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The corridor between two bedrooms on the second floor also serves as a picture gallery of Mr Tan Cheng Lock and his family. Mr Tan was the father of Miss Agnes Tan, who donated $4 million to buy and restore the Baba House property in Neil Road. -- ST PHOTOS: WANG HUI FEN
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These inset wall cabinets (above), known as piaktu, have been fully restored in the Baba House. The elaborate carvings are purely decorative but the cabinets are functional - porcelain ware for daily use were stored in them for convenience, as seen here.
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This ancestral shrine or kam features exceptionally intricate and delicate carving on pale honey-coloured boxwood. It is the original one used by the Wee family.
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This recreation of a bedroom setting in the 1920s features a chrome-plated bed and dressing table from a Peranakan family in Malacca. Curator Peter Lee says such bedrooms were popular with young girls then.
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Reproductions of the original wooden half-doors or pintu pagars (above), which sometimes feature shells and lotus flowers with yellow and green gold border, give visitors a glimpse of Peranakan design.
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The opening exhibition (above) on the third-floor gallery displays the work of Hong Kong-based Singapore artist Michael Lee, who uses paper to explore the origins of Peranakan culture.
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