Container "kopit", around 1900 · Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3040850
Vendu
450 €
Provenance
Maria Closa, Manila, Philippines (mid 1980’s)French Collection
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.
Littérature comparée
Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 142