Object Number | 49-31-40B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Balinese |
Provenience | Bali (uncertain) |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Wood | Pigment |
Description | Painted wooden sheath. Top (wrangka) kidney-shaped, with one vertical curved ridge on one face. Body of sheath (gandar) painted with sinuous stem with regularly branching five-petalled orange flowers (rinceau), bursting at top (on wrangka) into cluster of five similar flowers. Flanking the flower cluster, a pair of evidently high-ranking male Javanese wayang figures. Painted motifs on two sides of sheath similar but not completely identical: wayang figures repeated, but reversed. |
Length | 49 cm |
Width | 17 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Anton S. Lau, 1949 |
Other Number | 29-J-68 - Other Number | 49-31-40 - Other Number |
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