Three-Panel Folding Screen with Fire Offering and Nature Spirit Motifs

Wayan Gerudug

1962

  • Titles Three-Panel Folding Screen with Fire Offering and Nature Spirit Motifs (Descriptive)
  • Artist Wayan Gerudug, Balinese, Indonesian, 1905 - 1989
  • Medium wood, colors and metal
  • Dimensions unfolded: 58 1/2 × 55 3/4 × 7/8 in. (148.6 × 141.6 × 2.2 cm) left panel: 58 11/16 × 18 1/2 × 7/8 in. (149.1 × 47 × 2.2 cm) center panel: 58 1/2 × 18 3/8 × 7/8 in. (148.6 × 46.7 × 2.2 cm) right panel: 58 3/8 × 18 3/4 × 7/8 in. (148.3 × 47.6 × 2.2 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of the Litkenhous family, 2020.69
  • Work Type screen
  • Classification Furniture
  • On View

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