Lot No. 70


Very fine Sepik Lime container with spatula, Sepik region Papua New Guinea around 1900.


Very fine Sepik Lime container with spatula, Sepik region Papua New Guinea around 1900. - Tribal Art

Wood, 37 cm. The bird shaped spatula represents the link between the living and their ancestors. These containers are made from oblong gourds, used to hold the lime. The finely incised patterns around and near the opening all heightened with lime. Gourd, cassowary bone.

Provenance
Important Belgian private collection.

Specialist: Joris Visser Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34

Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com

21.06.2018 - 17:00

Estimate:
EUR 1,200.- to EUR 1,600.-

Very fine Sepik Lime container with spatula, Sepik region Papua New Guinea around 1900.


Wood, 37 cm. The bird shaped spatula represents the link between the living and their ancestors. These containers are made from oblong gourds, used to hold the lime. The finely incised patterns around and near the opening all heightened with lime. Gourd, cassowary bone.

Provenance
Important Belgian private collection.

Specialist: Joris Visser Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34

Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com


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Auction: Tribal Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 21.06.2018 - 17:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 16.06. - 21.06.2018