- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- White metal bowl with incised and repoussé decoration. On the underside of the vessel there is a floral design. [CW [OPS move] 7/7/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Mawlamyine
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1893
- Date collected
- 1893 - 1913 MALAYSIA
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1992
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Incised, Process Repoussé
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 55 mm, Height 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1992.6.140
- Research and responses
Examined on 30 January 2013 during a research visit by Wynyard Wilkinson, an expert in Asian silverware, who noted the form of the object, the style of the decoration and the technique all indicate this is from Mawlamyine (formerly Moulmein) in Myanmar (Burma) and was made circa 1900. [ZM 30/01/2013]
'Lieutenant-Colonel F. Mills, D.S.O. was born in Liverpool in 1873. In 1893 or 1894 he went to Malaya as a Civil Engineer to develop the railway system. In his spare time he enjoyed big game hunting and polo. He left Malaya in 1913 and returned to England. Obtained a Commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and commanded the 6th Battalion in Palestine and at Gallipoli. Received the D.S.O. at the Battle of Gaza. Left the army at the end of the war. Married in 1919, and lived in Wales until his death in 1945.' [MdeA 26/10/2000]
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