Living with Indonesian Art: The Frits Liefkes Collection Art As the demand for spices

As the demand for spices grew

Written by renown writer Dr

This publication offers a pioneering comparative study of domestic interiors in two key colonial outposts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC): the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia (modern-day Jakarta)

partly based on the latest art historical research

Publication date: 1980

Living with Indonesian Art: The Frits Liefkes Collection Art As the demand for spicesFrits Liefkes (1930 2010) lived with Indonesian art. His house in The Hague was full of it. Bought almost entirely at auctions and from art dealers in the Netherlands during a period of four decades, on his death he bequeathed his collection to Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde in Leiden. This book presents some of his most beautiful and interesting objects. Reflecting his special interests, golden jewellery and wonderful textiles are particularly well