5. Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

North, Michael

doi:10.1515/9789048519866-007

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“…At the high point of this development in VOC commerce, inhabitants of colonial cities could choose from a wide range of art objects that had been produced in China, Japan, Batavia, India, at the Cape, in Holland and in the rest of Europe (North). 26 Other, often similar forces of mediation are discernible in smaller places such as Galle on Ceylon. According to estate auctions of the second half of the eighteenth century Sinhalese and Muslims, among them interpreters for the Company, Moslem chiefs and Moslem traders acquired tea and related accessories (Japanese tea kettles), playing cards, and prints.…”

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Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia

Kaufmann¹,

North²

2014

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Founded in 2000 as part of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Amsterdam Centre for Study of the Golden Age (Amsterdams Centrum voor de Studie van de Gouden Eeuw) aims to promote the history and culture of the Dutch Republic during the 'long' seventeenth century (c. 1560-1720). The Centre's publications provide an insight into lively diversity and continuing relevance of the Dutch Golden Age. They offer original studies on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Rembrandt to Vondel, from Beeldenstorm (iconoclastic fury) to Ware Vrijheid (True Freedom) and from Batavia to New Amsterdam. Politics, religion, culture, economics, expansion and warfare all come together in the Centre's interdisciplinary setting.

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Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia

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2014

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“…His recent work analyzes inventories of Dutch colonial households in Batavia, the VOC's capital on Java. 16 North, like archeologists Antonia Malan and Jane Close, focused on more affluent households in or near the growing city of Cape Town. 17 Although I was aware of the importance of the porcelain trade and found evidence of plates and serving ware in frontier households, given the relative paucity of porcelain objects in even the most abundant, affluent inventories I analyzed, I had relegated porcelain to the realm of to the urban elite -not the material of frontier life.…”

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