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Fine Australian and International Art and the Collection of Robert Bleakley — Mossgreen Auctions

Auction House: Mossgreen Auctions Number of lots recorded: 98
Sale Title: Fine Australian and International Art and the Collection of Robert Bleakley Lots with images: 94
Auction Location: Melbourne Prices available: 53
Date: 31/05/2010









Lot Description Price Image
*** A good Sepik River wood Food Hook, in the form of a standing human female figure above a janus mask, a snake head at the top of the figure and with a loop handle at the back of the head, good patina ***
*** Two early New Guinea shell Trumpets 30 x 26 cm, fine patina and with circular mouthpiece ***
*** Five Items of New Guinea Jewellery Comprising three pig's teeth necklaces, one with bamboo tube spacers; a clamshell circular pendant and a Massim kula trade conus shell disc with attachments. ***
*** A fine early Papuan Gulf fibre Mask Comprising a stylized human face with raised ridges delineating the features and with traces of pigment remaining, 36 cm. ***
*** Two Solomon Islands stone axe-heads, each of anthropomorphic form 12 cm and 9 cm ***
*** Two New Guinea stone Axe Blades The smaller with painted label 'Adze, New Guinea' and from the Lieutenant General Pitt Rivers Collection; 1890s 17 cm and 13 cm ***
*** A fine New Guinea greenstone Axe Blade Possibly used as a bride price due to its large size and the fine quality of the stone 25 cm ***
*** Two early Papuan bamboo Smoking Pipes 77.5 x 82.5 cm Each with well executed curvilinear decoration ***
*** A Tongan or Samoan Tapa Cloth 167 x 150 cm Well decorated with a striking design of mainly geometric forms in different tones ***
*** A good West New Britain War Shield (Arawe) Of typical form, decorated with incised concentric circular panels on the front and with painted decoration on the reverse ***
*** A fine Massim Lime Spatula The handle in the form of a well-carved human figure and with good incised decoration, old patina 19 cm. (figure); 43 cm overall ***
*** A Solomon Islands golden nautilus shell inlaid wood Chiefs Baton The entire surface inlaid with well-carved geometric shell plaquettes, 37.5 cm ***
*** An early Massim ebony lime Spatula The handle in the form of a crouching figure, with fine incised decoration and old patina, 21 cm ***
*** A Fine early Massim ebony Lime Spatula he handle in the form of a stylized human figure, finely incised decoration and with a very old patina 22.5 cm ***
*** A Fine and Rare Solomon Islands Cult House Bonito Fish Effigy In the form of a finely carved bonito, the entire surface blackened and with elaborate golden nautilus shell inlay overall 79 cm ***
*** An East Sepik Province wood double-sided Figure (mindja) One side with an eroded face with well-carved features, the other with a later face intended to substitute for the earlier face, 72 cm Mindja figures represent the sky and thunder spirits and are shown at ceremonies of the same name ***
*** A good early coastal Sepik orators chair back carved with a powerful face ad retaining much of the original pigment The chair from which this comes would date from the first quarter of the 20th Century and would have had three legs of circular section ***
*** An early Maori greenstone pendant (kapeu) Of highly unusual square section, pierced with a hourglass-shaped hole at the top ***
*** Two early Marshall Islands Ceremonial Woven Mats Each finely made with darkened fibre forming intricate geometric patterns, 78 cm x 78 cm and 114 cm x 114 cm approx. Several very similar mats from the British Museum and identified as coming from Majuro, Marshall Islands illustrated pp.278-281 in Kooijman S. Tapa in Polynesia Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu 1972 ***
*** A rare Maori Flax Bag (kete muka) 22 x 30 cm finely woven in flax fibre and with darkened fibre forming lateral bands ***

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