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Acties Weergave	Details Verwijder uit selectie Voeg toe aan selectie CollectieSouth & Southeast Asian Collection ObjectnummerS1959-0058-001-0 TitelGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler) BeschrijvingRosewater 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). Vervaardiging plaatsCraft Datum 1959 Vervaardiging periode18th C ObjectcategorieMiscellaneous MateriaalGlass Formaat H: 19 cm D: 7 cm Credit lineDonated by the Indian Government

CollectieSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

ObjectnummerS1959-0058-001-0

TitelGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler)

BeschrijvingRosewater 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).

Vervaardiging plaatsCraft

Datum 1959

Vervaardiging periode18th C

ObjectcategorieMiscellaneous

MateriaalGlass

Formaat

H: 19 cm
D: 7 cm

Credit lineDonated by the Indian Government

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