Tea party in a European house in Batavia, 1779-1785. The European woman, seated on the right, is visiting the meztizo woman wearing a kebaja, (Southeast Asian dress). Flanked by slaves - the woman on the left holds an open sirih (betel nut) box. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, dl. 2 (1808), p. 23.

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