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Economic Botany Collections
South and Southeast Asian Lacquerware
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| Writing desk |
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In 1929, Colonel Sinclair donated to Kew an exquisite lacquered writing desk made of the wood of Gluta renghas . It is possible that the desk might have been a gift from Edina Constance van Dort, with whom Sinclair might have been acquainted while he was in Malaya . |
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