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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4623703, member: 2844"]I think we should also take into consideration the quality of carving and aging of wood and cane, or lack of aging.</p><p>While they are all good examples of colonial style furniture, it is important to remember that these are still made in Indonesia, and the emphasis in the term "colonial style" should be on "style", so not colonial era.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I join the others in saying, this is a colonial style Indonesian sofa, made in post-colonial Indonesia any time after 1980. It was most likely made in East Java (Pasuruan) or nearby Madura.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indonesia was a Dutch colony, not British, and Indonesia is not India or Jamaica either. So the style is not Anglo-Indian or Anglo-Caribbean, but a general colonial style.</p><p>Since the sofa was made in Indonesia, you could even call it Dutch colonial.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4623703, member: 2844"]I think we should also take into consideration the quality of carving and aging of wood and cane, or lack of aging. While they are all good examples of colonial style furniture, it is important to remember that these are still made in Indonesia, and the emphasis in the term "colonial style" should be on "style", so not colonial era. So I join the others in saying, this is a colonial style Indonesian sofa, made in post-colonial Indonesia any time after 1980. It was most likely made in East Java (Pasuruan) or nearby Madura. Indonesia was a Dutch colony, not British, and Indonesia is not India or Jamaica either. So the style is not Anglo-Indian or Anglo-Caribbean, but a general colonial style. Since the sofa was made in Indonesia, you could even call it Dutch colonial.;)[/QUOTE]
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