Détails
CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection
N° d'objetS1959-0058-001-0
TitreGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler)
DescriptionRosewater 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).
Lieu de créationCraft
Date 1959
Période de création18th C
Catégorie d'objetMiscellaneous
MatérielGlass
Dimensions
H: 19 cm
D: 7 cm
D: 7 cm
Ligne de créditDonated by the Indian Government
