Box of the Dutch West India Company, Jean Saint (attributed to), 1749 Canvas Print
The rectangular box, with rounded corners, has a loose lid. Bottom, walls and lid are of turtle, encased in profiled golden edges. The lid contains a nugget in which white stones, around which a scene with Mercury as God of Commerce in the middle, to his right a woman washing gold with a scene with prospectors to her right, and to his left a man wearing an elephant stand, with to his left on the coast a scene depicting the trade in enslaved people. In the middle at the top the coat of arms of William IV of OranjeNassau, stadholder of the Dutch Republic. The flat bottom is inlaid in gold piqué with a rectangular map of the West African coast between Senegal and Angola with the inscription AFRICA (the gold partially renewed). On each of the four vaulted walls is a symmetrical gold shield with the image of a fortress within a frame of C-voluts with leaves, seed beads and flowers.
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