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Straits Chinese Beaded Wedding Slippers
Straits or Peranakan Chinese, Straits Settlements, probably Malacca, Malaysia/Singapore circa 1880
length: 25cm, width: approximately 8cm, combined weight: 108g
Provenance
UK art market
Straits Chinese Red & Gold Floor Candle Stand
Straits Chinese or Peranakan people, Straits Settlements, Malaysia & Singapore 19th century
height: 111cm
Provenance
UK art market
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
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.
Peranakan or Straits Chinese Altar Front Cloth (Tok Wi)
Straits Chinese or Peranakan, possibly produced in Java, Indonesia circa 1900
height: 97cm, width: 89cm
Provenance
Private collection, UK; originally acquired in Singapore.
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.
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.
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.
Glass Beaded Wedding Slippers (Kasut Manek)
Straits Chinese Community, Singapore, Malacca or Penang circa 1920
length: 25cm
Provenance
UK art market
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.
Kendi with Green-Glazed Chinese Earthenware & Engraved Brass Mounts
Java, Indonesia 19th century
height: 21cm, width 24cm
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Inscribed Peranakan Chinese Silver Ritual Ewer
Peranakan Chinese Community, Java, Indonesia circa 1920
height: 12cm, weight: 151g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK.
Straits Chinese Lacquered & Gilded Ancestral Shrine Cabinet
Southern China for the Straits Chinese Market circa 1900
height: 43.5cm, width: 34.5cm, thickness: 15cm
Provenance
UK art market
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