Mammal-shaped handle, Bronze Age, ca. 300 BC – 200 AD · Indonesia, Eastern Java, purportedly from Lumajang area · ID: 3052698
Starting price
EUR 2,500
Estimated price
EUR 6,000
Provenance
Dutch Private Collection (1960s or earlier)Kurt Sandmair (1932-2013), Munich, Germany (acquired in the early 1980s in Amsterdam)
Size
L: 8,4 cm
H: 6,5 cm
L: 3.3 inch
H: 2.6 inch
Description
bronze, base
The delightful depicition of an unidentifiable mammal might well have served as a decorative element on a bronze vessel or possibly a drum.
We do not know comparable three-dimensional Bronze Age objects!
Notices
This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).