Two Water Vessels, anonymous, c. 1300 - c. 1500

Identification

Title(s)

Two Water Vessels
Lamp or Spouted Vessel in the Form of a Man Seated on an Elephant

Object type

lamp

Object number

AK-MAK-268

Description

Lamp, brons, reservoir in de vorm van een olifant met asceet als berijder.

Creation

Artist

brazier: anonymous

Place

Oost-Java

Dating

c. 1300 - c. 1500

Material and Technique

Physical features

bronze

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

height 20.5 cm × width 24.9 cm × depth 12.3 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase heirs F.L. Broekveldt, 1940)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Mr F.L. Broekveldt;{Note RMA.}…; from his heirs, fl. 175, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1940;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asian art, cat.nr. 37
The sculpture of Indonesia, cat.nr. 87
Divine bronzes : ancient Indonesian bronzes A.D. 600 to 1600 : catalogue of the exhibition organised in collaboration with the Society of Friend of Asiatic Art held in the Department of Asiatic Art, p. 135, cat.nr. 83
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 667
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 308
Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 37
The Berlin Hermit and its Lost Provenance, p. 16
Een gietmal van een oudjavaanse goudsmid
Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, 'Slurven en slagtanden: Gouden oorsieraden uit de Majapahit-periode', Aziatische Kunst 30/4 (2000), pp. 20-33.
Th. van Erp, 'Aanwinst voor het Museum van Aziatische Kunst van eenige Hindoe-Javaansche Ceremonieele lampen', MBK (1941) 18, p. 102-114.

Persistent URL

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