Traditional Pintu Pagar - 2

The very impressive pintu pagar in the museum evidently used to belong to a rather wealthy peranakan family had 4 sections of panels with plenty of intrigate details.

I wonder how those that are still in use (and not in museums) would look like and set to find out.

Pintu pagar No. 5 consists of 4 sections of panels, with glass (?) at the outer section of the panels second from the top, and some detailed work at the top panel.  The pintu pagar is left wide open and hooked to the side, which kind of defeats its purpose.  The main doors are firmly shut, so the pintu pagars are not deliberately positioned this way so as to facilitate movements such as large furniture or large groups of people moving into and out of the house.  But because the pintu pagar is left wide open, I could see that there is a hook at the top of the pintu pagar and allows the pintu pagar to be (somewhat) securely closed when it is meant to be - i.e. people outside the house cannot simply push the pintu pagars and enter at will.  This provides some security to the occupants.  There is also the wooden bolt between the third and bottommost panel, that keeps the pintu pagar securely fastened when closed.  I did not see such bolts in some pintu pagars which were opened, so I wonder if this bolt is a constant feature of a pintu pagar, or that they were made to order by clients.

Something interesting that I observed are the window versions of pintu pagars.  These would have served the same functions for the windows as the pintu pagars did for the main doors.  The glass panels for the window pagar are not transparent, this ensures that passerbys cannot simply look into the house.

Pintu pagar No. 6 is similar to pintu pagar No. 5, except that it is in the colour of natural wood, while pintu pagar No. 5 is painted. 

Pintu Pagar No. 7 consists of 4 sections, with the top section of individual wooden bars, the second section of glass (?) and the remaining 2 sections of solid wood panels.  

The window pagar is a lot less elaborate compared to the pintu pagar, with a plain design of 4 glass (?) panels that allow some light through and keep prying eyes out.

I wonder if the wooden doors are the original doors, as there are door knockers and a door bolt that I last saw on my hotel door in Bhutan!

Pintu pagar No. 8 looks similar to pintu pagar No. 7, except that the second section is wood instead of glass (?).