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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 668234, member: 2844&quot;]Which part of the world were you thinking of, Alex? There were colonies all over the globe at different periods in time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rather roughly carved colourful general look is seen in certain Balinese carvings, but they have more colour shading.</p><p>Madurese carvings can have bi-colour shading, like this pedestal, but the carving would be more refined.</p><p>Those are the only two options I can think of in former Dutch colonies.</p><p>I have no idea what either of these cultures would do with a European shaped pedestal, and Dutch colonials or Indonesian nobility wouldn&#039;t have been interested in the rough carving and rather garish colour scheme. After all, what would the neighbours think.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The use of a European shaped pedestal, the charmingly rough, naive carving and vivid colours would all make sense in Latin America imo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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