Feb 14
#FrogFriday 🐸:
Disk or Subang Cover with Frog Surrounded by Foliate
Java, Indonesia; Eastern Javanese Period, last quarter of the 10th - last quarter of the 15th c.
Gold, Diam. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1998.544.460
seen from China
seen from Germany
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seen from China
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seen from Austria
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Singapore
#FrogFriday 🐸:
Disk or Subang Cover with Frog Surrounded by Foliate
Java, Indonesia; Eastern Javanese Period, last quarter of the 10th - last quarter of the 15th c.
Gold, Diam. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1998.544.460
#WorldCrocDay :
British Library Serat Jaya Lengkara Wulang (MSS Jav 24)
“In Javanese language and script. Written in the court of the Sultan [Hamengkubuwana II] of Yogyakarta (Kanjeng Sultan ing Ngayogya) on 22 Rejeb A.J.1730 (7 Nov. 1803).”
“the crocodile…may suggest the name of the king of Pringgabaya…as ‘baya’ points to a crocodile”