Zemanek-Münster

Container "kopit", around 1900

Philippines - Ifugao
sold EUR 450
Provenance
Maria Closa, Manila, Philippines (mid 1980’s)
French Collection
Size
H: 15,5 cm
B: 23,5 cm
H: 6.1 inch
B: 9.3 inch

Description

wood, matt brown patina, bipartite, narrow oval receptacle with flaring rims, sickle-shaped curved lid, carved eyelets for closing the container with cord material, slightly dam., abrasion of paint;
used as a pillow at night.


Comparing literature

Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 142

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