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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 253315, member: 2844"]Yes, for French Colonial furniture you have to go to the former French colonies. And then there were the Spanish in the Philippines of course.</p><p>But when we're talking Java and other parts of Indonesia, it is Dutch influence. Other European countries, notably the Portuguese, had trading posts in the 16th and 17th centuries. But there is no distinct Portuguese influence on colonial furniture in Indonesia, and certainly no French.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 253315, member: 2844"]Yes, for French Colonial furniture you have to go to the former French colonies. And then there were the Spanish in the Philippines of course. But when we're talking Java and other parts of Indonesia, it is Dutch influence. Other European countries, notably the Portuguese, had trading posts in the 16th and 17th centuries. But there is no distinct Portuguese influence on colonial furniture in Indonesia, and certainly no French.[/QUOTE]
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