chstyle, there is often, especially amongst the earlierwork, a distinctly ungallic flavour. Portugal is 295 OLD CAPE COLONY said to have brought into Europe Indo-Portuguesefurniture from the Indies. But it seems to datefrom the time when Holland also had a footingabroad, and if so, this so-called… … VERY OLD COLONIAL MADE ARMOIRE. description, and chairs and settees of the kindwere made for the Dutch at Surat, Nagapatamand elsewhere. Even before the English Companythe Hollanders brought clocks and corner cup-boards to the East to be lacquered, but I neversaw any of this work at the Cape,…
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