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Iko & J. Schmutzer (design), Station of the Cross 1, Condemnation of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, teak, 106 x 80 x 9 cm, Missiemuseum, Steyl, object number Schm11.

This station is depicted on a panel modeled after niches like those found on Borobudur. Naturally, Buddhist-Hindu symbolism has been omitted from these panels, with the exception of ornamentation. The panel contains numbers and inscriptions in Javanese characters. The scene on this first station depicts Pilate shortly before the moment he washes his hands in innocence and condemns Jesus. This station is on loan from the Schmutzer family to the Mission Museum Steyl. The museum also possesses the twelve other unfinished panels (with an ornamented frame, but without a cross, surrounding a flat wooden panel on which the scene was to be placed), which are listed in the collection inventory as object number Schm13 (and subnumbers). Source: Missiemuseum Steyl; Schmutzer, Ten Berge, Maas, Europeanisme of katholicisme, 78-79.