The informative text is accompanied by rarely seen images from museums and private collections, offering fresh insights into these iconic examples.
Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis (born 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch art historian who specialized in European tapestries and Indian trade textiles. In 2009 she retired from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where she had been Curator of Textiles since 1992. Previously she was Curator of Decorative Art and Design at the State Owned Art Collections in The Hague and liaison officer for Dutch museums at the Ministry of Culture. Books of which she was (co-)author or main contributor include Sits. Oost-West Relaties in Textiel (Chintz. East-West Relations in Textiles) (1987), Sitsen uit Indian/Indian Chintzes (1996), European Tapestries in the Rijksmuseum (2004) and Asian Splendor. Company Art in the Rijksmuseum (2011). She has also published about Sri Lankan ivory carvings made for Dutch customers between 1650 and 1700.
