BALI
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DRUM
BALI
drum cylinder of nangka (jackfruit) wood, hollowed and decorated with four spotted mythological beasts on flower-sprinkled ground with Chinese style fret borders, painted with deep red, brown, green, black and vermillion paint and gilt highlights, with two metal suspension hooks
52.0 cm length
Estimate:
$800 - 1,200
Sold for $7,800 (inc. BP) in Auction 31 - 27 October 2013, Sydney
Exhibited
Donald Friend's Bali, an exhibition arranged in conjunction with the Donald Friend Retrospective, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 9 February – 25 March 1990
Literature
Donald Friend's Bali, Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Beagle Press, Sydney,1990, cat. 46, p. 52 (illus.)