For Princes or Maids? - Provenance, form and value of serpentine at Skokloster castle Greger Sundin To cite this version: Greger Sundin. For Princes or Maids? - Provenance, form and value of serpentine at Skokloster castle. 2011. hprints-00556194 HAL Id: hprints-00556194 https://hal-hprints.archives-ouvertes.fr/hprints-00556194 Preprint submitted on 15 Jan 2011 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. For Princes or Maids? Provenance, form and value of serpentine at Skokloster castle Greger Sundin Konstvetenskapliga institutionen vid Stockholms universitet HT 2010 ABSTRACT Department: Department of Art History at Stockholm University Address: Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm Phone nr: +46 (0)8 16 20 00 Tutor: Dr Mårten Snickare, Department of Art History Title: For Princes or Maids? Provenance, form and value of serpentine at Skokloster castle Author: Greger Sundin Salagatan 40b S-753 26 Uppsala Sweden E-mail:
[email protected] Web: http://www.gregersundin.se Semester: Autumn 2010 Level: Bachelor Master (1 year) Master (2 years) Licentiate Doctoral Skokloster castle, Sweden, houses a group of more than fifty objects in serpentine stone, acquired during the 17th century. The group is generally called Wrangels fältservis [Wrangel’s field service], referring to field marshall Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-1676).