Title
Lacquer bowls for Semayang Ti Kong
Year/Period
1900s
Region
Indonesia - Palembang
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
10.0 x 20.0 cm
Please refer to dimension of individual parts
Accession No.
2024-00066
Collection of
This set of 12 lacquer bowls were used for semayang Ti Kong, which were prayers to Ti Kong, the Emperor of Heaven. Alice Choo (1926-2019) conducted the rituals between the 1940s and 1960s. in addition to maintaining a vegetarian diet for the day, she travelled to Hokkien Street early in the morning at about 7am to buy the 12 types of kueh (cakes) such as kueh jari and kueh bulat (finger and ball-shaped dumplings), which she poked into sticks and inserted on top of the lacquer bowls. Other types of offerings included bunga sundal malam (tuberose), bunga siantan (ixora) and tebu (sugarcane).
