Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in Earlet Line-Cut DSC01501
Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience, from Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in. Earlet Line-Cut.
Attractive miniature, full of floral patterns. A glorious image for a jigsaw, beautifully line cut but only semi-interlocking at best (flipping it required a lot of repair work). During the build there were lots of changes of pace, but the number of separate patterned areas meant the 860pc were divided and conquered without too much trouble. Very satisfying.
I found a useful website about the artwork:
art-in-space.blogspot.com/2015/05/anonymous-darbar-of-cor...
From 1605 to about 1825, the Dutch had settlements and trading posts in India (also referred as 'Dutch India'). All along the west and east coast of India there were Dutch trading posts, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was entirely in Dutch hands from 1656 to 1796. The miniature shows the court (darbar) of Cornelis van den Bogaerde, head of Dutch trading post in Hyderabad in the Golconda Sultanate. Golconda was an important staple market for the Dutch V.O.C. (East India Company) an items like leather, iron, diamonds, cotton blankets were bought here by the Dutch. Cornelis van den Bogaerde, in French style clothing, is holding a meeting here with some local Hindu merchants. Behind Cornelis stands a Indonesian servant, also in Western clothing, who holds a fan of peacock feathers and a branch from a fruit tree (an allusion to the origins of the surname of Cornelis van den Bogaerde (Dutch for an orchard). Because of civil unrest in Golconda and resulting the fall of the Golconda Sultanate, trading here began to diminish from 1693 onward. In 1733 the trading post was abandoned. Painting from 1687.
Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in Earlet Line-Cut DSC01501
Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience, from Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in. Earlet Line-Cut.
Attractive miniature, full of floral patterns. A glorious image for a jigsaw, beautifully line cut but only semi-interlocking at best (flipping it required a lot of repair work). During the build there were lots of changes of pace, but the number of separate patterned areas meant the 860pc were divided and conquered without too much trouble. Very satisfying.
I found a useful website about the artwork:
art-in-space.blogspot.com/2015/05/anonymous-darbar-of-cor...
From 1605 to about 1825, the Dutch had settlements and trading posts in India (also referred as 'Dutch India'). All along the west and east coast of India there were Dutch trading posts, Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was entirely in Dutch hands from 1656 to 1796. The miniature shows the court (darbar) of Cornelis van den Bogaerde, head of Dutch trading post in Hyderabad in the Golconda Sultanate. Golconda was an important staple market for the Dutch V.O.C. (East India Company) an items like leather, iron, diamonds, cotton blankets were bought here by the Dutch. Cornelis van den Bogaerde, in French style clothing, is holding a meeting here with some local Hindu merchants. Behind Cornelis stands a Indonesian servant, also in Western clothing, who holds a fan of peacock feathers and a branch from a fruit tree (an allusion to the origins of the surname of Cornelis van den Bogaerde (Dutch for an orchard). Because of civil unrest in Golconda and resulting the fall of the Golconda Sultanate, trading here began to diminish from 1693 onward. In 1733 the trading post was abandoned. Painting from 1687.