Maori, Oceanic & African Art • Asian Arts

4 - 6 APRIL 2023

M ĀORI, OCEANIC & AFRICAN ART

T uesday 4 A pril 2023 - 3 pm start

Lot 1 - 382

Wednesday 5 A pril 2023 - closing from 6pm

New Collectors Oceanic & African Arts - Timed Online Auction

Lot 501 - 887

ASIAN ARTS

Thursday 6 A pril 2023 - 3 pm start

Lot 900 - 1110

WELLINGTON VIEWING

Friday 31 March 9am - 4pm

Sunday 2 April 12noon - 3pm

Monday 3 April 9am - 4pm

Tuesday 4 April 9am - 3pm

LOCATION

Kiwi Wealth House, 94 Featherston Street Wellington CBD PO Box 224, Wellington 6140

ENQUIRIES

James Parkinson +64 4 472 1367 james@dunbarsloane.co.nz

cover illustration: Whalebone Kotiate (Hand Club) Est $6,000 - $12,000

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Protected Objects Act 1975

Please note that many of the pieces in the Taonga tuturu section of this catalogue have been registered under the Protected Objects Act. This is referred to as Y registration. Under the terms of this act items that are Y registered may not be sold to non New Zealand residents and may not leave the country without the consent of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. To purchase any Y registered item you must be a registered collector. To register as a collector you must apply to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (info@mch.govt.nz). There are a number of pieces in the this catalogue which had not completed the registration process before the catalogue went to print and they have been designated Y number pending. These pieces are currently being registered by The Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa. For further information on Y registration and the registered items in this catalogue contact James Parkinson at james@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Valuations of Taonga Tuturu and Oceanic Art

James Parkinson and Dunbar Sloane are the foremost experts in this field in New Zealand having valued numerous collections including the Te Papa Maori and Pacific art collection, the Hawkes Bay Museum Maori and Pacific art collection, the Rotorua Museum collection of the Buried Village, the collections of the Maori King, the Heritage New Zealand collection as well as taonga associated with numerous marae across New Zealand.

To arrange insurance or market valuations of taonga contact:

Dunbar Sloane

(09) 377 5820

auckland@dunbarsloane.co.nz

James Parkinson

(04) 472 1367

james@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Over the last two years Dunbar Sloane have completed the valuation of the Te Papa Art and Applied art collection, the Te Papa Maori and Oceanic collection, the Government House collections in Auckland and Wellington, the Nelson museum collection, the National Library Photographic collection.

Our valuers cover all areas and have completed valuation for:

• Te Papa Tongarewa

• National Library

• Sarjeant Gallery

• The Canterbury Museum

• The Auckland War Memorial Museum

• The Rotorua Museum: Te Whare Taonga o te Arawa

• The Waikato Museum: The Whare Taonga o Waikato

• Napier Museum and Library

• Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga

• Kingitangi Taonga: Collections of the Maori King

• Whakatane Museum

• Archives New Zealand

• Parliamentary Services

• Te Puni Kokiri: Ministry of Maori Development

• Auckland City Council

• Wellington City Council

• Government House Wellington

• Government House Auckland

• Nelson Provincial Museum

• Massey University

New Zealand’s Leading Valuers

From the Treaty of Waitangi to the nation’s treasures held at Te Papa, our five senior valuers are some of the most trusted and experienced chattel valuers in the country. We have valued approximately $2 billion worth of chattels in the last 12 months.

We are pleased to present our first specialist Oceanic and Asian art catalogue for 2023. This catalogue follows on from our last three specialist catalogues. Our previous Oceanic sales have achieved outstanding results and have set a number of auction records for the sale of taonga in New Zealand.

We are the market leaders in this field and the only auction house in New Zealand to hold regular catalogued sales in this area. These auctions are undertaken in strict accordance with the Protected Object Act (1975) All items of taonga tuturu that fall under the act have been registered and carry a registration number which designates the taonga can only be sold to registered collectors and prohibits the items from leaving New Zealand. Like our previous catalogues, this catalogue includes a significant number of pieces that have been repatriated to New Zealand from overseas. These pieces have now been registered by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and will now remain in New Zealand. These specialist catalogues provide a venue for this to occur, and we are in ongoing discussions with collectors from overseas who are looking to repatriate taonga from overseas. We are very happy to be able to facilitate this process through these catalogues and to bring this important taonga back home to New Zealand.

This catalogue features several significant collections of Oceanic art including the collection of Bob Ching, John Perkins, and Barby Barclay. An insight into the lives of these collectors and there collecting is offered on the following pages.

This catalogue also includes a dedicated Asian art auction. These sales will now be a regular feature on our auction calendar. In the area of Asian art and antiques we offer our clients expertise that is unrivalled in New Zealand.

This sale features many outstanding pieces of Asian art including a large carved huanghuali dragon panel dating from the 19th century. This rare and superb piece was collected by the vendors in Shanghai and then bought back to New Zealand. Due to a change of life circumstances, they have decided to offer the piece for sale alongside other fine pieces of Chinese furniture and textiles from their superb collection.

