Thursday 13 September 2018
Location: Auditorium Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum will organize an international two-day symposium on the occasion of the exhibition Kwab. Dutch Design in the Age of Rembrandt, that is to be held at the Rijksmuseum. The exhibition showcases the most important examples of objects featuring kwab– or auricular ornament, a wonderfully curious seventeenth-century phenomenon characterized by organic and fantastical forms. First developed in the works of the silversmiths Paulus and Adam van Vianen, it later found expression across a whole range of decorative arts.
12:45-13:15 Registration
13:15-13:20 Welcome by Taco Dibbits – General Director
13:20-13:25 Introduction by Robert van Langh – Head of the Department of Conservation
Session 1
13:25-13:50 Rob Erdmann (Rijksmuseum/University of Amsterdam) – On filming Adam van Vianen’s ewer (title TBA)
13:50-14:15 Tessa Murdoch (Victoria and Albert Museum) – Virtuouso chasing: Cooqus and the Van Vianen Tradition
14:15-14:40 Huub Baija (Rijksmuseum) – Old and new research on auricular gilding
14:40-15:00 Discussion
Session 2
15:30-15:55 Jan Dorscheid (Rijksmuseum) – Two carved auricular banisters: wooden foundry patterns or unique craftwork
15:55-16:20 Arie Pappot (Rijksmuseum/University of Amsterdam) – Beeldsnijders and Geelgieters, the use of wooden foundry patterns in the Netherlands
16:20-16:45 Paul van Duin (Rijksmuseum) – Dressed in black. Technical aspects of mid- seventeenth-century French ebony cabinets
16:45-16:55 Discussion 16:55-17:00
Closing remarks by Reinier Baarsen 17.00-18.00
Drinks
For more information and registration: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/symposiums/symposium-kwab-new-discoveries