
 Frederik VI. — His pedometer. 
 
 Two badges of Orders worn by Christian VIII : the Legion of 
 Honour of Lewis Philip and the Greek Order of the Saviour of king 
 Otto. — ■ The Spanish Ladies' Order of Maria Louise Worn by queen 
 Carohne Amelia. — Two chamberlain's keys, conferred by Christian 
 
'OO The room of Frederik VII. 
 
 VIII when king of Norway, in 1814. — The diploma of Christian VIII 
 as a doctor of civil law in the university of Oxford. 
 
 In the glass-cabinet: The coronation dress of Christian VIII, his 
 dress of the Order of the Elephant, the suit which he wore in the 
 supreme court, his military uniforms. 
 
 In the windows: A china inkstand. — A china breakfast set, 
 bought by the chief marshal of the household Hauch at Vienna as a 
 wedding gift from Caroline Amelia to prince Christian Frederik. 
 
 From the time of Frederik VII (1848—1863). 
 
 Frederik VII, when prince called Frederik Charles Christian, son of Christian VIII 
 and his first consort Charlotte Frederike, was born in lSo8, he ascended the throne on 
 the death of his father in 1848 and died in 1863. 
 
 The room of Frederik VII. 
 
 This room- has been decorated in the present time in the style of the renaissance. 
 
 Portraits, busts and pictures: Various miniatures and portraits of 
 Frederik VII in his childhood and his youth, amongst which a picture 
 on copper, painted in 1813 by Kratzenstein-Stub. — Portrait-medallion in 
 terra cotta of Frederik VII, made by the medal engraver Conradsen. 
 — Portrait of the same, drawn in 1841 by Gertner. — Portrait of the 
 same in the uniform of an admiral, halflength, painted by Gertner. — 
 Bust in biscuit of the same, made in 1863 in the china-manufactory of 
 Bing and Grondahl at Copenhagen after a model byBissen. — Portrait 
 of the second consort of Frederik VII, princess Caroline Charlotte 
 Mariane of Mecklenburg. — Portrait of the mother of Frederik VII Char- 
 lotte Frederike. — Portrait of her parents, the grandduke Frederik 
 Franz of Mecklenburg and his consort Louise ; pastel paintings. — Por- 
 trait of the step-mother of Frederik VII, queen Caroline Amelia, pain- 
 ted in 1879 by professor H. Chr. Jensen. — Picture representing the 
 salute in the outer harbour of Copenhagen at the arrival of the princess 
 Caroline Charlotte Mariane in 1841 ; painted by A. Melbye. — Two 
 pictures representing the wedding entrance of the named princess in 
 the square in front of the castle of Christiansborg at Copenhagen; 
 painted by Balsgaard. 
 
 Furniture: The writing table of Frederik VII and several other 
 articles of his furniture. 
 
 In the tmndoiv: A model of the yacht of Frederik VII, called 
 »the Falcon*. 
 
 In the large glass-cabinet: Various uniforms and suits of Frederik 
 
Frederik VII. 
 
I02 The tower-room containing the hronze taV'le-sets. 
 
 VII, some of his weapons and badges of Orders and several other 
 objects, that belonged to him. 
 
 Upon the cabinet: Two large vases of S^svres-china, presented to 
 Frederik VII by the emperor Napoleon III. — Two vases of Parian- 
 china from the manufactory of Gustafsberg in Sweden, presented to 
 the museum by king Charles XV of Sweden. 
 
 In a smaller glass-cabinet: Several badges of foreign Orders worn 
 by Frederik VII. 
 
 The tower-room containing the bronze table-sets of queen 
 Caroline Amelia and of the, hereditary princess Caroline. 
 
