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Antiques & Decorative Arts — Webb's

Auction House: Webb's Number of lots recorded: 306
Sale Title: Antiques & Decorative Arts Lots with images: 261
Auction Location: Auckland Prices available: 193
Date: 25/02/2010









Lot Description Price Image
*** A Set of Five Marquetry Panels ex the Saloon of the Vessel 'Moanaroa', each featuring stylised Pacific Island scenes and pictorial motifs. Note: some wear. Each frame Height 46.8 cm. Width 49.2 cm ***
*** A Maori Carved Pare Door or Window Panel, featuring four manaia figures, each with a large paua shell eye inset. Y registration not required. Length 107 cm. Width 26 cm ***
*** A Maori Carved Tourist Art Waka-Taua, the miniature war canoe model supported on an integral carved stand. 'R' cypher to waka underside. Y registration not required. Length 60 cm ***
*** A Maori Carving of a Marakihau, representing a mythical man-fish monster. Paua inset to the eyes and finished in a dark stain. Signed Length J. Taylor. Y registration not required. Length 33 cm ***
*** A Maori Carved Ancestral Panel of a Marakihau, representing a mythical man-fish monster. Paua inset to the eyes and finished in a dark stain. The rear marked 'Maui'. Y registration not required. Length 49.8 cm. Width 20.2 cm ***
*** A Maori Carved Panel of a Wheku Head, with paua shell inset to the eyes. Y registration not required. Length 36.2 cm. Width 17 cm ***
*** A Maori Carved Ancestral Finial Mask, with white painted teeth and large paua shell eye insets, the wood with a dark stain finish.The rear signed Length J. Taylor Rotorua NZ, dated 1973. Y registration not required. Height 38 cm. ***
*** A Tourist Art Wood Carved Wahaika, Length 40 cm ***
*** An Auckland Museum Authentic Reproduction Small Mask, of a tattooed face. Length 15.8 cm ***
*** A Carved Freestanding Maori Ancestral Figure by Length J. Taylor Wood , in a red stain finish, marked 'Poito' and signed to the rear with carver's cypher. Y registration not required. Height 37.8 cm ***
*** A Kauri Carved Maori Ancestral Finial Mask , with paua shell inset to the eyes. Y registration not required. Height 46 cm. Width 19 cm ***
*** A Kauri Wood Carved Maori Ancestral Figure by Huia and Hemi Ranginui , finished in a dark stain and with paua inset to the eyes. Original Pono trade card attached. Height 38 cm. ***
*** Three New Zealand Tourist Art Maori Carved Ancestral Small Masks, in kauri with paua inset to the eyes. Two with a dark stain finish, incised 'R' to the rear. Height 19.6 cm. Height 20.5 cm. Height 15 cm ***
*** A Bone and Wood Carved Replica of a Traditional Maori Fish Hook, incised 'R' to the shank. Length 18 cm ***
*** A Good Contemporary Maori Carved Waka Huia by Patriki Lawrence, in stained southland beech and totara, the treasure box all over carved, the pataka and spiral carving on the lid tells the story of Kupe and his friend Ngate who attacked the pet octopus belonging to Maturangi, God of the sea. A head oateach end represents Kupe and Ngate. Circa 1970s. Width 29 cm. Diameter 12 cm. Height 11.5 cm. ***
*** A Folk Art Maori Taniwha and Tuatara Theme Friendship Box by Jane Brenkley, Signed, the surfaces carved with a number of tuatara and taniwha (paua shell inlay to the eyes), and leaves. With paint effects and stylised Maori decorative motifs with pokerwork details. The lid interior featuring a pokerwork landscape scene of a distant whare on a lakeshore. Pokerwork dedication: 'Alan from Ma Oct 7th 1964. Kind hearts are more than coronets.… ***
*** Roy Cowan Stoneware Large Circular Platter, painted with stylised paddlers in a raft on white water. Diameter 44.5 cm. ***
*** Len Castle Stoneware Scoria Tenmoku Oblong Deep Dish, the well with a pool of pitted and burst glaze bubbles textured surface resembling cooling scoria. Incised initials. Width 33.8 cm. Diameter 28.2 cm. Height 8 cm. ***
*** Len Castle Stoneware Lipped Bowl, the interior walls with vertical incised decoration, iron red and ash glazed. Impressed mark. Height 10 cm. Diameter 25 cm ***
*** A Luke Adams NZ Maori Decorated Small Circular Box, the cover with a stylised manaia figure in low relief (chip on the inner lid rim). Height 4.8 cm. Diameter 5.6 cm ***

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