Bottle stopper

Museum number:
18-1621a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21181621a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.4588
Object count:
2
Description:
Bottle stopper, wood, one piece; figure of man astride goat; child seated on man’s head; mounted on square lack steel base; a) snake stretching from goat’s tail to top of small head; a) above is fake, a copy of b) which is authentic. “...a typical example of how the faker always has to go the original one better, vide the unnecessary snake in this particular instance”
Donor:
Irwin Hersey
Collection place:
Malaysia
Culture or time period:
Malaysian
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bottle stoppers
Function:
1.5 Household
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Bottle stopper, accession number 18-1621a,b, described as Bottle stopper, wood, one piece; figure of man astride goat; child seated on man’s head; mounted on square lack steel base; a) snake stretching from goat’s tail to top of small head; a) above is fake, a copy of b) which is authentic. “...a typical example of how the faker always has to go the original one better, vide the unnecessary snake in this particular instance”Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Bottle stopper, accession number 18-1621a,b, described as Bottle stopper, wood, one piece; figure of man astride goat; child seated on man’s head; mounted on square lack steel base; a) snake stretching from goat’s tail to top of small head; a) above is fake, a copy of b) which is authentic. “...a typical example of how the faker always has to go the original one better, vide the unnecessary snake in this particular instance”Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Bottle stopper, accession number 18-1621a,b, described as Bottle stopper, wood, one piece; figure of man astride goat; child seated on man’s head; mounted on square lack steel base; a) snake stretching from goat’s tail to top of small head; a) above is fake, a copy of b) which is authentic. “...a typical example of how the faker always has to go the original one better, vide the unnecessary snake in this particular instance”

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