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# Cabinet

The ivory inlaid designs on this cabinet are typical of a type of high-quality furniture made in India under Portuguese patronage in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Such cabinets were highly prized in Europe for their exotic materials - ebony and ivory - and for the quality of their workmanship.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1600–1650 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.608-1901](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.608-1901) · Pramāṇa
