Récipient à médicaments "guri guri" ·  Indonésie - Sumatra, Karo - Batak · ID: 3045716

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”.

Littérature comparée

Sibeth, A., Batak, Kunst aus Sumatra, Frankfurt am Main 2000, p. 135, ill. 166