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| Keywords: Dutch - Cabinet with Chinese and American Motifs - Walters 6589.jpg 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 Asian by virtue of their long embroidered coats with sashes The headwear including feather headdresses is completely fanciful Some figures are actually Native Americans adapted from engravings of 1584 reporting English explorations of Virginia On the exterior side panels are remarkable adaptations of engravings recording a French expedition of 1564 to Florida Young Floridians play competitive games while beautiful birds imaginative renderings of the bird of paradise from the East Indies swoop around them The maker surely hoped that his customers would just enjoy the exotic details between 1690 1700 Baroque wood pine with paint and gilt Upper part cm 82 5 95 accession number 65 89 22673 Barra Foundation Inc date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum June 1974 by gift Gift of the Barra Foundation Inc 1974 place of origin Netherlands Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Exoticism in European culture 17th-century furniture Exotic decorative artefacts Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review | ||||
