Product Description

Bronze Pig 3

Material: Bronze
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Length 26 cm, Width 8 cm, Height 15 cm
Order Number: MHSBRP3

During the Eastern Javanese Kingdom of Majapahit piggy banks were popular, made from terracotta or bronze. The great dynasty lasted from 1293 to around 1527 and reached its peak of glory during the reign of Hayam Wuruk (1350 – 1389).

Many realistic, well-sculpted examples have been discovered around Trowulan, the Majapahit capital. Pigs played an important part in the local economy. Suckling pig was a delicacy, as it still is in Bali.

Some were unslotted, as is this one. They wear chains and are decorated, suggesting that they are domesticated. They are probably wild boars.

Bronze Pig, The Metropolitan Museum of New York.

There is a similar 14th century example in The Lotus Transcendent, Indian and Southeast Asian Sculpture from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection , Martin Lerner and Steven M. Kossak, The Metropolitan Museum of New York 1991, page 225.

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