jdmccafferty, 8 months ago

Export lacquer work from #Japan was made to order in Kyoto.

This box was made 1630-40. It belonged to Maria van Diemen, wife of Anton van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, 1636-1645.

The Japan trade was a Dutch monopoly.

(V&A Museum, London)

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