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Kettle-gong (kethuk)

1840
Object Place: Central Java, Indonesia

Medium/Technique Teak, bronze
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mr. and Mrs. Bradford M. Endicott and Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Fraser in honor of Jan and Suzanne Fontein, and the Frank B. Bemis Fund
Accession Number1990.550a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical instrumentsIdiophones

DescriptionOne bronze knobbed kettle gong which is suspended horizontally on new red cotton rope tied to the corner finials of the square red painted wood case. Bottom sections of two panels are replacements carved by Javanese craftsmen in 1990, as is one entire corner post and the foot and finial on another. (slendro tuning)
Provenance1840, slendro-tuned ensemble commissioned by Chinese patron, Central Java. After 1840, Priyo family, the Bupati (regent) of Blora, Central Java; about 1876, pelog-tuned ensemble commissioned and combined with 1840s ensemble, Central Java; by 1990, by descent through three generations of the Priyo family to Mr. and Mrs. Supriyo, Blora, Central Java, Indonesia; July 12, 1990, sold by Supriyo to Nyonya Nora, Surakarta, Indonesia; 1990, sold by Nyonya Nora to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 1990)