<ul> <li>The exhibition catalogue of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in Rotterdam shows a most extensive collection of Javanese gold from the 7th and 8th centuries including museum artefacts and a private collection.</li> <li>The sagas and legends portrayed in the treasures, bear witness to the active role that the gods played in society.</li> <li>The books with many color plates includes a foreword by Stanley Bremer.</li> </ul> This catalogue is published in association with the exhibition Goud der Godden in the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. For the exhibition shown in the catalogue, five sets of related sacred gold ornaments were displayed on specially made models. They represent Vishnu, Goddess, King, Queen, and Princess. All the gold pieces shown are ancient and were made to measure. Silver and gold paraphernalia and jewelry, a gold stupa and ascetic plaques made from gold are included in this wonderful book.

Gold Of The Gods

Arts & Photography

Wereldmuseum Rotterdam

Decorative Arts & Design

Golden Lotus

<div> <ul> <li>Includes 350 items of stunning jewellery of Java gold from private collections</li> <li>Gold Rings are universally considered symbol of wealth, social status and power</li> <li>An embarrassment of riches for all jewellery enthusiasts!</li> </ul> Java is outstanding for having produced copious works of art in the form of ring. The most unique ring types and finger rings of stunning variety and workmanship. Rings were significant symbols of wealth, social status and power As body ornamentation finger and earrings were widely distributed and most numerous among gold jewellery in ancient Indonesia from the 7th to the 15th centuries when Java was home to a series of spectacular Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms renowned for their temple sculpture and architecture. Traditionally great lovers of gold, the Javanese were also patrons of virtuoso goldsmiths and other artisans who produced a seemingly endless array of gold jewellery especially during the 13th and 14th century, a period that can be described as a Golden Age. The book includes more than 350 items of jewellery from private collections This pioneering overview on rings brings together a corpus of material that is both representative as valuable antiquities and of fine quality. The rings provide a small and wondrous glimpse of a long-gone era that lives on through them.</div>

Java Gold: The Wealth of Rings

Reference

Lockoff, Nicole

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

<ul> <li>Second book in the series of the immensely stunning bestseller Java Gold : Wealth of Rings</li> <li>Gold body ornaments and objects are universally considered symbol of wealth, social status and power</li> </ul> The gold jewellery from the late 7th to the early 16th century features an endless number of shapes, styles and motifs that mirror the brilliant creativity of Java's culture and its talented goldsmiths. Gold body ornaments and objects played an essential role as symbol of status and power as well as a magical substance associated with higher powers. These beautiful artworks also conveyed social, economic and cultural messages during public rituals and ceremonies

Java Gold:The Splendour of Jewelery

Golden Lotus Foundation

Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago features more than 700 unpublished masterpieces from the tribal, ethnic and courtly gold body adornment traditions of Indonesia’s outer islands – Sumatra, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas and Southeast Maluku. Made available by the Mandala Foundation in Singapore, these pieces date from the 4th to the 20th century, and many are completely unknown, extremely rare and of high quality.

Gold Jewelery Of The Indonesia Archipelago

Richter, Anne

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Gold Of The Gods

Java Gold: The Wealth of Rings

Java Gold:The Splendour of Jewelery

Gold Jewelery Of The Indonesia Archipelago