Cabinet with Chinese and American Motifs

1700-1710 (Baroque)

95 cm 82.5 cm

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This cabinet was made by a Dutch craftsman to imitate the expensive lacquered Chinese and Japanese chests imported by the Dutch East India Company. The painter adapted some motifs, such as the pagodas on the drawer fronts, from Chinese porcelains, but the figures are only Asia...

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22673
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Barra Foundation, Inc., [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, June 1974, by gift.
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