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Инструменты Режимы отображения	Детали Remove from selection Add to selection CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection Номер объектаS1959-0058-001-0 НазваниеGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler) ОписаниеRosewater 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). Место изготовленияCraft Дата 1959 Период создания18th C НаименованиеMiscellaneous МатериалGlass Размерность H: 19 cm D: 7 cm Кредитная линияDonated by the Indian Government

CollectionSouth & Southeast Asian Collection

Номер объектаS1959-0058-001-0

НазваниеGulab Pash (Scent Sprinkler)

ОписаниеRosewater 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).

Место изготовленияCraft

Дата 1959

Период создания18th C

НаименованиеMiscellaneous

МатериалGlass

Размерность

H: 19 cm
D: 7 cm

Кредитная линияDonated by the Indian Government

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