1932.89.177

Collection type

Object

Description

High-shouldered membrane jar with short neck and sloping sides, decorated with cut-out paper design. [ZM 3/8/2005]

Geographical reference

India

Asia > Southern Asia > India

Rajasthan Beawar

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Indian Institute, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1932

Date collected

By 1932

Acquisition information

Transferred: 1932

Materials and processes

Material Membrane, Material Paper Plant, Process Decorated

Dimensions

Height: max 196 mm, Depth: max 100 mm, Width: max 195 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1932.89.177 Other numbers: 6?

Associated publications

Illustrated in black and white photograph as figure 56 on plate IV of ''The Tandu Industry in Northern Nigeria and its Affinities Elsewhere', by H. Balfour, in Essays Presented to C.G. Seligman, (1934), pp. 5-18. Caption (page 18) reads: 'Plate IV. 45 = A small oil-flask, made by layering membranous material over a clay core, Patna, Bengal, from Sir R. C. Temple’s collection; 46 to 48 = two similar oil-flasks, of which number 46 is in the finished state, while 47 shows the exterior and 48 the interior of a specimen which I bisected in order to reveal the hollow clay core in situ, collected by H. E. Drake-Brockman in Mirzapur, N.-W. Provinces, in 1893; 49 = oil-vessel, sireshom, made by coating a clay core with skin-scrapings, Afghanistan, from Mrs. Courtney Bell’s collection; 50 = a thick-walled oil-jar, kupa, decorated with cut-out paper patterns appliques to the surface, Punjab, from General Pitt Rivers’ collection; 51 = an ornamentally shaped jar with cover, similarly ornamented, Multan, Punjab, collected by A. Brown, c. 1895; 52 = an ornamental flask with body of which is pierced by five “tunnels”, covered with paper patterns, Multan; 53 = a drinking-mug with similar decorative surface, Multan. The two last were formally in the Plymouth Museum. 54 = an oil-jar with gadrooned surface, N. India, from General Pitt Rivers’ collection; 55 = an oil-jar, tel kuppa, of moulded membrane, with flanges to which are attached loop-handles of cane, fitted with a duct of wood and tin for pouring the oil, Bikanir State, Rajputana, from Sir R. C. Temple’s collection, 1892; 56 = a very finely made kupa, stoutly built and very strong, decorated with a small panel of cut-out paper, the whole surface being varnished over, collected by Mrs. Leslie Saunders in Beawar, Ajmere-Mewara Province, Rajpuntana; 57 = a smaller similar flask, kupi, painted and varnished same data as the last.' [MJD 01/11/2011]

Search terms: Vessel, Food and Drink, Food Accessory