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Detail Puzzlewood no665 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in Cut c June 2018 DSC01514

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Puzzlewood no665 cJune 2018 860pc Cornelis Van Den Bogaerde Gives An Audience, from Golconda Miniature c1687 21x16in. Earlet Line-Cut.

 

Cornelis van den Bogaerde, head of Dutch trading post in Hyderabad in the Golconda Sultanate, 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 - perhaps apricots - (an allusion to the origins of the surname of Cornelis van den Bogaerde (Dutch for an orchard).

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Uploaded on April 23, 2024
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