Silky Oak BoxSilky Oak (Grevillea Robusta) 60 x 40 x 35 cm This is a storage box and is very tactile. The handle is made from a rope made up of cotton threads from a Sumba weaver.

A fine old Javanese keris handle

I believe that these are an attempt by the bead maker to replicate the early Roman beads and would have been made in the first millennia

The red coral branch beads are natural coral

possibly Carthaginian or Egyptian dated between 600 BC and 400 AD

He wears a crown and has a fine plaited sideburn

drawn Mutisalah bead

bead length 50 cm

The construction of the beads is unusual in that the glass canes appear to have been cut in slivers and then fused

Most of the beads are in fantastic condiion but a couple show oxidation as a result of being buried

Kala or Mahakala is found In candis (ancient temples) within Java built between the mid-seventh and the fifteenth centuries

made last century

Yellow reeds on a sandy bank cast early moon shadows