This two-door cupboard is European in form, with Javanese decorative elements. The two nagas with intertwining tails at the top above the carved openwork foliage are a favourite Southeast Asian motif. They may have been intended to symbolically protect the contents of the cabinet. This refined cupboard is an example of the furniture produced in Indonesia, mainly in Java, for Dutch colonial clients. This one is especially rare since, more commonly, they are gilded or painted in polychrome colours.
