glass mirror in carved ornate wooded frame, fronted by three steps and flanked by two figures of women holding fans and standing on pedestals, painted in yellow, white, red, blue, green and black, the back with sunray motifs in deep yellow, red and black
50.0 cm height
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold:
$9,000 (inc. BP)
lot details
Ceremonial Mirror
BALI
glass mirror in carved ornate wooded frame, fronted by three steps and flanked by two figures of women holding fans and standing on pedestals, painted in yellow, white, red, blue, green and black, the back with sunray motifs in deep yellow, red and black
50.0 cm height
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. 45, p. 38 (illus.)
Related Works
This work features in Donald Friend’s Self Portrait in a Carved Mirror, c1972 (see lot 29)