Storyline
The story of a global chair and its Dutch-American owner
European design, Chinese maker, and a Dutch-American buyer: this chair is the embodiment of globalization in the 18th century. This is the story of a chair and its owner, who was sent to the Forbidden City in honor of the Qianlong Emperor’s anniversary.
Credits
A story by Koen van der Lijn. As part of The Visual and Material Culture of Exchange in Asia and Europe, 1500-1800 at Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities. Supervised by Anne Gerritsen.