Kakiemon elephants
late 17th century · Resource
A pair of enamelled porcelain elephants made near Arita, Japan, in the prized Kakiemon style and exported to Europe by the Dutch East India Company. They reflect Edo-period Japan's luxury porcelain trade.
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Around 1675
- English Civil War (1642)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Palace of Versailles built (1661)
- Thirty Years' War ends (1648)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1725)
- Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral (1675)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)