A Cirebon wayang (purwa) kulit set of shadow puppets (190 plus individual puppets and associated paraphanelia) en-suite with carrying case/box.
Cirebon, West Java.
circa late 19th through 20th century
(This is a set belonging to a practicing dhalang who had to part with his set after a failed campaign bid for the local legislature, the oldest puppest date to the late 19th century with contemporaneous replacements for puppets damaged beyond repair)
A very rare extra-large sized puppet in Triwikrama, standing over a metre tall
Detail of the numerous piled heads - Dasamuka Triwikrama
The garuda, the makara face and the kayon
Bathara Guru or Siwa on the his mount, Nandi
A close-up of one of the older puppets dating to the 19th C
the venerable Semar, Lord of the Javanese Universe
the Ksatria puppets
the character Sekar Pandan, unique to the Cirebon genre of Wayang Purwa
unknown in the wayang kulit of Central and East Java
the mighty Bima, with his poisonous claw
One of the older 19th C puppets, a Liman with a fully prehensile trunk of multiple-joints, traces of gilt
the ungainly but much revered, Limbuk carrying her comb
Demons on a Naga
More contemporary replacement puppets in the form of steeds with the characteristic mega-mendung (rock-cloud) motif unique to Cirebon
A 19th C bull with traces of gilt
A contemporary replacement Mendjangan
Props and paraphanelia
*sold*
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