Twenty-one shell shaped bowls 'Een en twintig schilpschalen' in the Cooking kitchen, room D.
Above: Shell shaped bowls, Rijksmuseum inventory number NM 1010-121 A-E photo F4492-3.
Below: Another type of dish, in silver, Dunois Dolls House, Rijksmuseum.
Alternatively but less likely these were small containers or the manufacure of lead white ; the rolled up very thin lead rolls which were oxydized into lead white were called schulpen by Eikelenberg. The container to store the roll in to react with urin were called schilp. The powdered result was schilpwith. Logically this poisonous material should not be around in the kitchen.
Note: Photo Copyright Rijksmuseum Foundation. The Rijksmuseum has graciously assisted in this project Digital Home of Johannes Vermeer. The author was given permission to make a selection in the vast photo archive and this material has been made available by the Rijksmuseum.
Note : This object was part of the Vermeer-inventory as listed by the clerk working for Delft notary public J. van Veen. He made this list on February 29, 1676, in the Thins/Vermeer home located on Oude Langendijk on the corner of Molenpoort. The painter Johannes Vermeer had died there at the end of December 1675. His widow Catherina and their eleven children still lived there with her mother Maria Thins.
The transcription of the 1676 inventory, now in the Delft archives, is based upon its first full publication by A.J.J.M. van Peer, "Drie collecties...", Oud Holland, 1957, pp. 98-103.
This page forms part of a large encyclopedic site on Vermeer and Delft. Research by Drs. Kees Kaldenbach (email). A full presentation is on view at johannesvermeer.info.
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