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Henry Van den Bergh

Also known as: Henry Van den Bergh; primary name: Van den Bergh, Henry; other name: Bergh, Henry Van den
Details: individual; collector; British; Male
Life dates: 1853-1937
Biography: (The 'v' of 'Van' is capitalised) FSA. Industrialist born in Oss in the Netherlands, moved to London in 1870 to work in the family margarine business. This merged with Lever Brothers to become Unilever in 1929. Member of the Executive Committee of the National Art Collections Fund (q.v.) in the 1910s-1920s. Major donor, through the National Art Collections Fund to most Departments of the British Museum and of Dutch tiles to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The National Art Collections Fund hold an extract of his will, which states that his children (Col Donald Van den Bergh, d.1949; Duncan Van den Bergh, Mrs S. Roskill, d.1983; and Mrs Dorrit Talbot) were to draw lots for his art works, which would then be held by that child for life and following their death, to be distributed by the Trustees of the Van den Bergh Family Trust to the National Gallery, the British Museum, the V&A, the Tate and the Art Fund, entirely at the discretion of the Trustees.

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albarello

Museum number: 1915,0609.4 |
Cultures/periods: x23175 Mamluk dynasty |
Production date: 14thC-15thC |
Production place: Made in:Syria

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.19 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Aschach

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.18 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Aschach

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.13 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altheim

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.3 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Alberndorf

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.5 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.22 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Bischofstetten

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.17 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Aschach

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.20 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Bischofstetten

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.4 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Alberndorf

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.12 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altheim

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.292 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1922 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.293 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.288 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.285 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1922 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.290 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.8 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.11 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altheim

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.295 |
Authority: BIOG106666 Issuer:Deutsche Reichsbahn |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Germany

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.1 |
Authority: BIOG103175 Issuer:Austro-Hungarian Bank |
Production date: 1922 |
Production place: Issued in:Austria

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.7 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.6 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.9 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.291 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.10 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Altenfelden

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.2 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Alberndorf

banknote; notgeld

Museum number: 1926,0815.21 |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Bischofstetten

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.287 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1922 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.289 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1923 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.294 |
Authority: BIOG114256 Issuer:Reichsschuldenverwaltung |
Production date: 1920 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

banknote

Museum number: 1926,0815.286 |
Authority: BIOG114254 Issuer:Reichsbank |
Production date: 1922 |
Production place: Issued in:Berlin (city)

bottle

Museum number: 1928,0721.13 |
Cultures/periods: x52008 Ayyubid dynasty |
Production date: 13thC |
Production place: Made in:Syria

bowl

Museum number: 1947,0515.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.5 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1947,0515.2 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1200-1220 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1947,0515.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1200-1220 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1925,1130.3 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1915,0609.2 |
Cultures/periods: x23294 Timurid dynasty |
Production date: 15thC |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.219 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.14 |
Cultures/periods: x23294 Timurid dynasty |
Production date: 15thC |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1915,0609.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.222 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1200-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.4 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1200-1250 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.4 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.10 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1201-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.224 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1947,0515.4 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Iran

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.213 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.2 |
Cultures/periods: x52008 Ayyubid dynasty |
Production date: 13thC

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1150-1220 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0314.3 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 12thC |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.7 |
Cultures/periods: x25040 Ilkhanid dynasty |
Production date: 1275-1300 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.216 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 12thC-13thC |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0314.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1150-1250 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1947,0515.5 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Iran

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.2 |
Cultures/periods: x22966 Abbasid dynasty |
Production date: 9thC-10thC |
Production place: Made in:Mesopotamia

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.12 |
Cultures/periods: x25040 Ilkhanid dynasty |
Production date: 1275-1325 |
Production place: Made in:Sultanabad

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.11 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1201-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1914,0318.1 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1175-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Rayy

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.225 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.214 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.223 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl; rattle

Museum number: Am1909,1218.218 |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl; rattle

Museum number: Am1909,1218.221 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.217 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: Am1909,1218.220 |
Cultures/periods: x72432 Moche |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Trujillo (Peru)

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.1 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 13thC

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.16 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 12thC-13thC |
Production place: Made in:Zanjan (city)

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.5 |
Cultures/periods: x52008 Ayyubid dynasty |
Production date: 13thC

bowl

Museum number: 1923,0517.6 |
Cultures/periods: x41057 Seljuq dynasty |
Production date: 1170-1225 |
Production place: Made in:Kashan

bowl

Museum number: 1928,0721.17 |
Cultures/periods: x25040 Ilkhanid dynasty |
Production date: 1300-1350 |
Production place: Made in:Iran

box

Museum number: 1960,0201.2 |
Producer name: BIOG65981 Made by:Charles-Alexandre Bouillerot |
Production date: 1778-1779 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

box

Museum number: 1960,0201.1 |
Producer name: BIOG67448 Made by:Mathieu Coiny |
Production date: 1763-1764 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

cloak

Museum number: Am1933,1216.9.a-b |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:Nazca

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2138

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2113 |
Production date: 727

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.1938

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.1936

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2065 |
Production date: 718

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2050

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2117 |
Production date: 727

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.1939

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2071 |
Production date: 720

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2099 |
Production date: 701

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2049

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2075 |
Production date: 720

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2088 |
Production date: 722

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2076

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2119 |
Production date: 725

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2070

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2060

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2087 |
Production date: 721

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.1958

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2124 |
Production date: 734

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2116 |
Production date: 730

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2132

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2177 |
Production date: 771 |
Production place: Minted in:Delhi (district)

coin

Museum number: 1911,0709.2092 |
Production date: 725