If an object is "Made by Artist/maker unknown, Dutch Assayed by the assay master of Kingston, Jamaica" does that mean it was made in the Netherlands and imported to Jamaica for trading, or was it made in Jamaica and then traded by a dutch guy?

@Jo in philamuseum.org/collection/obj which uses that phrasing the geography metadata further down the page specifies “Probably made in Netherlands, Europe”

@Satsuma Oh word missed that line! That is exactly what i was looking at too.

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@Jo ha yeah i thought there was a chance that we’d found the same listing! glad i could provide such a definitive answer then :)

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