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”.
The object Medicine receptacle “guri guri” with the object ID 3045716 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 2 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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Comparing literature
Sibeth, A., Batak, Kunst aus Sumatra, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 135, ill. 166