 Aiter the death of the queen-dowager Caroline Amelia and the 
 hereditary princess Caroline in i88i the museum of Rosenborg has 
 obtained two table-sets of gilt bronze, which belonged to the named 
 royal ladies and have been bought by the brewer Mr. Charles Jacobsen of 
 NewCarlsberg near Copenhagen and presented by him as a gift to the 
 chronological collection. The one, on the right side of the entrance, 
 was made in Paris after designs of professor Hetsch and presented to 
 the hereditary princess as a wedding gift in 1829; it consists of 3 
 plateaux with plate-glass, 4 larger and 4 smaller candelabra, some vases 
 with artificial flowers and some similar with oblong crystal-bowls and 
 several centrepieces with polished crystal- cups to match. The above 
 set is in the style of the empire and richly gilt.- The other set, which 
 belonged to the queen- dowager, is arranged on the left side of the 
 entrance and consists of 3 plateaux with plate-glass, 4 large candelabra, 
 8 centrepieces with bowls of polished crystal and 8 fruit-stands with 
 polished crystal; all these objects are made in Paris. To this table-set 
 belong furthermore 11 figures copied from Thorvaldsen, partly modelled 
 byFreund, partly by foreign artists, especially by Galli under the inspec- 
 tion of Thorvaldsen in Rome; they were cast in the workshop ofjollage 
 and Hopfgarten at Rome and made in gilt bronze; the figures, which 
 represent the three Graces, Jason, Mars, the shepherd boy. Mercury, 
 Cupid, Psyche, Venus, Hebe, the female dancer and the hunter, are pla- 
 ced upon pedestals of polished porphyre. Not only the here mentioned 
 objects have been presented by Mr. Jacobsen, but the decoration 
 of the whole room is due to him. The ceiling, of plaster and richly 
 gilt, is a copy from a ceiling in the palace of the landgrave in 
 »Bredgade« at Copenhagen, the walls are hung with silk-tapestry from 
 
The tower-room containing the bronze table-sets. 
 
I04 The knights' hall. 
 
 the palace of the hereditary princess Caroline, the door- and the win- 
 dow-mounting and the tables, upon which the objects are arranged, are 
 white-lackered with gilding, the floor is paved with marble slabs and 
 the window-sill with a marble plate; the window is furnished with red 
 curtains with garlands. Under the ceiling hangs a lamp with four branches 
 of polished crystal and gilt bronze, which belonged to the queen- 
 dowager; in the window two sconces with five branches in the style of 
 the empire belonging to the property of the hereditary princess, and 
 furthermore in this room six tabourets of gilt wood covered with silk in 
 the shape of antique sellae curules, also of the property of the heredi- 
 tary priiycess; all the objects here mentioned have also been presented 
 by Mr. Jacobsen. 
 
 The winding staircase to the knights' hall 
 
 contains several portraits of the 17th and i8th century. 
 
 The uppermost floor. 
 The knights' hall. 
 
 The knights' hall extends over the whole length and breadth of 
 the main building; the present decoration dates from the close of the 
 1 7th and the beginning of the 1 8th century. Near the end of the reign 
 of Christian V the twelve large hangings, which have been made after 
 drawings by the painter Peter Andersen in the manufactory of the 
 Dutch brothers van der Eichen in Denmark, were hung up in the hall. 
 These hangings, which contain representations of the most important 
 events of the Scanian war, surrounded by symbols of war, are furnished 
 at the foot with explaining inscriptions. They are mentioned here in 
 the consecutive order, in which they are hung up, commencing by the 
 northern wall from the thrones : 
 
 1. The conquest of Wismar December 13th 1675. 
 
 2. The conquest of the castle of Landscrotia August 4th 1676. 
 
 3. The naval victory of the admiral Niels Juel upon Kolbergerheide 
 June ist 1677. 
 
 4. The conquest of Marstrand July 23th .1677. 
 
 5. The landing at Raa near Helsingborg June 29th 1676. 
 
 6. The naval battle off 01and June ist 1676. ■• 
 
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 On the southern wall from the bay-window: 
 
