‘We really wanted to find out the origin of the objects,’ says curator Cornelis van der Bas. ‘Wilhelm II is a loaded person from German history, so we thought an investigation was necessary.’
‘As far as we know, there is no looted art found amongst the objects examined, or objects that are requested back by countries of origin’, says curator Van der Bas. ‘But of six Chinese lacquer panels, we do not yet know how they came into the possession of the emperor.’
