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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

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    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

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      UK art market

      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

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        Provenance

        Private collection, UK; originally acquired in Singapore.

        6220

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          Peranakan or Straits Chinese Altar Front Cloth (Tok Wi)

          Straits Chinese or Peranakan, possibly produced in Java, Indonesia
          circa 1900

          height: 97cm, width: 89cm

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          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

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            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

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              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

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                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

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                  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

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                    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.

                    4416

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                      Kendi with Green-Glazed Chinese Earthenware & Engraved Brass Mounts

                      Java, Indonesia
                      19th century

                      height: 21cm, width 24cm

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                      Provenance

                      private collection, UK.

                      2681

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                        Inscribed Peranakan Chinese Silver Ritual Ewer

                        Peranakan Chinese Community, Java, Indonesia
                        circa 1920

                        height: 12cm, weight: 151g

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                        Provenance

                        private collection, London, UK.

                        2600

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                          Straits Chinese Lacquered & Gilded Ancestral Shrine Cabinet

                          Southern China for the Straits Chinese Market
                          circa 1900

                          height: 43.5cm, width: 34.5cm, thickness: 15cm

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                          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

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                            Provenance

                            UK art market