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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4180795, member: 2844"]Yes, it is Batavia ware, Chinese Export ware for Southeast Asia. Batavia is one of the old names for Jakarta, Java, where most of this ware was exported to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not Batavian though, that would suggest Dutch ware from the Roman era. The Batavians were a Dutch tribe who fought against the Romans. They came to be a symbol of Dutch freedom from the Spanish etc.</p><p>That is why the Dutch East India Company (VOC) named their capital Batavia, thwarting Spanish and Portuguese colonisers meant no money would go to Spain, and the Spanish would have trouble funding the war against the new Dutch Republic.</p><p>Of course the local Sundanese didn't think of Batavia as a term of freedom at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>We don't call this Chinese Export ware Batavia though, we call it capucijner, after the capuchin monks who wear brown.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4180795, member: 2844"]Yes, it is Batavia ware, Chinese Export ware for Southeast Asia. Batavia is one of the old names for Jakarta, Java, where most of this ware was exported to. Not Batavian though, that would suggest Dutch ware from the Roman era. The Batavians were a Dutch tribe who fought against the Romans. They came to be a symbol of Dutch freedom from the Spanish etc. That is why the Dutch East India Company (VOC) named their capital Batavia, thwarting Spanish and Portuguese colonisers meant no money would go to Spain, and the Spanish would have trouble funding the war against the new Dutch Republic. Of course the local Sundanese didn't think of Batavia as a term of freedom at all. We don't call this Chinese Export ware Batavia though, we call it capucijner, after the capuchin monks who wear brown.[/QUOTE]
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