English-style dining room in a Peranakan mansion

Houses of well-off Peranakan merchants often featured two dining rooms, designed for interacting with different groups. This more elaborate Chinese-style room was used forlarge-scale entertaining and business negotiations.

Welch, Claude Emerson

State University of New York at Buffalo

2017-03

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Peranakan/ Malaysian

Pulau Pinang (Malaysia : State)

Welch-Ludwig Collection

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