A lacquered pine wood bowl, so-called 'nap', from Riga. Riga-bowls are also named Dantziger Archangelsk or Russian bowls. They were bought by seamen in Riga and at other sea-ports at the Eastern Sea. Provenance: formery in the Bokma room, Douwe Egberts Museum, Joure, The Netherlands, Inventory number BL22. Second half 19th century -H. 4,5 cm, D. 9,7 cm, two cracks-
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