Context (Field collection)
Collected by Ivor Hugh Norman Evans.
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Pair of small, cup-shaped vessels of brass, with petaloid edges with rims. Used for holding betel nut. The motif, as in many bowls and cups, is the lotus. Probably Brunei work
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Note from record for 1938.490: 'Part of a collection of brass objects comprising 1938.490-525. Most of these objects are no longer manufactured, at any rate in the forms here presented, though they are still much used, and prized, by the natives.'
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: Flo Sutton

Description (Physical description)
Container, one of a pair, made of brass. Both containers have flared bases and openings, and an openwork petal-like structure around the bowls. The bowls and bases are hollow. This container, B, has wider petals than container A.
Event Date 20/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (References)
Typescript autobiography by I.H.N. Evans: "the Years Behind Me". A copy is held in MAA's archives (BA5/9/4), ?1948.
Event Date 22/12/2022
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Acquisition Details)
In 1938 Ivor Hugh Norman Evans sold his house in Oulton Broad, Suffolk, and moved permanently to Sabah, Borneo, and 'presented all the ethnographica that I had to the Museum of Ethnology, Cambridge, and the best of my Chinese porcelain, except for a few pet pieces, to the Fitzwilliam Museum' (Evans unpublished ms, ?1948, p. 562)
Event Date 22/12/2022
Author: Flo Sutton