Prince Diponegoro's Keris for sale
When negotiating, Prince Diponegoro had a chance to stab his captor, Lieutenant General De Kock with a Keris.
Prince Diponegoro's Keris was returned to Indonesia and became a permanent collection of the National Museum. This Keris was discovered through a long study (2017-2018 and 2019). Researchers from the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Leiden, concluded that the keris numbered RV-360-8084 register was a Prince Diponegoro Keris named Kiai Nogo Siluman.
The name was based on the first source about the Keris, namely Sentot Alibasah Prawirodirdjo's letter on May 27, 1830. The Diponegoro warlord called Kiai Nogo Siluman a keris of Prince Diponegoro given to Colonel Jan-Baptist Cleerens, commander of the Dutch forces. At the edge of the letter, the painter Raden Saleh gave an explanation of the meaning of Kiai Nogo Siluman, after being asked to identify the Keris by S.R.P. van de Kasteele, Director of Koninklijk Cabinet van Zaldzaamheden (Royal Cabinet for Antiques).
Cleerens played a role in ending the Java War by persuading Prince Diponegoro to negotiate what turned out to be a trap. Diponegoro was arrested by Lieutenant General Hendrik Merkus de Kock during negotiations at the Kedu Residency, Magelang, on March 28, 1830.
During the negotiations, according to P. Swantoro in From Book to Book, it actually crossed Prince Diponegoro's mind to kill Lieutenant General De Kock by stabbing a dagger while the two of them sat side by side on the sofa at the residence of the Kedu Resident.
"This thought was immediately eliminated by the Prince because his mind was whispering, it would not be good as a result of acting tantrums. He will lose the image of his majesty as a king. Besides, he doesn't have any friends in Java anyway. It is better for him to lean on or surrender to fate, "Swantoro wrote, quoting the Babad Dipanegara.
Diponegoro Keris for sale
Before fighting Diponegoro, in 1821 De Kock led a military expedition to conquer the Sultanate of Palembang. Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II was exiled to Ternate. De Kock was later appointed as a Palembang resident. In 1826 he was called to lead the Dutch forces against Prince Diponegoro. He arrested the Prince on March 28, 1830.
Former Minister of Education and Culture, Wardiman Djojonegoro, said that after returning to the Netherlands, at the end of October 1830, De Kock asked the renowned painter Nicolaas Pieneman to describe the arrest of Prince Diponegoro at the residence of the Kedu Resident, Magelang. Prince Diponegoro is depicted standing with a tired face and two arms outstretched. Behind him, Lieutenant General De Kock stood with his hips pointing to the prison train, as if to order the arrest of Diponegoro.
"A group of spears lying on the ground shows helplessness. Likewise, there is no keris on Prince Diponegoro's waist, "wrote Wardiman in a Brief History of Diponegoro.
Raden Saleh responded to the painting "The Conquest of Diponegoro" (1835) by Pieneman with the painting "Catching Diponegoro" (1857).
"Different from Pieneman, in Raden Saleh's painting, Prince Diponegoro is still depicted as standing in a tense standby pose. His hard-line face seems to hold his anger, his left hand is clenched, "said Werner Kraus, curator from Germany. In Raden Saleh's painting, Diponegoro's Keris is also not tucked at his waist.
After returning to the Netherlands, De Kock received the title "baron" for winning against Diponegoro. He later served as Minister of the Interior (1836-1841), Minister of State (1841-1845), and member of parliament until his death on 12 April 1845.
Apparently, it was not only Cleerens who was carrying the Keris of Prince Diponegoro. A report on the research of the Prince Diponegoro Keris, issued by the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen on January 20, 2020, revealed that De Kock also had a Prince Diponegoro Keris.
Reports say that the Keris was sold by the art dealer Damme in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1931. According to Damme, the Keris had once belonged to the family of Lieutenant General De Kock.
According to Caroline Drieënhuizen in "Koloniale collecties, Nederlands aanzien: de Europese elite van Nederlands-Indie belicht door haar verzamelingen, 1811-1957", a thesis at the University of Amsterdam in 2012, before in the hands of Damme, the Keris was owned by the head of the trading house Pryce and Co ., Herman Holle (Karel Holle's brother, owner of a tea plantation in Garut) and the Van Blommestein family.
