Slit Gong (Kentongan)

Period:: Eastern Javanese period

Date:: ca. 13th century

Culture:: Indonesia (Java)

Medium:: Bronze

Dimensions:: H. 16 in. (40.7 cm)

Classification:: Metalwork

Credit Line:: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987

Accession Number:: 1987.142.30

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 247

Samuel Eilenberg , New York (until 1987; donated to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection," October 2, 1991–June 28, 1992.

Timelines
Southeast Asia, 1000–1400 A.D.

The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection

Department

Asian Art (35,507)

Object Type / Material

Bronze (12,212)

Copper alloy (18,975)

Geographic Location

Date / Era

A.D. 1000–1400 (6,975)

Slit Gong (Kentongan)

Date: ca. 13th century Medium: Bronze Accession: 1987.142.31 On view in:Gallery 247

Enthroned Buddha Attended by the Bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Vajrapani

Date: second half of the 10th century Medium: Bronze Accession: 2004.259 On view in:Gallery 247

Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

Date: ca. second half of the 9th–early 10th century Medium: Bronze Accession: 1987.142.24 On view in:Gallery 247

Top of an Oil Lamp in the Form of a Head

Date: 11th–13th century Medium: Bronze Accession: 1987.142.249 On view in:Gallery 247

Pellet Bell in the Form of a Human Head

Date: ca. 13th–14th century Medium: Bronze Accession: 1987.142.246 On view in:Gallery 247