Interior décor in a Peranakan mansion

Elaborate decoration just off the entrance hall of this Peranankan mansion was psychologically designed to impress visitors with the wealth and hence power of the head of the household, almost invariably a merchant with keep historical roots in the community.

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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