Specifications

• Dimension: 91 x 77 cm
• Material: cotton
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: tampan
• Price realised: $ 12.000,- hp

Provenance

Adrian Noë, Jakarta, Christies’, Jakarta 8-2-1996, lot 53; Dallas Museum of Art, inv. nr 2000.357

Publications

Schefold, Reimar (ed.)(2013), Eyes of the Ancestors. The Arts of Island Southeast Asia, nr 21, pp. 98-99

Additional information

A large tampan depicting various human figures, two elegantly modelled horses and two ships; cosmologically two worlds seem to to be depicted, the lower world, reprsented by nautical creatures and the world of the living.

Photo credits

Christie’s and Toky Yohari