 7. The conquest of Helsingborg July 3d 1676.- 
 
 8. The conquest of Christiansstad August 15th 1676. 
 
 9. The landing in Riigen September 17th 1677. 
 
 10. The conquest of Damgarten in Pomerania October 6th 1675. 
 
 11. The naval victory of Niels Juel in KJ0ge-bay July ist 1677. 
 
 12. The conquest of Landscrona July nth 1676. 
 
 Above the mantel-piece in the southern end of the hall a white 
 marble bust of Christian IV, over the entrance door of the room of the 
 regalia a white marble portrait-medallion of Christian V and over the 
 entrance door from the staircase a plaster portrait-medallion of Frederik 
 IV surrounded by wood ornaments carved by Frederik Ehbisch. Under 
 the ceiling a white stucco cornice marbled by Christian von Bracht; 
 over this the magnificent arched stucco ceiling made in the years 1706 
 and 1707 by the sculptors Frederik Ehbisch, Franz Biener, Leonhard 
 Schwabe, Mathias Scheidinger, Christian Knebel, Antonio Auzone, Gott- 
 fried Joch and Carlo Maria Pozzi. The four paintings in the ceiling 
 representing the regalia, are painted by Heinrich Krock. The ceiling is 
 divided into five parts; in the middle the Danish escutcheon in stucco 
 with colours, surrounded by the collars of the Order of the Danebrog 
 and of the Elephant and on the sides four relief-representations of the 
 abolition of bondage- in 1700, the institution of the land-militia in 1701, 
 the institution of the dragoons in 1701 and the enrolment of sailors 
 in 1704. Upon the cornice in the southern end of the hall are placed 
 two figures, representing Asia and Africa, in the opposite end of the 
 hall corresponding representations of America and Europe. In the four 
 corners of the hall relief-representations of the four winds. 
 
 The knights' hall contains, besides 6 armchairs and 12 highbacked 
 chairs of the time of Frederik IV with embroidered covers, supposed 
 to have been made by queen Charlotte Amelia and her court ladies, six 
 smaller mirrors, two larger so-called mirrors of order, all in silver fra- 
 mes, and two very large mirrors in silver frames with silver console- 
 tables to match, which were saved from the first conflagration of 
 Christiansborg palace in 1794', the plate-glass was destroyed, but the 
 frames have afterwards been furnished with plate-glass from Weber's 
 manufactory at Haderslev; furthermore 4 high silver candelabra with 
 twelve-branched candlesticks and 12 silver candle-stands (four of these 
 with the cipher SC, four others with CA and four without ciphers); 
 some of these silver objects bear the dates of 1732, 1736 and 1752 and 
 the marks of Copenhagen or Augsburg; they are still used on solemn 
 occasions; before the chimney in the southern end, in which still stands 
 
The collection of Venetian glass. IO9 
 
 an iron-Stove with the date of 1721, a silver fire-screen and two silver 
 heat- reflectors with the cipher of Christian V. Before the other chimney 
 in the northern end a canopy covered with velvet, under which the 
 coronation chairs of the king and the queetj. The king's coronation 
 chair is composed of narwhale-horn and adorned with eight allegorical 
 metal figures; uppermost a ball, under which on the coronation day i^ 
 placed a precious amethyst, preserved in the regalia-room, instead of the 
 piece of rock crystal by which it is commonly replaced; this corona- 
 tion chair was used the first time in 1671 at the anointment of Chri- 
 stian V. The coronation chair of the queen is somewhat younger, ha- 
 ving been used the first time in 173 1 at the coronation of queen Sophia 
 Magdalen; it is covered with solid silver and partly gilt; on the canopy 
 two prostrate figures, representing Fear of God and Charity, with the name 
 of Jehova between them; the seat and the back are covered with silver 
 brocade and under the seat is a cross-barred foot of cast silver in em- 
 bossed and gilt workmanship. Before the coronation chairs are standing 
 three silver lions, representing the arms of Denmark: the Sound, the 
 great Belt and the little Belt; they were made by Ferdinand Kiiblich 
 and were used the first time in 1670 at the funeral of Frede- 
 rik III; afterwards they have been used at anointments, royal funerals 
 and on similar occasions. At the other end of the hall the royal bap- 
 tismal font of gilt silver with a representation of the baptism of Christ 
 in embossed workmanship in the bottom of the dish; this piece, to 
 which belong two candlesticks, a dish and a can, all of embossed gold, 
 preserved among the regalia, was brought to Rosenborg in 1720 and is 
 still used. Under the baptismal font an oriental carpet. 
 
