Author: TEILLERS, J.
Title: Ethnographica in het Museum van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen te Batavia (Java)/Ethnographica in the Museum of the Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences. First edn.
Description: Weltevreden-'s-Gravenhage, Visser/Nijhoff, 1910. Folio. orig. recent clothbacked orig. boards portfolio, lettered & decorated front boards. [6] pp. of bi-lingual, dutch/english, descriptive text to the plates Numerous coloured & tinted ills. on 12 loose plates (30x25cms.) with tissue-guards, short describing text at tail of plates. Plates featuring a woodcarved door from Talaga-Cheribon; Door from Tjakra-Negara (Lombok); Aceen Weapons (Rèntjongs from Aceh); plaited bags for Sirih requisites (Gajo & Alas district, N. Aceh); Bronze subjects (2 plates); boat shaped bowls (Lelantjan) (Bali) (3 plates); etc. Complete set. Good copy. Scarce. (upper right corner of portfol. damaged, other corners somewh. bumped, ow. good.)

Keywords: art applied art ethnographica colonialism indonesia southeast asia