Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 11. (Budapest, 1968)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1967

Fig. 10. Java. Two Wayang figures, end of the XIX

th century, beginning of the XX

th century. Size: 67 and 82 cm. Inv. No.: 67.50; 67.51. These gilded and painted figures cut out of leather, perforated by many holes belong to the group of Wayang shadow puppets. The characteristics of the smaller one : judging from the form of the head, the stylized facial expression, the hair-do, dress and the naked trunk, it probably represents Yudhishthira, the Panda va hero. The bigger figure represents probably Baladeva, the brother of Krishna; he is stripped to the waist, his ace is stylized, too, there are jewels on his neck, arms, chest, and ears..There is a crest on his rich hair-do,