{"id":107093,"date":"2023-01-09T16:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=107093"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:51:52","slug":"scattered-yet-striking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/scattered-yet-striking\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered yet striking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scattered yet striking<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-3.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Andrew Nicholl\u2019s watercolour of Cayman\u2019s Gate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sundaytimes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">With just a month to go before the country celebrates its 75th anniversary of independence, Yomal Senerath-Yapa visits the Colombo Museum to see its colonial collection<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In the Colombo National Museum, the colonial heritage of Lanka seems often underplayed. There are galleries sumptuous and magnificent dedicated to the classical eras of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and the later isthmus kingdoms leading to the final, Kandyan feudal era, but the four and a half centuries from 1505 to 1948 remain dim lit and ill defined.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">This is surprising given that the museum was built in 1877, in the height of Queen Victoria \u2013 Empress of India\u2019s glory. The largest museum in the country, it is maintained by the Department of National Museums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Built in the Italianate style, the banyan-shaded Colombo Museum located in a prime spot on Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo 7 is an imposing structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One has to cut across floors to appreciate the colonial collection in the museum which if scattered is nevertheless striking.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-4.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dutch Plate<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Begin with the gold and scarlet Kandyan throne which comes under the \u2018colonial\u2019 badge because it was a gift from the Dutch Governor Thomas van Rhee to Vimaladharmasurya I which then enthroned six monarchs. Rich carvings of divinities and the sun and two lions are a feature to note here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The sword and rapier \u2013\u00a0 those emissaries of steel used by the Portuguese, the Dutch and British are displayed- the Dutch swords with simple hilts giving place to the British pommeled ones made to be brandished from a horse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Coins begin with the crude circular ones from the Portuguese times: a gold coin with the form of S. Thomas on the obverse and date on the reverse, and three silver coins called the Malacca, the Gridiron and the Saint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dutch coinage in Ceylon, easily spotted because of the VOC emblem \u2013 are well represented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">British coins were first minted in 1796 in the maritime regions. There is a fine collection of \u2018star pagodas\u2019 and 1\/96 and 1\/48 Rupee copper coins. From 1801 to 1804 Stuiver 1\/2 and 1\/4 coins came to be used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-5.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">British coin<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">During 1803, an 1816 Pataga 1 and 1\/2 were used. In these coins, a figure of an elephant with the year of issue and the legend \u201cCeylon Government\u2019 appeared on the obverse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The use of pounds, shillings and pences was commenced on March 23, 1825.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">About 1830 two types known as Farthings of copper and silver came to be used. From December 14,1833, Indian Rupees minted by the British came into use. From January 1,1872, the Rupees and cents system was commenced while copper issues of 5 cents, 1 cent, 1\/2 cent and still later silver 50, 25 and 10 cent coins were used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Also housed in the Museum are the Andrew Nicholl paintings from the Irish artist\u2019s five week sketching tour in Ceylon \u2013 such exotic sights as a wide, palm-fringed harbour with sailing craft and ruins of Buddhist sites shrouded in jungle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Arguably the most dramatic, heart-rending artefacts are the jackets worn by King Sri Wickrama Rajasinha and his chief consort, still marked with their royal blood, after the English rank and file caught them hiding in a chieftain\u2019s house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dutch coat of arms above old Menikkadavara fort, Kegalle<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-6.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Swords of the Dutch era<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A collection of Portuguese and Dutch inscriptions rather like honey coloured loafs of bread with those large Roman letters and numerals handsomely worked; tombstones as well as other carvings also beckons the visitor, as does a huge rock carved with Dutch arms that used to hang over the entrance to the Menikkadavara Fort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Delftware from Holland and pottery in blue or all the colours of the Far Orient are also displayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Finally, housed without in those spacious verandahs outside<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">are cannons from the Dutch and Portuguese times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Kandyan throne given by Governor van Rhee to King Vimaladharmasurya and used by six Kandy kings<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><strong>A stately mansion<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Reminding one of grand English stately mansions, the museum is a delight because of its airy colonial halls and large verandahs and passages, redolent of earlier, more leisured times- a feeling added to by the sprawling grounds.Commissioned by the Governor Sir Henry William Gregory, it was designed by J. G. Smither, Public Works Department architect and built by Arasi Marikar Wapchie Marikar (1829\u20131925) who also gave Colombo its familiar contours with other landmark buildings \u2013 the General Post Office, Colombo Customs building, the old Town Hall in Pettah and the Galle Face Hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Museum-BOX-pic.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a>Grand facade: A front view of the Colombo Museum. Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/plus\/scattered-yet-striking-507306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sundaytimes.lk\/230108\/uploads\/Cover-pic.jpg\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered yet striking &nbsp; Andrew Nicholl\u2019s watercolour of Cayman\u2019s Gate Source:Sundaytimes With just a month to go before the country celebrates its 75th anniversary of independence, Yomal Senerath-Yapa visits the Colombo Museum to see its colonial collection In the Colombo National Museum, the colonial heritage of Lanka seems often underplayed. 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