The Keris was probably displayed at an Asian art exhibition in Amsterdam in 1936, which featured Dutch private and public collections.
"The exhibition catalog states that the Diponegoro keris is located among all the crises displayed. The keris is included in the collection of Jan Gerard Huijser (1878-1962), "Caroline wrote.
Caroline noted that since 1910, Jan Gerard Huijser, president of Rechtbank and amateur artists collected art from her birthplace, the Dutch East Indies, especially weapons such as Keris, swords, and spears from Bali and Java. He also became an intermediary between collectors and a good friend of the father of the famous Dutch East Indies art collector, Carel Groenevelt.
Another Diponegoro Keris
The report also mentioned that newspaper articles from 1885 and 1914 mentioned the Keris and spear of Prince Diponegoro. In 1885, both items were donated to Ede Reményi, a Hungarian violinist and composer. In 1914, a dagger and spear were once again mentioned together, when the district head of Magelang handed over these objects for an exhibition in Semarang.
In addition, reports say that the Keris donated to the Weltmuseum in Vienna by George Lodewijk Weijnschenk in 1886 was also associated with Prince Diponegoro. The Keris belongs to the Yogyakarta sultan, Hamengku Buwono IV, who was probably handed over to Diponegoro after the sultan died.
"It is not clear how the dagger became Weijnschenk's private collection," the report said.
George Lodewijk Weijnschenk was born in Yogyakarta in 1847. He was the son of a plantation entrepreneur, George Weijnschenk, with a Javanese woman named Ramag. His grandfather, Leopold Weijnschenk, came to the Dutch East Indies from Vienna in 1780.
According to Caroline, in 1886 George Lodewijk Weijnschenk, tenant of land in the Kasunanan area, handed over a number of art objects from his collection, including puppets, and it is said, the Diponegoro keris as a gift to the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph. In 1910, he also donated a set of gamelan to an institution in Vienna, perhaps the Naturhistorisches Museum.
Other Keris believed to belong to Prince Diponegoro are the Kiai Omyang collection from the Sasana Wiratama Museum in Yogyakarta and the Kiai Wisa Bintulu which are stored in the Gedong Pusaka Yogyakarta Palace.
The name was based on the first source about the Keris, namely Sentot Alibasah Prawirodirdjo's letter on May 27, 1830. The Diponegoro warlord called Kiai Nogo Siluman a keris of Prince Diponegoro given to Colonel Jan-Baptist Cleerens, commander of the Dutch forces. At the edge of the letter, the painter Raden Saleh gave an explanation of the meaning of Kiai Nogo Siluman, after being asked to identify the Keris by S.R.P. van de Kasteele, Director of Koninklijk Cabinet van Zaldzaamheden (Royal Cabinet for Antiques).
Cleerens played a role in ending the Java War by persuading Prince Diponegoro to negotiate what turned out to be a trap. Diponegoro was arrested by Lieutenant General Hendrik Merkus de Kock during negotiations at the Kedu Residency, Magelang, on March 28, 1830.
During the negotiations, according to P. Swantoro in From Book to Book, it actually crossed Prince Diponegoro's mind to kill Lieutenant General De Kock by stabbing a dagger while the two of them sat side by side on the sofa at the residence of the Kedu Resident.
"This thought was immediately eliminated by the Prince because his mind was whispering, it would not be good as a result of acting tantrums. He will lose the image of his majesty as a king. Besides, he doesn't have any friends in Java anyway. It is better for him to lean on or surrender to fate, "Swantoro wrote, quoting the Babad Dipanegara.
Diponegoro Keris for sale
Before fighting Diponegoro, in 1821 De Kock led a military expedition to conquer the Sultanate of Palembang. Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II was exiled to Ternate. De Kock was later appointed as a Palembang resident. In 1826 he was called to lead the Dutch forces against Prince Diponegoro. He arrested the Prince on March 28, 1830.
