Container "kopit", around 1900 · Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3040850
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