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6579

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    Straits Chinese Red & Gold Floor Candle Stand

    Straits Chinese or Peranakan people, Straits Settlements, Malaysia & Singapore
    19th century

    height: 111cm

    Provenance

    UK art market

    6580

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      Straits Chinese Red & Gold Floor Candle Stand

      Straits Chinese or Peranakan people, Straits Settlements, Malaysia & Singapore
      19th century

      height (including spike): 114.5cm

      Provenance

      UK art market

      6322

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        Sumatran-Malay Terracotta Stemmed Vase for Drinking Water

        Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia
        circa 1900

        height: 16cm, diameter: 20cm, weight: 860g

        Provenance

        private collection, southern England.

        6218

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          Peranakan or Straits Chinese Altar Front Cloth (Tok Wi)

          Straits Chinese or Peranakan, possibly commissioned from China
          early to mid-20th century

          height: 93cm, width: 95.5cm

          Provenance

          Private collection, UK; originally acquired in Singapore.

          6221

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            Peranakan or Straits Chinese Altar Front Cloth (Tok Wi)

            Private collection, UK; originally acquired in Singapore.
            early 20th century

            height: 92cm, width: 104cm

            Provenance

            Private collection, UK; originally acquired in Singapore.

            5322

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              Straits Chinese Groom’s Double-Sided, Finely Embroidered Blue Wedding Sash

              Straits Chinese, Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca)
              late 19th or early 20th century

              length: 197cm, width: 6.5cm

              Provenance

              Acquired by a colonial administrator in the early 20th century, and has been in England since.

              5319

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                Finely Embroidered Straits Chinese Silk Wedding Valance

                Straits Chinese, Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca)
                circa 1900

                wdith: 175cm, length (including tassel hangings): 103cm

                Provenance

                Acquired by a former colonial British Resident Advisor to Kelantan in the early 20th century, and has been in England since.

                5810

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                  Glass Beaded Wedding Slippers (Kasut Manek)

                  Straits Chinese Community, Singapore, Malacca or Penang
                  circa 1920

                  length: 25cm

                  Provenance

                  UK art market

                  5315

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                    Embroidered Chinese Wall Hanging with Shou (寿) & other Daoist Deities

                    China, exported to the Straits Settlements
                    19th century

                    dimensions of backing material: 120cm x 84cm

                    Provenance

                    collected by Alwyn Sidney Haynes (1878-1963), and thence by descent. Haynes was a colonial administrator in Malaya and the Straits Settlements between 1901 and 1934. He held many posts including Acting British Resident, Pahang (1924); British Resident, Perak (1925); British Advisor, Kedah (1925); British Advisor, Kelantan (1930); and Acting Colonial Administrator, Straits Settlements (1933), after which he retired and returned to England, and lived near Stratford-upon-Avon, and then in Leamington Spa. Haynes loaned some of the items he collected in Malaya to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1939. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1950.

                    4519

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                      Silver Lidded Lotus-Pattern Bowl

                      Singapore or Riau
                      circa 1920

                      height: 16.3cm, diameter: 21.4cm, weight: 506g

                      Provenance

                      UK art market

                      1944

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                        Straits Chinese ‘Brown & Gold’ Ancestral Shrine Cabinet

                        Straits Chinese community, Straits Settlements (Malacca, Penang, Singapore)
                        19th century

                        height: 81cm, width: 70cm, depth: 47cm

                        Provenance

                        UK art market