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Handlinger Visningsindstillinger	Detaljer Remove from selection Add to selection South & Southeast Asian Collection ObjektnummerS1959-0058-001-0 TitelGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler) BeskrivelseRosewater sprinklers are common symbolic tools which are used to channel blessings at many Sufi shrines across South and Southeast Asia. They remind us that what is often seen as "belonging" in some way to a "particular" community may be considered as part of a wider eclectic cultural system, where intermixing and exchange are inherent aspects of identity formation. Upon gazing on the metaphor of commonality that the sprinklers represent, one 'realizes' medieval depictions of how Islam was spread by Sufis rather than by the sword and how diverse Sufi interactions with'local' periods and traditions produced what the syncretic pastiche of bodies that South and Southeast Asian "culture" has come to so vividly exemplify. (Source: Camping and Tramping, An Anecdotal Guide to Objects, Accumulations – Object, Order, Wonder, Part (c), No 103). ProduktionsstedCraft Produktionsdato 1959 Produktionsperiode18th C Genstand kategoriMiscellaneous MaterialeGlass Mål H: 19 cm D: 7 cm KreditrammeDonated by the Indian Government

ObjektnummerS1959-0058-001-0

TitelGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler)

BeskrivelseRosewater sprinklers are common symbolic tools which are used to channel blessings at many Sufi shrines across South and Southeast Asia. They remind us that what is often seen as "belonging" in some way to a "particular" community may be considered as part of a wider eclectic cultural system, where intermixing and exchange are inherent aspects of identity formation. Upon gazing on the metaphor of commonality that the sprinklers represent, one 'realizes' medieval depictions of how Islam was spread by Sufis rather than by the sword and how diverse Sufi interactions with'local' periods and traditions produced what the syncretic pastiche of bodies that South and Southeast Asian "culture" has come to so vividly exemplify. (Source: Camping and Tramping, An Anecdotal Guide to Objects, Accumulations – Object, Order, Wonder, Part (c), No 103).

ProduktionsstedCraft

Produktionsdato 1959

Produktionsperiode18th C

Genstand kategoriMiscellaneous

MaterialeGlass

Mål

H: 19 cm
D: 7 cm

KreditrammeDonated by the Indian Government

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