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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 253029, member: 360&quot;]The Peranakan,of which AJ &amp; and I are both descendant, lived in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. THeir furniture and other things (clothes, jewelry etc etc etc) all have a very distinct style. Once you&#039;re familiar with it, you&#039;ll start noticing it everywhere. Peranakan furniture would definitely command a premium, but only for very good pieces. And that&#039;s saying a lot. As AJ says, both the Javanese-Chinese and Straits Chinese (Peranakan) communities in Indonesia &amp; Malaya/Singapore, heavily influenced each other. there was a lot of crossover.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peranakan furniture I&#039;ve seen was often richly embellished, carved and ornamented, with stuff like Mother of Pearl, and slabs or sheets of marble and such, and usually of dark or medium-coloured woods. Some of it was European-influenced, due toBritish &amp; Dutch contact in the 1600s-1900s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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