Former Minister of Education and Culture, Wardiman Djojonegoro, said that after returning to the Netherlands, at the end of October 1830, De Kock asked the renowned painter Nicolaas Pieneman to describe the arrest of Prince Diponegoro at the residence of the Kedu Resident, Magelang. Prince Diponegoro is depicted standing with a tired face and two arms outstretched. Behind him, Lieutenant General De Kock stood with his hips pointing to the prison train, as if to order the arrest of Diponegoro.
"A group of spears lying on the ground shows helplessness. Likewise, there is no keris on Prince Diponegoro's waist, "wrote Wardiman in a Brief History of Diponegoro.
Raden Saleh responded to the painting "The Conquest of Diponegoro" (1835) by Pieneman with the painting "Catching Diponegoro" (1857).
"Different from Pieneman, in Raden Saleh's painting, Prince Diponegoro is still depicted as standing in a tense standby pose. His hard-line face seems to hold his anger, his left hand is clenched, "said Werner Kraus, curator from Germany. In Raden Saleh's painting, Diponegoro's Keris is also not tucked at his waist.
After returning to the Netherlands, De Kock received the title "baron" for winning against Diponegoro. He later served as Minister of the Interior (1836-1841), Minister of State (1841-1845), and member of parliament until his death on 12 April 1845.
Apparently, it was not only Cleerens who was carrying the Keris of Prince Diponegoro. A report on the research of the Prince Diponegoro Keris, issued by the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen on January 20, 2020, revealed that De Kock also had a Prince Diponegoro Keris.
Reports say that the Keris was sold by the art dealer Damme in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1931. According to Damme, the Keris had once belonged to the family of Lieutenant General De Kock.
According to Caroline Drieënhuizen in "Koloniale collecties, Nederlands aanzien: de Europese elite van Nederlands-Indie belicht door haar verzamelingen, 1811-1957", a thesis at the University of Amsterdam in 2012, before in the hands of Damme, the Keris was owned by the head of the trading house Pryce and Co ., Herman Holle (Karel Holle's brother, owner of a tea plantation in Garut) and the Van Blommestein family.
The Keris was probably displayed at an Asian art exhibition in Amsterdam in 1936, which featured Dutch private and public collections.
"The exhibition catalog states that the Diponegoro keris is located among all the crises displayed. The keris is included in the collection of Jan Gerard Huijser (1878-1962), "Caroline wrote.
Caroline noted that since 1910, Jan Gerard Huijser, president of Rechtbank and amateur artists collected art from her birthplace, the Dutch East Indies, especially weapons such as Keris, swords, and spears from Bali and Java. He also became an intermediary between collectors and a good friend of the father of the famous Dutch East Indies art collector, Carel Groenevelt.
Another Diponegoro Keris
The report also mentioned that newspaper articles from 1885 and 1914 mentioned the Keris and spear of Prince Diponegoro. In 1885, both items were donated to Ede Reményi, a Hungarian violinist and composer. In 1914, a dagger and spear were once again mentioned together, when the district head of Magelang handed over these objects for an exhibition in Semarang.
In addition, reports say that the Keris donated to the Weltmuseum in Vienna by George Lodewijk Weijnschenk in 1886 was also associated with Prince Diponegoro. The Keris belongs to the Yogyakarta sultan, Hamengku Buwono IV, who was probably handed over to Diponegoro after the sultan died.
"It is not clear how the dagger became Weijnschenk's private collection," the report said.
George Lodewijk Weijnschenk was born in Yogyakarta in 1847. He was the son of a plantation entrepreneur, George Weijnschenk, with a Javanese woman named Ramag. His grandfather, Leopold Weijnschenk, came to the Dutch East Indies from Vienna in 1780.
According to Caroline, in 1886 George Lodewijk Weijnschenk, tenant of land in the Kasunanan area, handed over a number of art objects from his collection, including puppets, and it is said, the Diponegoro keris as a gift to the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph. In 1910, he also donated a set of gamelan to an institution in Vienna, perhaps the Naturhistorisches Museum.
Other Keris believed to belong to Prince Diponegoro are the Kiai Omyang collection from the Sasana Wiratama Museum in Yogyakarta and the Kiai Wisa Bintulu which are stored in the Gedong Pusaka Yogyakarta Palace.
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