Medicine receptacle "guri guri" · Indonesia - Sumatra, Karo - Batak · ID: 3045716
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Frank Prüser, Ladenburg, GermanySize
H: 16 cm
H: 6.3 inch
Description
two-part, shoulder pot, ceramic with blue underglaze painting (from Chinese production), h: 5 cm; stopper, wood, in shape of an equestrian riding on small “singa”, with real hair tail and metal clamp, h: 11 cm
These containers were used by the magic priests to store magical pulp “pupuk”.
Comparing literature
Sibeth, A., Batak, Kunst aus Sumatra, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 135, ill. 166