Also included in the Asian catalogue is the finest offering of Tibetan pieces ever to come to the market in New Zealand. Many of these pieces were collected by the renowned British artist Geoffrey Key both in Asia and in England. They have been held in a New Zealand collection for the last fifteen years. This collection is discussed further in an essay on page 42 of the catalogue. Other important collections of Asian art are also included in the catalogue including the collection of Lieutenant Colonel Raynar-Smith who was stationed in Shanghai in the 1930s and the collection of Josette Bryan who put together a collection of Korean and Chinese pottery whilst living in Korea in the 1970s. This collection has been on long term loan at Te Papa Tongarewa and is now being offered for sale.

We hope that you enjoy reading this catalogue and we look forward to welcoming you at the viewing.

Dunbar Sloane Managing Director

James Parkinson Head of Māori and Oceanic Art

Bob Ching Collection

Bob Ching was a passionate and fastidious collector of taonga, fossils, bones and goldmining and sea fairing memorabilia. A Nelson based collector, with a family lineage dating back to the early settlers arriving on the ‘Will Watch’ in Nelson in 1841, Bob always felt a strong connection to Nelson and the West Coast and a deep and abiding interest the geology, fauna, and artefacts of the region. As a young man forging his career as a ship’s engineer in the 1960s Bob was able to travel around the South Island and to the Chatham Islands by sea. This enabled him to study the various New Zealand coastlines and venture further inland to the more remote areas of the South Island. His early travels piqued his interest in early New Zealand history, geology, and collecting. By the 1970s Bob had developed a keen interest in goldmining and went to work on the goldfields in Greymouth. Whilst working with the modern gold mining machinery provided him increased acuity as an engineer, more importantly he was able to pursue his interest in geology, a subject that would become a lifelong passion. In the late eighties Bob travelled as a ship’s engineer to Norway, South Africa, and many arpeggios in the South Pacific, including the Pitcairn Islands. The Pitcairn’s volcanic environment held a special interest for Bob and he spent many hours examining and collecting the early basalt artefacts scattered in and around Bounty Bay. In 1998, Bob discovered the laughing owl fossil alongside 17 other species in Greymouth when he went looking in an area of limestone rock recently exposed near Cobden Bridge. This significant find was a virtual treasure trove of fossils and bones from species, some of which have been extinct in New Zealand for up to 1700 years, including Finsch’s duck, little spotted kiwi, and Moa. There were also tuatara, skink, and Markham frog remains.

Bob was also a regular buyer of taonga, decorative art and antiques at Dunbar Sloane auctions where he amassed a significant collection. In his own words a “life’s experience thoroughly enjoyed” Bob Ching, was a sea fairing adventurer, who travelled the world examining, meticulously cataloguing, and collecting geological fauna and artefacts. In this catalogue we are pleased to offer the Bob Ching collection. Items include basalt artefacts from the Pitcairn Islands, bones and fossils from his quarry finds, and important taonga. Of note are two superb hei tiki (lots 47, 50), a whale bone kotiate (lot 43), and a good 18th century mere pounamu (lot 46).

John Perkins Collection

After 12 years flying with the Royal Navy, in 1965 John Perkins emigrated to Australia with his Australian wife where he completed studies for an Australian pilot’s license. Subsequently, he accepted a job with Territory Airlines where he took up flying duties mainly flying Cessnas and light twins around the Madang Province on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. Madang has many of the country’s highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. John and his wife loved Madang and were keen to settle there.

After two years they began to open small trade stores in the bush in places only accessible by plane. By 1969 they had established seven of these and decided to purchase their own Cessna 185. They then started buying raw coffee beans from the locals in the Ramu Valley and the Highlands, shipping them to a coffee exporter in Lae. In the early 70’s a severe frost in the main coffee growing area of Brazil decimated a large portion of their crop forcing up the price threefold in a matter of weeks. This encouraged more locals to plant coffee and for John to buy a second Cessna to meet the demand. John was constantly being offered artefacts by the locals and initially bought some for himself and then to sell to dealers in Madang and elsewhere in the Territory.

By the mid 70’s with three young children John and his wife realised they would need to move south for their secondary education. After holidaying in NZ in 1976 they decided to settle in Queenstown, moving there in 1978 along with a very large collection of artefacts. We are pleased to offer a superb selection of Ramu River paddles, ornate house boards and shields, feast bowls, carved figures, and body adornments from Johns extensive early 1970s Madang Province collection.

