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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 253002, member: 2844&quot;]Peranakan culture wasn&#039;t just Singapore. It was along the straits of the spice route, from the Malacca Strait, passing Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore, Java, and on to the Madura Strait between Java and Madura. The Straits were the hub of the spice route, so Chinese traders have settled along those shores for centuries. I have distant Peranakan ancestors from Tuban in East Java, who were accepted into the royal court of the Javanese Majapahit empire.</p><p>If this vanity table is teak, it could very well have been made in Java. East Java was, and still is, the prime source of teak in Indonesia. And Javanese carving is more elegant and frilly than Sumatran. The best carving is from the island of Madura, which is considered East Javanese. Like coastal Java, Madura has a large Chinese population.</p><p>Right now I am assuming it could be Peranakan, but Dutch colonial furniture can have those elaborate carvings as well, and a vanity table is a European tradition, rather than East Asian. To complicate matters, the Indonesian and Peranakan upper classes adopted European furniture as well.</p><p>Dutch colonial:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torkild.com%2FArchief%2FA-052-2-Dutch-colonial-bench.jpg&amp;sp=651bb038ca07461ae9541473adb79597" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F9c%2F87%2F60%2F9c876056f039216efb6170ff601be738.jpg&amp;sp=cd2537c4380d8dafc7bad7423bc872f0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since the Peranakan and Dutch communities and the Javanese upper classes were in close contact with one another, the styles have influenced each other. For instance, the Javanese women&#039;s dress of kain-kebaya was adopted and adapted by Dutch colonial women (made more sense than hot corsets), and after another adaption became known as the Peranakan Nyonya-kebaya style.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both Peranakan and Dutch Colonial furniture are collectible. I would have to see more detail of the carving to know which style it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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