Water Vessel
ca. 1875 (made)
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Water vessel without top, called kelalang in Siak. Fluted and chased silver. An incised inscription records that it was the property of the Yam Tuan Mangkubumi of Siak in A.H. 1292 (1875/6 A.D.).
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, chased |
| Brief description | Water vessel (kelalang), chased silver, from Siak, Sumatra, Indonesia, ca. 1875, incised inscription records that it was the property of the Yam Tuan Mangkubumi of Siak in A.H. 1292 (1875/6 A.D.) |
| Physical description | Water vessel without top, called kelalang in Siak. Fluted and chased silver. An incised inscription records that it was the property of the Yam Tuan Mangkubumi of Siak in A.H. 1292 (1875/6 A.D.). |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Yang punya kelalang ini Yam Tuan Mangkubumi kepada tahun 1292 sanah' Note The inscription was translated by Dr. Annabel Gallop, Curator of the British Library, in 2011. Translation 'The owner of this vessel is Yam Tuan Mangkubumi, in the year 1292' (AD 1875/6) |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by E.S. Wilkinson |
| Object history | IS.250 to 451-1950 and IS.1 to 7-1952, came from the collection of Mr. Richard James Wilkinson (1867-1941), who was formerly Deputy Governor of the Straits Settlement (1911 to 1916) and later Governor of Sierra Leone (1916-1922). He had acquired a collection of mostly Malay silverware and goldware, niello work, arms, etc. in Singapore and the Federated Malay States, which on 23 June 1919 was lent to the Indian Section of the V&A with the possibility of later making a bequest. A second loan of Malay brasswork followed on 31 October 1921. A total of 209 pieces were finally bequeathed to the V&A on 26 October 1950 following the death of his widow, Mrs Edith Sinclair Wilkinson. |
| Production | From Siak. |
| Bibliographic reference | Gallop, Annabel Teh. Malay seal inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia. [Ph.D. thesis]. School of Oriental and African Studies, Unviersity of London. 2002. |
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| Accession number | IS.253-1950 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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