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Auction House:
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:96
Lots with images:96
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*** A shrine post, Flores Island, Indonesia, 18th-19th century, the post has deeply carved spirit figures either side, with typical Flores scrolled design covering the post, only on the exposed side, weathering has softened the design, missing the extended… ***
*** A fine Taino stone pestle, 1000-1400 AD, Dominican Republic, of dense hard stone carved with a recumbent figure for the handle but the body of the pestle also forms a second figure, minor chips and some white dots of old paint (from when collectors… ***
*** A superb collection of ten graduated metal betel nut crushing implements, Indonesia, constructed in ascending order, all on custom stands. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, length 21.5 cm ***
*** A rare and beautiful Guyana hand club, South America. Provenance: purchased by the vendor at an Estate sale in England, UK, length 73 cm ***
*** Six old kris handles from Java and Bali, 19th century; 'My collection of Kris handles was started in 1985 and I bought many of the first ones from Daeng Iskander, an important Art Dealer in Bali who helped Barbier Mueller build his Indonesian Art… ***
*** Two Northwest Coast carvings, Canada, Haida; one intricately carved miniature totem pole, signed on back 'Raymond Williams, Vancouver Island' circa 1950s, and on the bottom 'This raven pole was by master carver Raymond Williams (Nootka)'; together with a… ***
*** A Javanese mask, 19th century, stamped with insignia of the Sultan of Surakarta verso, showing signs of a heavily faded polychrome decoration to headdress and finely painted features, with custom made stand Provenance: from the private collection of an… ***
*** A striking dark stone disk, Tanimbar Islands, Tenggarah Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia, on custom steel stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, diameter 61 cm ***
*** A monumental wooden door with ancestral figure carved in relief, Nias Island, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia, on custom steel stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 188 x 81 cm ***
*** A pair of Pia Pia figures, Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, these figures were kept in the house and not placed in the tomb. The arms are detachable and held in place with wooden pegs. On custom mounts. Provenance: Ex. Dr. Hugh Gallagher collection,… ***
*** A Granary door, Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia 19th-Early 20th century, an elegant buffalo head and horns dominates the door, a crack on the left has village repair work with strong canework, 72 x 52 x 5 cm ***
*** A pair of Javanese Loro Blonyo figures, 19th century, wood carved male and female figures, polished wood and with painted features, showing some wear with age as some of the skirts have chipped away on both figures. Loro Blonyo is a miniature of… ***
*** A monumental set of rice house steps in hard wood with prominent squatting figure to apex, Tanimbar Islands, Maluku, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 240 cm ***
*** A Saletan sun God pendant with bead chain, Tanimbar Island group, Maluku, Tenggarah Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia, on custom metal stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 13 x 9 cm ***
*** A standing male nude figure, Indonesia, mid 20th century, Condition, Some cracks and unable to stand without support, height 122 cm ***
*** A wooden Anna Deo ancestor figure, Flores, Indonesia, with striking conical hat & deep dark patina. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 73 cm ***
*** A wooden rice loft door with stylised birds carved in high relief, Indonesia, on solid steel custom stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 166 x 43 cm ***
*** An exquisitely carved Garuda head, Indonesia, mid 20th century, shallow and deep carving, the mythological creature represents birth and heaven, height 28 cm, width 22 cm. Provenance: Old Sydney collection, purchased in KlungKun, Bali, circa 1960s ***
*** A set of six finely carved betel nut crushers with bone mortars, Indonesia, all on custom steel stands. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 19-24 cm ***
*** A bronze figure of Shiva, Indonesia, on custom stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 24.5 cm ***
*** A set of four early Dyak tuntuns, Borneo, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 55-81 cm ***
*** A fine Dyak metallic/bronze pubic cover, Indonesia, on custom steel stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 17 x 17 cm ***
*** An ancestor figure, Atoni or Tetum people, West Timor, Indonesia; ancestor figure [ai bahat] early 20th century; in Timor, tattoos signal identity and status. Their talismanic qualities protect the living and the soul after death. He is incised with… ***
*** A fine Balinese bronze figure of a woman, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 41 cm ***
*** A pair of Javanese bronze ancestral figures, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 37-38 cm ***
*** A Ikat Weaving from Sumba Island, Indonesia 20th century, scorpion and stylised figure and supplementary weave on each side, 340 x 130 cm ***
*** An early intricately carved wooden ritual staff, Tunggal Panaluan, Karo Batak people, North Sumatra, carved wood decorated with fibre & hair, stand not included. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 190 cm ***
*** A large engraved wooden Dyak feast platter, Borneo, Indonesia, showing traditional motifs including a frog & a warrior. