FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

This jati or teak centre table, demonstrates the English influence on Dutch colonial furniture, which bacame significant at the end of the 18th century. A similar development appeared in the Netherlands, where English furniture designs, such as Hepplewhite's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholseter's Guide (1788) and Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book (1794), undoubtably became an important source of inspiration to cabinet-makers in this period. This English influx was probably more important in the Dutch overseas territories than in Holland itself, due to the proximity of important English colonies, and increased again after the English Interregnum in Java, which took place between 1811 and 1816, (J. Veenendaal, Furniture from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India, Delft, 1985, p. 131)
A virtually identical centre table, with scrolling supports flanking a central foliate-wrapped shaft above a concave-sided platform, is illustrated in J. Veenendaal, ibid, p. 155.

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