MINDANAO ,PHILIPPINES GADOR

WHITE METAL

MID 20TH CENTURY

16” diameter x 36” high

REMARKS : A large intricate decorated white metal gador from southern Philippines; “in proper Marano households in older days a gador held tobacco. Now with plastic wrapped chewing and smoking tobacco readily available, the gador has become very much an item of interior decoration.” (Fessler,Loren W.; Marano Art and the Aga Khan Museum; Art of Asia; September-October 1977.)