ST1164 A LARGE PAIR OF TEAKWOOD DANCERS

BURMA, PROBABLY MANDALAY

19^TH CENTURY

H. 119 CMS, 47 INS and 107 CMS, 42 INS

An outstanding, finely detailed and almost life-sized pair of teakwood dancers, one male and one female, wearing traditional costumes and poised atop fluted dome-shaped bases.

For a related dancing figure in the Northern Illinois University Centre for Burma Studies, please see the following link:

Dancing Figure – NIU – Center for Burma Studies

For a related pair of dancers from the Doris Duke collection, see N. Tingley, Doris Duke: The Southeast Asian Art Collection, New York, 2003, p. 92, fig. 20.

Condition: Generally good. Minor losses commensurate with age.

Provenance: Private English collection.