Bell

anonymous, c. 700 - c. 800

Bel, langs benedenrand krans van lotusbladeren, op middenband een reliëfband met acht antefixen, door guirlandes verbonden.

  • Artwork typejingle, percussion instrument, musical instrument, bell (idiophone)
  • Object numberAK-MAK-1293
  • Dimensionsheight 19.5 cm x diameter 14 cm
  • Physical characteristicsbronze

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Bell

  • Object type

  • Object number

    AK-MAK-1293

  • Description

    Bel, langs benedenrand krans van lotusbladeren, op middenband een reliëfband met acht antefixen, door guirlandes verbonden.

Creation

  • Creation

    bronze caster: anonymous, Midden-Java

  • Dating

    c. 700 - c. 800

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    bronze

  • Dimensions

    height 19.5 cm x diameter 14 cm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Sotheby Mak van Waay, 1977)

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; J. Immerglück & Cie, dfl. 425, to Willy van der Mandele, 1938;{Van der Mandele 2020} his widow A.C.R. van der Mandele-Vermeer;{Note RMA.}…; sale, Amsterdam (Sotheby/Mak van Waay), 8 June 1977 sqq, no. 2805, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst;Note RMA.}…; from whom on loan to the museum, 1977

Documentation

    • H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic art in private collections of Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam 1948, nr. 365, pl. 212.
    • Archief van der Mandele: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/425366
    • Caroline en Josine van der Mandele, Willy van der Mandele; kunstverzamelaar tijdens het interbellum, Zwolle, 2020, nr. 137.
    • F.D.K. Bosch, 'De Hindoe-Javaansche hangklok uit de collectie van der Mandele', MKB 17 (1940), p. 125-126.

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