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The Sunday Art Sale — Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.

Auction House: Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd. Number of lots recorded: 14
Sale Title: The Sunday Art Sale Lots with images: 14
Auction Location: Melbourne Prices available: 11
Date: 24/10/2010









Lot Description Price Image
*** A Sepik River House Post (20th century) carved wood, traces of trade paint carved with male and female ancestral figures and faces on opposing sides 422 cm (height) ***
*** A Fijian Pineapple Head Club (Totokia) (early to mid 20th century) carved wood, natural woven fibre the bulbous carved and pointed head to a cylindrical shaft with geometric incised patterns at the handle with a knobbed end, with 59 finely braided natural fibre rings around shaft (some loose) 75 cm (length) ***
*** A Huon Gulf / Siassi Island Bowl (last half 20th century) carved wood, natural earth pigments carved in the shape of an ancestral bird, without sweeped wings, a tail feather and the carved head holding a fish in its mouth, carved with geometric patterns and infilled with white pigments, raised on circular base 13 (height) x 56.5 (length) x 25 cm (depth) ***
*** A Childs Taiaha (Maori) (late 19th century) carved wood having a carved and decorated spatulate blade tip on a tapering, elliptical shaft, high natural patina 96 cm (length) ***
*** A Maningrida Basket (collected 1980s) coil woven and natural dyed pandanus with handle 37 (diameter) x 55 cm (height) ***
*** A Mendi Highland War Shield (first half 20th century) natural earth pigments, wood, grass fibre 71.5 (height) x 26 cm (width) ***
*** Artist Unknown (Tiwi Island) (circa 1980) Untitled - (Head of a Man) natural earth pigments on carved ironwood 64.5 (height) x 22.5 cm (diameter) ***
*** An Asmat Sago Bowl (Basim Village, Irian Jaya) (last quarter 20th century) carved wood, natural earth pigments the oval shield like bowl, carved in low relief depicting cuscus (tree kangaroo) tail designs, interspersed with a double edged arrow and elliptical shapes, traces of infilled lime and orange pigments, surmounted with a carved male figure with arms outstretched bears a catalogue label Al 11 verso 80 (length) x 32.5 cm (width). Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. ***
*** An Asmat War Shield (Basim Village, Irian Jaya) (last quarter 20th century) carved wood, natural earth pigments the leaf shaped shield having stylised relief carving depicting cuscus (tree kangaroo) tail designs, interspersed with double edged arrows, a carved head protrudes from the top, all infilled with lime, earth and charcoal coloured pigments bears a catalogue label Al 23 verso 150 (length) x 61 cm (width). Provenance: Private collection Melbourne. ***
*** A Drinking Vessel/Medicinal Bowl (Sub-Continent) (late 19th or early 20th century) carved wood, metal the boat shaped vessel is raised on a pinched base having a carved feline head with a metal pipe protruding out of its mouth and a knobbed tail 6 (height) x 24.5 (length) x 10 cm (depth) ***
*** An Aboriginal Brass Breast Plate (King Plate) (New South Wales, 19th century) crescent shaped with holes at either end to support a chain, beneath each hole respectively is a naive impression of a kangaroo and an emu and centred is the inscription "Wilson. King of Koorin Koorin & Cudgen" 12.2 (height) x 17.1cm (width) Provenance Reputedly collected by William Cox (1764-1837). Thence by descent.… ***
*** An Aboriginal brass breast plate (King Plate) (New South Wales, 19th century) crescent shaped with holes at either end to support a chain, off centre is the inscription "Jackey Lewis. Chief of the Bathurft [sic] Tribe" 13 (height) x 14.5 cm (width). Provenance: Reputedly collected by William Cox. Thence by descent. ***
*** An Aboriginal Brass Breast Plate (King Plate) (New South Wales, 19th century) crescent shaped with holes at either end to support a chain, beneath each hole respectively is a naive impression of an emu and a kangaroo and centred is the inscription "Tommy Lincoln Chief of Euroga Barwin River", stamped verso "Wilson" 12.5 (height) x 15.5cm (width) Provenance Reputedly collected by William Cox (1764-1837). Thence by descent. ***
*** An Aboriginal brass breast plate (King & Queen Plate) (Queensland, 19th century) crescent shaped with holes at each end, inscribed 'Tom & Lilly King & Queen Of Reedy Springs', applied verso is a label that reads in part, "Tom and Lilly worked for the Anning Family for fifty years. Reedy Springs Station is 150 miles west of Townsville and North of Hughenden." 10 (height) x 22.5 cm (width). Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's, 5th of May 1988. Private collection Melbourne. ***

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