INDONESIA, PROBABLY BATAVIA, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A DUTCH COLONIAL HARDWOOD OCCASIONAL TABLE
INDONESIA, PROBABLY BATAVIA, FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular moulded top above a shaped frieze carved with a various flower sprays, on spirally-turned legs joined by conformig stretchers, on ball feet
47 cm. high x 61 cm. wide x 38 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

This type of decoration, which is called half-relief, was developed at the end of the 17th Century. Around 1680 a new style of ebony and hardwood furniture became fashionable in the Dutch colonies in which large sculpturally-carved flowers were the main decorative motifs.
See also: T. Eliëns ed., Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602-1795, Zwolle, 2002, p. 30-34; and J. Veenendaal, Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, Delft, 1985, p. 47-55.
A centre table of related design was sold Christie's Amsterdam, The Dutch Interior, sale 2430, 29 September 1999, lot 615.

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