Tribute Tablet
16745A
From: Johore | Malay Peninsula
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 16745A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | Johore | Malay Peninsula |
| Period | 19th Century |
| Date Made | 1892 |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Wood |
| Inscription Language | Chinese Language |
| Description | Tribute table made of four wooden boards held together. It has a black background with gold and red inscriptions and a red painted back. See also 29-96-765A,B for the antithetical couplets on long wooden boards that go with this piece. The inscriptions read: 中天雲錦 (Zhong tian yun mian), 光緒壬辰穀旦 (Guangxu renchen gu dan), 柔佛國 (Roufo guo). Translated as: A brocade of clouds in the midst of the heavens, 1892, in the reign of the [Qing emperor] Guangxu, Sultanate of Johor. |
| Height | 102 cm |
| Width | 278 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from the Sultan of Johore (through his agent Rounsevelle Wildman), 1893 |
| Other Number | 29-96-764 - Other Number |
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