EVER since the seventeenth hundred the Dutch have found enduring fascination in the ceramic wares of Asia.

EVER since the seventeenth hundred the Dutch have found enduring fascination in the ceramic wares of Asia. This interest currents an especially long-lived and dynamic example in the visual arts of the gentle Countries' function as a crossroads of civilizations It has prompted in cast some fascinating and remarkable instances of what Mary Louise Pratt has famously discussed as transculturation, or still more aptly here I think, what my colleague Sarah Adams at the University of Iowa describes rather as interculturation--to emphasize that the artistic influences that come up from such a global attack run both ways. (1) Dutch scholar C