Lot No. 259


Indonesia, Flores Island: A janus-headed stone figure.


Indonesia, Flores Island: A janus-headed stone figure. - Tribal Art

A janus-headed ancestor- or guardian figure from Flores, in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Made of light-coloured stone, with two faces on top. Probably placed as a guardian figure in front of a village (probably an ‘ancestral couple’, female-male, back to back). Stone figures from Flores are very rare!
19th century or earlier. H: 66 cm. (ME)

Provenance: René Clemencic Collection, Vienna.

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at

26.05.2015 - 15:00

Estimate:
EUR 8,000.- to EUR 10,000.-

Indonesia, Flores Island: A janus-headed stone figure.


A janus-headed ancestor- or guardian figure from Flores, in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Made of light-coloured stone, with two faces on top. Probably placed as a guardian figure in front of a village (probably an ‘ancestral couple’, female-male, back to back). Stone figures from Flores are very rare!
19th century or earlier. H: 66 cm. (ME)

Provenance: René Clemencic Collection, Vienna.

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Tribal Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 26.05.2015 - 15:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 20.05. - 26.05.2015

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