Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 11. (Budapest, 1968)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1967

Fig. 8. Java. Copper utensils. a) Can with lid, inscribed date 1870, purchased from the late Ernest Zboray's collection. Size: 21 cm. Inv. No.: 67.131. Entirely unusual can-form among the Javanese copper utensils, with chiselled decoration of Javanese taste. Its octahedron form, the pinked neck with a brim and the multidivided conetype lid with decorated knob imitate the European or Chinese tea kettles. The soldering seam of the handle and the pipe of the can is rough, the form of the can is bulky, the object itself is heavy, it is a few mm wide copper-cast. Its sides are alternately decorated by chessboard-pattern and floral motifs, there is the date 1870 on its front-side. In spite of the appearance of the alien form the ancient and regional traditions of ornamentation have been preserved. Judging from the form of the can it was probably made for Europeans. Kettles are not frequent among the Javanese copper utensils and it is its form, decoration and the date, not its artistic values, what render it worth of mentioning. In the collection of our Javanese utensils there are many objects of different functions, mainly articles for personal use. Small and high wicks, utensils of globular form, bottles with slender neck, roll-shaped boxes, cans, plates, trays, bowls, toy-cart, models of rice-storehouses and batak house models are among them. Their varied form is accompanied by varied decoration: stylized floral ornamentation, bird and bough decoration, cast and forged ornamentation.