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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 373017, member: 2844&quot;]Spanish Colonial Peruvian style, I think you&#039;ve nailed it, Walter.</p><p><br /></p><p>There certainly is, and I saw Spanish style carved leather when I was in Peru. Peru has a thriving Spanish colonial inspired craft industry, and the chest you want to buy could very well be made by craftspeople who work in that colonial style. In which case it is not Spanish made, so you can buy it if the price is right.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> It is a very nice chest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am surprised that you equate objects made in the 20th century with cheap quality. There are still good craftspeople on either side of the pond, and as far as machine made metal goes, I know several local blacksmiths here in the Netherlands who make beautiful antique style metal for chests and furniture. I have seen good blacksmiths in Spain and Peru as well. The same goes for carving, construction, any kind of craft really.</p><p>We may live in an age of computers and machines, but people are still people, with the same potential as those who came before us. Fewer people use that potential, and some prefer to make cheap rubbish for tourists with bad taste, but that doesn&#039;t mean that 20th or 21st century crafts are rubbish per se.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: </p><p>Since you mentioned parrots, they were depicted a lot in Europe as well, here is one on a mid 19th century dish from Hindeloopen, Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands:</p><p><img src="https://www.antiekvalentijn.com/VA%20foto%27s/voor-1900/groot/kleingoed-1840.197%20Hindelooper%20schaaltje%20DETAIL.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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