 The collection of Venetian glass. 
 
 The tower-room, which contains this rich collection was arranged in 
 the year 1714 by the chief of the fire-brigade Fuchs. The collection of 
 glass, which was presented to Frederik IV January ist 1709 by the doge 
 Aloysio Mocenigo II of Venise, consists of between 7 and 800 pieces of the 
 greatest rarity. In the printed representation ol this room is seen a ceiling- 
 piece, which was removed when the room was restored in 1886 — 87, 
 an old interesting stucco-ceiling of rafters of the time of Frederik III 
 having been discovered behind it. The marble chimney also dates from 
 the period of the said king. The restoration of this magnificent room, 
 which has taken place in the present days, is performed with great taste 
 by the glass merchant to the Royal Court Mr. Fritzsche of Copenhagen. 
 
The collection of Venetian glass. 
 
The china-room. 
 
112 The china-room. 
 
 The china-room. 
 
 This room contains a precious collection of Chinese, Japanese, 
 Indian, Dresden, French and Danish porcelain and some pieces of Swed- 
 ish china. The Chinese and Japanese porcelain partly dates from the 
 time of Frederik IV and Christian VI; some of these objects bear the 
 cipher of Frederik IV, others those of Christian VI and queen Sophia 
 Magdalen^ or their arms. From a somewhat later time date some 
 pieces which are of a certain historical interest e. g. two Indian blue 
 and white painted plates with the cipher of Frederik V and the date of 
 1750 besides a representation of the Calvinistic church in Copenhagen 
 and an inscription alluding to the tricentenary jubilee of the house of 
 Oldenburg, two Indian plates with inscriptions alluding to the naturali- 
 zation, a set with the name of queen Juliana Maria and a representation 
 of the equestrian statue of Frederik V at Amalienborg, a punch-bowl 
 with a representation of the church of our Saviour at Christianshavn, 
 another with a picture of the wharf and the rope-yard of Peter Appleby 
 at Copenhagen. Amongst the Dresden china some pieces of the oldest 
 porcelain from the manufactory of Bottger: three small scent-bottles, 
 two bowls, a death's head, from the eye- hole of which a worm is creep- 
 ing forth, a relief representing Judith with the head of Holophernes, 
 which piece was brought to the Cabinet of Art in 1733; these pieces 
 are of brown china; furthermore a small tea- cup of dark brown china. 
 The greater part of the Dresden china, however, belongs to a set from 
 the time of Frederik V, probably the same, which was presented 
 to him as a gift from Augustus III of Poland in 175 1. A portrait of 
 Frederik V painted on china was made in 1752 by Topfer. The French 
 china mostly belongs to a set of Sevres presented to Christian VII 
 by Lewis XV in 1768. On the same occasion Christian VII received 
 three pictures on china representing: an offering to Bacchus, copy from 
 a picture by Pierre, a scene of camp, and a Cupid aiming his arrow, a 
 copy from a picture by Charles Vanloo. The two flower paintings, on the 
 contrary, date from a later time, having been painted in 1824 at Sevres 
 by the flower painter J. L. Jensen from original pictures by van Os. 
 The Danish china essentially consists of the Flora Danica set, supposed 
 originally to have been ordered by the empress Catherine II of Russia, 
 but in the year 1803 it was bought from the manufactory of Copen- 
 hagen by Christian VII; on each piece is painted a Danish plant and 
 on the back side the Latin name of the plant is to be read. Further- 
 more we notice a biscuit bust of queen Juliana Maria, made in 1781 
 
The china-room. 113 
 
 by Luplau, a bust of the hereditary prince Frederik, also supposed to 
 have been made by Luplau, and a punch -bowl with a representation 
 of the battle in the roads of Copenhagen April 2d 1801. By the 
 window a flower painting on porcelain. The few pieces of Swed- 
 ish china in the possession of the museum, are of the manufactory of 
 Marieberg, 
 
 Finally we notice a washing table of delf made in the town ot 
 Sleswick. 
 
 Under the ceiling hangs a twelve-branched chandelier pf Chinese 
 enamel corresponding to that in the Chinese room. 
 
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