The Toilet of the Princess (from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes) 1690-1715 Attributed to the workshop of John Vanderbank the Elder Flemish During his tenure as governor of the Dutch-controlled area of Brazil, Johan Maurits (1604-1679) commissioned two artists in his service to record the areas wildlife and inhabitants. The resulting works were translated into tapestries for him by 1678; he found them so impressively lifelike that he wrote, "it would be possible, by the tapestries, to see Brazil without crossing the ocean."¹ In contrast, the first English tapestries depicting exotic and foreign scenes were inventive compilations of motifs from the Far East. John Vanderbank, weaver in London, is recorded as having supplied nine pieces in the "Indian Manner" for the decoration of Kensington Palace in the 1690s.² These tapestries are thought to have been of the same type as the present hanging, and if this theory is correct, they would have complemented the vast collection of Asian porcela

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The Toilet of the Princess (from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes) 1690-1715 Attributed to the workshop of John Vanderbank the Elder Flemish During his tenure as governor of the Dutch-controlled area of Brazil, Johan Maurits (1604-1679) commissioned two artists in his service to record the areas wildlife and inhabitants. The resulting works were translated into tapestries for him by 1678; he found them so impressively lifelike that he wrote, "it would be possible, by the tapestries, to see Brazil without crossing the ocean."¹ In contrast, the first English tapestries depicting exotic and foreign scenes were inventive compilations of motifs from the Far East. John Vanderbank, weaver in London, is recorded as having supplied nine pieces in the "Indian Manner" for the decoration of Kensington Palace in the 1690s.² These tapestries are thought to have been of the same type as the present hanging, and if this theory is correct, they would have complemented the vast collection of Asian porcela

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