Bell with Singha Maker: Unknown

13th century

Indo-Pacific Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Bronze; cast

Dimensions

6 1/2 × 3 1/8 in. (16.5 × 8 cm)
chain length: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Susan M. Yecies, B.A. 1971

Accession Number

2011.37.2

Geography

Made in Java, Indonesia

Culture

Majapahit

Classification

Musical Instruments

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Provenance
Susan M. Yecies, New York, before 2010. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer and Marijke J. Klokke, Divine Bronze: Ancient Indonesian Bronzes from A.D. 600 to 1600 (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1988), no. 72, 73
  • J. E. van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Indo-Javanese Metalwork (Stuttgart, Germany: Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 1984), no. 50, 51
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

bells (idiophones)

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