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, diameter 49 cm ***
*** A Toraja figure, Indonesia on mount (AF) 158 cm ***
*** A large Phallic shaped Kris (ceremonial knife) holder from Bali, the majority of Balinese are Hindu and this represents Shiva Lingga. It has a male and female figure clutching the base of the large erect penis. It is painted in old red lacquer and still… ***
*** Bronze Seahorse shaped vessel, Naga Morsarang, Toba Batak people of Sumatra, the zoomorphic deity with human figures on the back was used for magical potions, the hollow horn shape incised with foliate designs, good patina on a plexiglass stand.… ***
*** A profusely incised lute, Sumatra, Indonesia, good condition, signs of wear with minor chips and splits from age and use. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher Collection, 71 x 10 x 10 cm ***
*** An unusual form bronze bull with stylised horns, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 26 cm L 30 cm ***
*** A wooden Dyak calendar surmounted by an ancestral figure, Borneo, Indonesia, on custom stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 43 cm ***
*** An old and finely carved betel nut accessory box, Flores Island, Indonesia, 19th century; the hardwood box with finely incised geometric and abstract designs over the entire surface except for the bottom and short legs. Provenance: Purchased from Daeng… ***
*** An old Timor female fertility ancestor figure, East Timor, Indonesia; this curvaceous nude female ancestor figure standing with her hands resting together on her swollen pregnant belly. Carved from hardwood, with a patina of age and use. 76 cm ***
*** A West Timor ancestral figure, in hard dark wood, Atoni people, West Timor, Indonesia. Provenance: Collect in situ by Louis McWhinnie in the late 1970's, height 53.5 cm ***
*** A metal mask with bulging eyes and open mouth, Indonesia, 19th/20th century, hair in a top knot and held back with patterned head band, height 19 cm ***
*** A bronze Penis, Indonesia 58 cm ***
*** A large Indonesian figural carved house post modelled as a male father figure with child 161 cm long ***
*** A pair of bronze Dyak earrings, Borneo, Indonesia, on custom steel stands. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 6-6.5 cm ***
*** A carved wooden wall panel with distinctive ancestral figure featuring an elaborate headdress, Nias Islands, Indonesia, swirling incised design to each side. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 50 x 35 cm ***
*** A shield with incised spiral design to face, Bali, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 67 x 15 cm ***
*** A Toraja sword, plain blade with some pitting, handle carved with chicken motif (adjoining circles), hilt with bands of fine plaited fibre, original wooden scabbard with rattan binding. Early twentieth century or nineteenth century, Sulawesi, Indonesia.… ***
*** A Batak Magic staff with carved figures and horse hair head piece, Indonesia, patinated hardwood, male turbanned figure with headdress surmounting a series of seven animal figures and a female figure below. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection,… ***
*** An incised wooden wall plaque featuring a figure with out stretched hands in high relief, Nias Islands, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 63 x 43 cm ***
*** A Dyak food bowl with double Aso dragon heads, Borneo, Indonesia, height 11 cm, length 51 cm ***
*** Gouache on cotton, Harvesting the crop, inscribed lower right, Kt Serus, Penestanan, Ubud Bali, 20th century, 111 x 146 cm ***
*** A pair of dark bronze alloy Buddha, surrounded by a flaming halo, hands in a Teaching mudra, Indonesia, 19th/20th century seated on a cushion decorated with a ribbon above a plain rectangular plinth note: this pair of deities would have sat at the base or… ***
*** Canadian Inuit school, Attack on an Eskimo hunter by a sea lion, (3) soap stone, some incised marks to base height 26 cm, height 19 cm, height 11 cm ***
*** A Nias Banjial figure, Bawa Island, Indonesia, knees slightly bent with palm frond headdress, elongated earrings, male genitalia, sockets in shoulders where arms were formerly attached. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, height 41 cm ***
*** A wooden rice pot with lid surmounted by an ancestral figure, Flores, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 37 cm ***
*** A pair of fine Kannatar coconut shell & bronze neck adornments, Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, early 20th century, stand not included. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 24 cm, diameter 24 cm ***
*** Indonesian School (c. 1960), Old man kissing a Chicken, oil on canvas, signed lower right, indistinct 43 cm x 51 cm ***
*** A Korwar-style figure, in the form of an ancestral figure standing behind a fretwork frieze, heavily weathered, Indonesia. Provenance: The Dr George Soutter and Dr John Yu collection, height 35 cm ***
*** An unusual form bronze Buddha, Bali, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 33 cm ***
*** A fine Batak ceremonial staff, North Sumatra, Indonesia, condition: There is a break on the figure, stand not included. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 126 cm ***
*** A phallic ivory betel nut punch, Indonesia, with metal ring to base, on custom stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 10 cm ***
*** A Javanese Wayang Kulit screen, 19th / 20th century, depicting the traditional theatre puppet figure, finely painted on timber with precise detail to face & robes, 87 cm x 46 cm ***
*** An elegant ancestral figure, with one arm crossed over torso. A/F. Flores Island, Indonesia, 83 cm ***
*** A Sulawesi garden marker, deeply weathered hardwood. A/F, Indonesia, 139 cm ***
*** A bronze alloy Buddha standing on a circular lotus throne raised on a square plinth, Java, Indonesia Provenance: The collection of the late Dr. Peter Elliot, Sydney, thence by descent., height 30 cm ***
*** A Dyak Rhinosceros Hornbill earring in the form of a bird, Borneo, Indonesia, worn by qualified head hunters. