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1891.4.9

Drinking bowl of wood with metal rivet decoration.

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1891.4.9

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Collection type
Object
Description
Drinking bowl of wood with metal rivet decoration.
Person
Field collector James Theodore Bent
PRM source James Theodore Bent
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1891
Date collected
By 1891
Acquisition information
Donated: 1891
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Process Riveted, Process Decorated, Process Carved
Dimensions
Diameter: max 192 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1891.4.9
Associated publications
Illustrated on page 27 of Deserts of Vast Eternity: Southern Arabia and Persia, Volume 3 of The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent: Mabel Bent's Diaries of 1883-1898, from the Archive of the Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies, London - Published for the First Time, with Additional Material by Gerald Brisch (3rdguides series), Oxford: Archaeopress (2010). Illustration credit (page 426) reads: 'Page 27. "Drinking bowl of wood with metal rivet decoration Isd of Barein (sic) Persian Gulf". Presented by Theodore Bent to the Pitt Rivers Museum; accession number 1891.4.9. Photograph (c) Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.' In her diary entry for Wednesday 20 February 1889, Mabel Bent writes (see page 26): 'we went into Manama and lunched at Sheikh Seid's... He gave us a coffee pot [1891.4.12], a most beautiful inlaid bowl [1891.4.9] from El Hasa and a camel skin buckler and a spear about 8 feet long. We gave him several things and have promised him an opera glass, for he has really been most kind to us.' In a related note (number 81 on page 52), the editor Gerald Brisch writes: 'El Hasa "which appears to be the centre of art in this part of Arabia" ... is opposite Bahrain and now the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Theodore [Bent] displayed several of these items when he read his paper on Bahrain to the Royal Geographical Society on 25 November 1889: 'Top of whelk shell; coffee pot; camel skin shield; wooden bowl; lock; wood key; tray for charcoal. The coffee pot and inlaid bowl were donated by Theodore to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford in 1891, accession numbers 1891.4.12 and 1891.4.9 respectively; they are illustrated on page 27.' [JC 27 8 2010]

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