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Iko, Court dancer, before 1923, teak, 59 x 31 x 18 cm, private collection. Photo: Joop van Putten.

Purchased through Catawiki in 2020. It bears no inscriptions, and the statue was described on Catawiki at the time as a statue “in the style of the Javanese artist Iko,” raising some uncertainty as to whether this statue can actually be attributed to Iko. The dancer wears a fairly long robe around her legs that appears to be a dodot rather than a sarong or kain, although the folds at the hips of a dodot would be much more elaborate. The train does suggest how a bedaja or serimpi wears a dodot. Women typically wear the dodot over their chest, but this statuette has a different pattern on the chest than the dodot, suggesting she is wearing a separate breast cloth.
(Wassing-Visser, Weefsels en Adatkostuums uit Indonesië, 54).