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Click here to subscribeA Papuan Gulf gope board Papua New Guinea, Melanesia carved with a mask with a raised and pierced nose, within a chevron border and pierced for attachment at the sides and top, with a short handle to the base, with a charred finish and with white and red pigment, 126cm high. Provenance Sotheby's, London, Tribal Art, 6th July 1982, lot 50.
A Papuan Gulf spirit board Papua New Guinea of narrow elliptical form with a knopped top, the front carved a central stylised mask above a circle and sun motif and between spiked chevrons, with earth and white pigment and charred finish, the back inscribed in white 6004 and in yellow NEW GUINEA. WBST.JAN.1899, 111cm long. Provenance William D. Webster, number 6004 Lt. Gen. A.H.L.F Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, acquired from the above 1899. Sotheby's, London, Tribal Art, 27th June 1983, lot 94.
A Papuan Gulf gope board Papua New Guinea, Melanesia of elliptical form with a central mask having a pierced nose and inlaid eyes with four leaf designs surrounding, with a thick white pigment and red stain and charred areas, the top with a circular piercing and with a tapering handle to the base, 155cm high. Provenance Sotheby's, London, Tribal Art, 27th June 1983, lot 116.
A New Ireland kulap figure Papua New Guinea chalk with pigment decoration, the male standing figure with his hands together on the abdomen and with a parted coiffure with parted hatched decoration, 48.5cm high. Provenance Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 25th June 1984, lot 41. The kulap figure represents the recently deceased and are distinctive to Southern New Ireland. A male relative of the deceased would journey to the Rossel Mountains where specialist carvers living near the limestone quarries would provide said figure. On returning to the village the kulap would be placed in a shrine where it served as a temporary abode for the spirits, rather than wandering and harming the living. After a certain period the figures would have been destroyed. The few that have survived would have been sold to visitors as was the practice in the late 19th and early 20th century.
A Fiji cannibal fork Melanesia with four prongs and a swollen handle and knopped terminal, with a white painted inventory number H.778, 26.2cm long. Provenance Methodist Missionary Society, London, UK. James Hooper, Arundel, UK, bought from the above in 1948. Christie's, London, Melanesia & Polynesia Art from the James Hooper Collection, 19 June 1979, lot 130, part. Private Collection. Christie's, London, Tribal Art, 3 July 1990, lot 81, part. Literature Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas; The JamesHooper Collection, 1976, p. 188, pl. 101, no 778.
Art History - Lambourne (Lionel), Victorian Painting, Phaidon, London 1999, h/b, d/j, large 4to; Wood (Christopher), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1999, h/b, d/j, large 4to; Frederic Leighton, 1830 - 1896, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1996, floppy pictorial covers, large 4to; The Art of Photography, 1839 - 1989, Catalogue edited by Mike Weaver, Yale University of Press, 1989, floppy pictorial covers, 4to; Galinou (Mireille) and Hayes (John), London in Paint, Oil Paintings in the Collection at the Museum of London, 1996, h/b, d/j, small heavy folio; Lampo (Hubert), Jan Vaerten, De Sikkel, Anvers 1954, h/b, d/j, 8vo; Koschatzky (Walter), Albrecht Dürer: The Landscape Water-Colours, Academy Editions, London 1973, h/b, d/j, oblong crown folio; other Albrecht Dürer monographs, various, (4); Roman, Medieval, Old Master, Tribal and 19th century art, various (qty)
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