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.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1675
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)