Yogya Silver: Renewal of a Javanese Handicraft Art and Vietnam

and Vietnam

Penerbit: Singapore Art Museum dan Christie’s International Singapore

Publisher: Kodansha

from the traditional support of kings and aristocrats to the emergence of new patrons

Yogya Silver: Renewal of a Javanese Handicraft Art and VietnamFew detailed studies have appeared on the historical context of contemporary handicrafts in Indonesia since the publication of the standard work in five volumes by J. E. Jasper and Mas Pirngadie at the beginning of the twentieth century. One of these handicrafts is Yogya silver, a type of silverware that was developed in Yogyakarta (Yogya) and Kotagede, a small town four kilometres south east of this provincial capital. Yogya silver has been made for