Bali

Bali was originally an animist culture that became Hindu when it was incorporated into the Majapahit Empire in the 14th century. The Balinese are amazingly skillful artists, craftsmen and musicians. They create brilliant masks and woodcarvings. Visitors to Bali are surprised by the decorative and beautiful details they create using perishable materials such as fruit, banana leaves, rattan, rice, flowers, plants, and other readily available tropical materials to decorate temples, shrines, paths, rice fields and more. Balinese crafting skills have been handed down through generations for centuries and are taught to children at an early age. Their music and dance are world famous, very complicated and seamlessly accompanies a large variety of dramas, mask dances and other dance performances. Balinese dance masks called topeng (literally, pressed against the face) are considered to be “tenget”(endowed with magic). Every Balinese village has a collection of dance masks used in performances as offerings to please the gods and require prayers and rituals with a priest.

  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Rangda Mask on Museum Stand, Indonesia, Bali (1310)

    Antique/Vintage Rangda Mask on Museum Stand, Indonesia, Bali (1310)

    Original price was: $975.00.Current price is: $775.00.
    H: 8.26″  W: 7.25″ D: 6″   |     CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    Dance mask of Rangda, sacred Balinese demon-queen with 2 upper and lower fangs, scary teeth, jagged facial elements,  menacing eyes,  deep red. Featured in Spiderman 2002 movie on museum quality metal stand.

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  • Sale! SOLD Vintage Demon Mask (Jauk), Bali (1301-16QBE)

    SOLD Vintage Demon Mask (Jauk), Bali (1301-16QBE)

    Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $0.00.
    H: 7.625″ W: 6.125″ D: 3.375″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.

    Most jauk keras (strong, scary) masks of a giant are often red or orange to reinforce a volatile dance with jerky movements. This jauk manis (good, sweet) mask dance is a more controlled, regulated and enacted with more calm and human movements.

  • Vintage Carved Dewi Sri Rice Harvest Goddess, Bali (3044WOK) SPECIAL PRICE

    Vintage Carved Dewi Sri Rice Harvest Goddess, Bali (3044WOK) SPECIAL PRICE

    $425.00
    Ht: 14.5”  W: 3.5”  D: 2.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S!

    This rare vintage carving was probably made for a  home shrine or small rice field temple dedicated to Dewi Sri, the Balinese Goddess of Rice. The hole near the bottom indicates it may have been part of a larger decorative scheme.

  • Vintage Carved Mask of a King, Bali (1301-12EBE) $105

    Vintage Carved Mask of a King, Bali (1301-12EBE) $105

    $105.00

    This Dalem is a traditional folk-art and ethnic mask  (topeng) from Bali made from pulai wood of a Hindu king (Dalem). He stares directly at the viewer while his high cheeks help express his poise and the ability to remain cool in a crisis. This is a fine example of a gifted carver able to…

  • Sale! Vintage Carving of a Brahmana, Museum Stand, Bali (1267)

    Vintage Carving of a Brahmana, Museum Stand, Bali (1267)

    Original price was: $675.00.Current price is: $525.00.
    Ht: 15.5”  W: 8”  D: 5”     |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    Dayu mask of Balinese high-caste female Hindu Brahman, beautiful decorative piece on a museum quality metal stand.

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  • Vintage Hand Carved Dewi Sri, Hindu Rice Goddess, Indonesia, Bali (3045DLK) $265

    Vintage Hand Carved Dewi Sri, Hindu Rice Goddess, Indonesia, Bali (3045DLK) $265

    $265.00
    H: 14.5″  W: 6.625″  D: 2.375″ | FREE SHIPPING

    This very fine and very beautiful vintage woodcarving of Dewi Sri , Devi Sri or Sridevi in Java, the Balinese Hindu goddess of rice and prosperity, is in excellent condition considering it is a much used vintage piece. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it reflects the offerings made to Dewi Sri placed in the rice fields to protect the rice harvest. She is depicted here as a young, attractive and fertile woman wearing a striking, highly detailed and decorative headdress similar to those worn in Balinese dances leaving her upper forehead bare and framing her oval face with high curved eyebrows, wide-open eyes and beautiful pursed lips. With its flat back it can be mounted on a wall.

  • Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    $125.00

    This ethnic and folk-art Bali legendary court minister (topeng patih) is performed in a special mask dance named Topeng Panjegan, as only one dancer interprets five different characters wearing full face masks preventing speech. Patih manis (Sweet Minister) is often the first solo dance after a gamelan orchestra introduction, and this patih keras (strong minister)…

  • Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-2FBE) $105

    Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-2FBE) $105

    $105.00

    All ethnic mask (topeng) dances in Bali are accompanied with music from a gamelan percussion orchestra as are dramas and other entertainments considered as offerings to honor, please and attract the favor of the gods and ancestral spirits. In the west dancers put on masks to pretend they are someone else. Balinese dancers become the…

  • Vintage Mask of a Strong Minister (Topeng Keras), Bali (1301-4FBE) $125

    Vintage Mask of a Strong Minister (Topeng Keras), Bali (1301-4FBE) $125

    $125.00

    Court ministers (patih) in Bali, Indonesia are danced in mask (topeng) performances named Topeng Panjegan where a single dancer interprets 5 legendary characters wearing full face masks, cannot speak and much portray them only through gestures and body language and positions. Patih manis (literally sweet, a good natured, diplomatic minister) is often the first solo…

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