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, purchased Kuching, 1982, 12 x 6 cm ***
*** A wooden Leti ancestral figure, Indonesia, in classic form with hands clasping knees. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 49 cm ***
*** A wooden bust, Flores, Indonesia, encrusted patina with areas of wear. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 32 x 13 cm ***
*** A finely carved Dyak paddle, Borneo, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 136 cm ***
*** An early intricately carved wooden ritual staff, Tunggal Panaluan, Karo Batak people, North Sumatra, carved wood decorated with fibre & hair. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 190 cm ***
*** Two rice Barn gable panels, decorated with chickens and curvilinear spiral design to base. One has crack near top. A/F. Mounted on steel stands. Saadan, Toraja, Sulawesi, Indonesia, height 90 cm and 107 cm ***
*** A Javanese puppet show lamp, 19th century / early 20th century, of wood with polychrome paint, the open work panel depicting mythical creature atop a circular pot holder with bronze pot insert Provenance: from the private collection of an Australian… ***
*** A Balinese painted 'Palintangan' calendar, mid 20th century. A Balinese painted 'Palintangan' calendar, mid 20th century, well mounted on board and framed, this hand drawn and painted Art work depicts various figural forms and script in each panel. The… ***
*** A copper Printing block with a bird and Foliage and a betel nut pestle with bird horn handle, Indonesia, height 23-16 cm ***
*** A carved, signed Inuit figure of mother and child ***
*** A bronze horse, Lombok, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 30 cm L 33 cm ***
*** A fine wooden ancestral figure carved in relief, Indonesia, on custom steel stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 71 cm ***
*** An Ikat Weaving,Toraja people, Sulawesi, Indonesia, length 400 cm, width 49 cm ***
*** A large Dense hardwood carving, Preparing for the Cock Fight, Tajen, Bali, mid 20th century, an ancient religious purification ritual, the man and his attire well delineated, and the intricately carved woven basket suspended above the rooster, made by a… ***
*** Painted Beam from a Weaving Loom, Nusa Panida, Bali, mid 20th century, each side with sarong clad dancing figures on white ground, birds flying overhead and other auspicious symbols, the tapered beam slotted to fit the cross beam, on fitted metal stand,… ***
*** A short spear, Tombak, with a Parmor iron blade on a cylindrical hardwood shaft, Java, Indonesia 17th-19th century, in polished wood sheath. Provenance: A businessman who spent a decade travelling the Islands of Indonesia. Length 50 cm ***
*** A large Indonesian mythical turtle lion ***
*** An antique Balinese traditional painting ***
*** A Southern Nias Bao Mattalui ancestral figure, Indonesia, thickset male warrior with earring, necklace and betel nut pounders, he is wearing a helmet with crest. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher Collection, 43 x 14 x 15 cm ***
*** A betel crusher in the form of a human head, Sumba, Indonesia. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, height 12.5 cm ***
*** A bone tribal prayer cross, Leti Islands, Indonesia, with profuse incised design. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 18 cm ***
*** A carved bone devotional stand, Tanimbar Island group, Maluku, Tenggah Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia, with profusely incised design, on custom stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, height 24 cm ***
*** A pair of silver & bone drop earrings, Flores, Indonesia, on custom steel stand. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, length 6 cm ***
*** A bronze frog surmounted by another frog, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 20 x 26 cm ***
*** A profusely carved Balinese mirror stand, Indonesia. Provenance: The Andrew Korda & Susan Pearson collection, 20 x 15 cm ***
*** Carved wooden figure of an Indonesian fisherman ***
*** A pair of Weaving Loom decorations, in the stylised form of horses, dark glossy patina, Sumba Islands, Indonesia, length 33 & 39 cm ***
*** An old ancestral figure, with hands clasped across chest, Indonesia (probably Timor), height 49 cm ***
*** A massive carving, being Fed before the Cock Fight, Tajen, an ancient religious Purification ritual, Bali, mid 20th century, the composition well delineated by a master carver, height 41 diameter 30 cm ***
*** A cast metal medicine horn, Naga Marsarang, the zoomorphic creature has a curled tail, Sumatra, Indonesia, 20th century, the mixture contained a magic potion that enabled the user to communicate with the Gods, on an elaborated fitted display stand.… ***
*** A Batak Parang, Solaic village, Sumatra, Indonesia, bone handle with Singa to eat a man, exquisite ornamented bone scabbard, old blade of local manufacture, complete but rusty, beautiful old glossy patina. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection,… ***
*** A Batak Parang, Ambaritja village, Toba, Indonesia, bone and wood, a complex figurative hilt and patterned scabbard, old blade, complete. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, collected Indonesia, 1980, length 55 cm ***
*** A Toba ceremonial Wand, Indonesia, elongated single figure, long headdress of hair, shaft partially wrapped with ijuk fibre. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, height 42 cm ***
*** An East Sumba Mamuli, Indonesia. Provenance: The Hugh Gallagher collection, collected Bali, 1972, 13 x 13 cm ***