Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires

Boxes, Cases, and Necessaires

Author: Suzi Love

Publisher: Suzi Love

Published: 2018-08-31

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13:

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Boxes, Cases, Etui, Necessaire and everything else that was used to carry essential items for travel, sewing, medicine, writing, and toiletries. Craftsmen created containers of precious metals, leather, and silks and decorated them with jewels and engraving to make exquisite and expensive items as well as practical carrying cases.


To My Dear Pieternelletje

To My Dear Pieternelletje

Author: Bea Brommer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9004293329

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To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.