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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2982215, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, it is a very Javanese wood, also &#039;exported&#039; to Bali.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>These boxes are typical for the colonial period. Ca 1900 the Dutch began to promote Indonesian crafts. They financed the artists and craftspeople who had lost their Indonesian aristocratic patrons. The artists and craftspeople were encouraged to make objects for European and colonial use. </p><p>Projects were set up in places like Kota Gede - Djokja/Yogya silver, and Jepara - carved small furniture and boxes.</p><p>I have several of these Jepara boxes, including a correspondence box which was sent to my grandmother by a suitor in 1912. To no avail, she married my grandfather.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jepara is now known for its multi layered carvings of scenes from Hindu epics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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