The pair of teak doors lacquered in brown-red and decorated with gilded highlights over the applied high relief carving, would have been used in the home/business premises of a merchant in Java, based on the Javanese script expressing welcome which is on each of the lower panels. Such doors are a rarity in modern times. The doors would be probably made of teak, lacquered in brown-red and decorated with gilded highlights, particularly over the applied, high relief carving. The upper panels have roundels with pierced carving designs that are evocative of a mountain motif – possibly to central Java’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi. Each roundel is covered with a thin sheet of round glass thereby providing a window. Small, gilded fan-like motifs decorate each of the corners that surround each of these windows. A gilded carving of an rococo-like overflowing vase stands is at the top of each door panel above of these. No doubt and serves as an allusion to plenty and prosperity. Each of the lower panels featurehas Javanese script in high relief applied carved wood. The translated inscriptions have been translated to read:•Left panel – Ngaturaken (Javanese) meaningwhich is translated to ‘Wishing’ or ‘Expressing’•Right panel – Sugeng Rawuh (in Javanese) meaning which translates to ‘Welcome’
