Ceremonial knife with sheath, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1800

Identification

Title(s)

Ceremonial knife with sheath

Object type

machete

Object number

AK-MAK-195-1

Description

Siermes, lemmet rijk bewerkt, incrustaties met verguld brons.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Sri Lanka

Dating

c. 1750 - c. 1800

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

gild

Measurements

length 34.5 cm
length 30 cm × width 5 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase auction collection Wurfbain, 1937)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection J.G. Wurfbain;{Note RMA.} his sale, 16 November 1937, no. 798, fl. 198.10, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Is part of

Ceremonial knife with sheath (AK-MAK-195)

Documentation

Mediaeval Sinhalese art, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, cat.nr. 80
Oosterse schatten: 4000 jaar Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 572
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 219
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Aziatische kunst in particuliere en openbare collecties in Nederland, cat.nr. 313
Rose Schubert, Rukada : Puppenspiel in Sri Lanka : das Ähälepola Nadagama, das Spiel vom Sturz des letzten Königs von Kandy, 1816 : Ausstellung des Puppentheatermuseums und des Staatlichen Museums für Völkerkunde vom 7. Februar bis 28. Juni 1986, München 1986, cat. nr. 80.

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