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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1345831, member: 2844"]Indo-Portuguese or Indo-Dutch. The two styles are closely related, because the Dutch kicked the Portuguese out of some of their Indian colonies.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> The craftsmen continued to manufacture similar styles for colonial use.</p><p>Ebony furniture is usually called Indo-Portuguese, the other woods Indo-Dutch. It is impossible to draw such a precise line between the two though.</p><p>Indian craftsmen also introduced the style in Java, so it could have been made there.</p><p>It is a real beauty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1345831, member: 2844"]Indo-Portuguese or Indo-Dutch. The two styles are closely related, because the Dutch kicked the Portuguese out of some of their Indian colonies.;) The craftsmen continued to manufacture similar styles for colonial use. Ebony furniture is usually called Indo-Portuguese, the other woods Indo-Dutch. It is impossible to draw such a precise line between the two though. Indian craftsmen also introduced the style in Java, so it could have been made there. It is a real beauty.[/QUOTE]
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