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Dutch-colonial five-foot 18th century amboyna wood VOC chest with brass mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch-colonial five-foot amboyna wood VOC chest with brass mounts
Batavia (Jakarta) or Sri Lanka, 18th century
H. 80.5 (including bun-feet) x W. 153 x D. 64.5 cm
The many moves from post to post undertaken by VOC officials in the course of their careers made the chest an indispensable item of furniture in every household and for transport. But to avoid overloading sailing ships with chests of all sizes and forms the Heeren XVII adopted a great number of resolutions regulating the form and seizes of the chests and the number each VOC official was allowed to take. On his repatriation, the Governor General was allowed eighteen large chests, a member of the Council of India ten, a minister of religion two and a carpenter, boatswain, cook’s mate only one smaller chest, about three-quarter the size of the largest chest...
Category
Antique 18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
17th-Century Japanese Namban Lacquer Coffer on French Stand, Possibly by Boulle
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An impressive and large Japanese 'Namban' transition-style lacquer coffer with fine gilt copper mounts on a French Re´gence base, possibly by André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732)
Kyoto, 1640-1650, the base 18th century
?The coffer with shaped cartouches on a nashiji ground on the lid, front and sides, with fine decorations in various techniques: takimaki-e (high relief), tsuke-gaki (drawing with narrow lacquer lines and over sprinkling with gold and silver), usuniku-takamei-e (demi relief), kimekomi (pushed inside) and accents of kirigane (small geometrical metal mosaics). Inside the cartouche on the lid a landscape with volcanos...
Category
Antique 17th Century Japanese Lacquer
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Large Royal Early 17th Century Japanese Lacquer Chest with Gilt-Bronze Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Japanese transitional lacquer chest with gilt-metal mounts
Edo period, early 17th century
The rectangular chest with flat hinged lid decorated in gold, silver, and red ...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Japanese Blanket Chests
Materials
Bronze
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