Box of the Dutch West India Company, Jean Saint (attributed to), 1749 box The rectangular box, with rounded corners, has a loose lid. Soil, walls and lid are made of turtle, caught in profiled golden edges. The lid contains a gold clog in which white stones, around which a scene with Mercury as a god of the trade in the middle, to him a woman rinsing gold with her to the right of her a scene with gold seekers, and to him a man wearing an elephant stand , with a scene left on the coast on the left in which the trade in a slave is depicted. In the middle at the top the coat of arms of William IV
Box of the Dutch West India Company, Jean Saint (attributed to), 1749 box The rectangular box, with rounded corners, has a loose lid. Soil, walls and lid are made of turtle, caught in profiled golden edges. The lid contains a gold clog in which white stones, around which a scene with Mercury as a god of the trade in the middle, to him a woman rinsing gold with her to the right of her a scene with gold seekers, and to him a man wearing an elephant stand , with a scene left on the coast on the left in which the trade in a slave is depicted. In the middle at the top the coat of arms of William IV of Oranjenassau, Stadholder of the Dutch Republic. The flat soil is inlaid in gold Piqué with a rectangular map of the West African coast between Senegal and Angola with the Africa inscription (partially renewed the gold). A symmetrical golden shield has been applied to each of the four vaulted walls with the image of a fort within a frame of C-Voluten with leaves, rocailles and flowers. Amsterdam gold (metal).. velvet (fabric weave) rocaille ornament. maps of separate countries or regions. slavery; serfs and the enslaved Ghana. Netherlands
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