Collection Number 43
Title Lawang seketeng/ Portal or gate
Time 1960 Circa
Time Acquisition 1994
Place Bondowoso, Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia
Place of Acquisition Junaedi Antique Shop, Martadinata Rd., Bondowoso, Bondowoso, Indonesia
Name Painter (Place and Year Birth-Death) Unknown
Size Portal
Category (Sub-Category) Islam
Current Location Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) Permanent Exhibition “Indonesian Glass Paintings: The Collection of O‘ong Maryono and Rosalia Sciortino” Link: http://www.vme.org.vn/permanent-exhibitions/ tranh-kinh-indonesia-en-us/
Description A portal is portrayed with various verses (ayat) to protect against evil deeds and spirits according to Madurese culture. This kind of glass paintings would be usually placed inside the house on top of the entrance Junaedi is a childhood’s friend of the late O’ong Maryono and his shop is across O’ong’s family house