Specifications

• Height: 32; length: 44 cm
• Material: wood, buffalo horn, hair
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: naga morsarang, sahan
• Price realised: € 1.200,- hp

Provenance

Venduehuis, The Hague 27-6-2024, lot 4258;

Passed down through generations of a Dutch family by inheritance. Assumed to have originally been collected by Willem Bronkhorst (born in Nijmegen around 1860). He was a lieutenant of infantry in the East Indian Army (later KNIL) in 1884. He married in De Rijp on September 29, 1884 with Alida Wilhelmina Lau. They had 2 children; a daughter, Johanna Henrica Bronkhorst (born 1885) and a son, Willem Bronkhorst (born 1888 in Ambon), he would later became a renowned pulmonologist. The family moved back to the Netherlands (probably late 1800’s or early 1900’s). Johanna Henrica Bronkhorst married Johannes Theodorus Hermans in Utrecht on November 7, 1911 and they came to live at Plantsoen 99 in Leiden. They had nine children including Johanna Bartholomea Hermans, who passed this piece down to her daughter.

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Exhibitions

Additional information

Lid and horn do not fit. The horn was added later, the lid shows a dark patina and extensive usage, whereas the horn looks quite new and, compared to the size of the lid, is rather small. The usual squatting figure at the horn’s tip is missing here.

An interesting feature is the carving of a human arm on both sides of the singa’s neck. As can be deduced from a hole at the back of the neck a human figure was attached.

Photo credits

Venduehuis, The Hague