‘Malay Silver & Gold’ Reviewed in ‘Arts of Asia’

We are delighted that Malay Silver and Gold: Courtly Splendour from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand by Michael Backman and published by River Books has comprehensively and so favorably reviewed at length across three full pages in the current issue of the quarterly Arts of Asia magazine.

Malay Gold and Silver is 300 pages long and with 475 images of items most of which have never before been published.

It is the most comprehensive book on the topic ever published.

‘Malay Silver and Gold’ is available worldwide from Amazon.com.

Above: Cover of the Winter 2025 edition of Arts of Asia.

Above: The cover of Malay Silver and Gold: Courtly Splendour from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand

Above: Michael Backman, photographed with Malay Silver and Gold, in Kuala Terengganu, on the Terengganu River on the East Coast of Peninsula Malaysia. Kuala Terengganu is very much a heartland of traditional Malay culture, and the river sums up traditional Malay life – they were riverine peoples, and almost all Malay sultanates were based on a river mouth or estuary.

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