Barbara Barclay Collection

Barby Barclay has always been an avid student of pottery, both as a maker and a collector. Whilst living in Papua New Guinea with her Husband Bill from 1968 – 1975, she made many expeditions to the highlands and outlying areas to learn local potting techniques and to collect pottery and other local art, and in some cases get her hands in the clay with the local pottery makers. Her first tour in 1968 was to the pottery villages on the Yuat and the Chambri Lakes region with well-known art dealer Ron Perry. In Perry’s book on Papua New Guinean art “Art Dealer in the Last Unknown” Barby writes that the trip was a highlight of her life. As a potter she was keen look at every pot possible and when they arrived at places like Dimitri (on the Yuat River) Ron made a point of telling everyone to bring out pots. Following this trip, Barby was commissioned to publish a detailed article in “Pottery Australia” about pottery making techniques in the East Sepik. Barby made another trip with well-known potter Margaret Tuckson who together with Patricia May went on to publish the seminal reference book “The Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea.”

Barby returned to New Zealand in 1975 with her large pottery collection, of which we are delighted to offer the remaining pieces. Among these are a selection of coiled clay raku fired cooking vessels and various ceramic ornaments. Of special note are two raku fired mythological roof gable figures from the Aibom Village known for its highly innovative zoomorphic motifs made in high relief and the precious value of these items for exchange.

Tuesday 4 April 3pm start

Lot 1 - 382

BOB CHING COLLECTION LOTS 1–85

1

Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Thick tapering quadrangular form, poll uneven, well defined lateral edges, polished throughout. Chipped to blade. 15cm length. Y08324

$150 - $250

2

A Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone) Tapering quadrangular form, rounded poll with incipient hammer dressed tang, well defined lateral edges, uneven bevel with small amount of fritting to the cutting edge. 20cm length. Y17731

$250 - $350

3

Pre-European Roughout With Tang (Argillite) Clear tapering quadrangular form with tang, smooth face with heavily flaked lateral edges and underside. 27cm length. Y22076

$400 - $800

4

Three Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Hammer dressed and flaked in areas with polished bevel. The lager toki displays a hammer pecked tang. 16.5cm, 12cm, 10cm length. Y21949, Y21948, Y2147

$200 - $400

5

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Thick quadrangular form with incipient hammer dressed tang, small amount of fritting to the cutting edge. 26cm length. Y08957

$600 - $800

6

Large Limestone Toki Tapering quadrangular shape. Polished face with some natural scarring to the stone, the sedimentary layers are evident through the lateral edges and underside. Chips to the blade. 22cm length. Y22077

$300 - $500

7

Unusual Agillite Toki With Curved End Section Flaked lateral edges and centre ridge line to the face. 27cm length. Y3730

$1,000 - $2,000

8

A Good Pre-European Toki (Greywacke) Tapering quadrangular form with well defined lateral edges. Poll uneven, highly polished throughout with evidence of heat treatment. 26cm length. Y 8082

$800 - $1,200

9 Large Roughout (Greywacke)

35cm length. Y22075

$1,000 - $2,000

10

Large Hogback Shape Roughout (Greywacke)

32cm length. Y22078

$600 - $800

11

A Pounamu Polishing Slate (Greywacke)

9cm length. Y22081

$100 - $200

12

Worked Pounamu Incipient bevel and clear cutting edge. 18cm length. Y22085

$300 - $500

13

A Pre-European Toki Pounamu Kawakawa variety stone, chipped to poll, natural scarring to the back, some fritting to the blade. 9cm length. Y4961

$250 - $350

14

A Pre-European Toki Pounamu Kawakawa variety stone. Poll uneven, the face and back show some natural scarring, polished bevel and blade. Small chip to the sharp cutting edge. 9cm length. Y15386

$300 - $500

15

A Pre-European Toki Pounamu Inanga variety stone, tapering form with uneven poll, some losses.

8.5cm length. Y1949

$200 - $300

16

Pre-European Toki Poumanu Kawakawa variety stone. Tapering quadrangular shape, with lapidary scarfing to the face bisecting the poll section. Polished surface throughout. 10cm length. Y22083

$300 - $500

17

A Pre-European Toki Pounamu Kawakawa variety stone, poll and upper section broken away, scarfing to the right lateral edge, cutting edge sharp. Small amount of fritting to the blade.

17cm length. Y15119

$1,000 - $2,000

18

A Large Pre-European Toki Pounamu Inanga variety stone, poll uneven, rounded lateral edges, slightly rounded cutting edge but intact. Polished throughout.

25cm length. Y4682

$2,000 - $4,000

19

A Pre-European Toki Pounamu Broad quadrangular form, the surface of the face uneven with natural scaring, polished bevel with a straight sharp cutting edge.

17cm length. Y15115

$2,000 - $3,000

20

Partially Formed Toki Pounamu And Whao Chisel Bisected By A Lapidary Scarf Kawakawa variety stone. Polished with sharp cutting edge. 10cm length. Y1943

$500 - $800

21

Large Pre-European Toki Pounamu

Kawakawa variety stone with significant brown inclusion covering the right side. Tapering quadrangular shape with scarfing along the left lateral edge. Polished surface throughout with hammer dressed area to the poll face. Two small chips to the sharp cutting edge. 30cm length. Y1719

$3,000 - $5,000

22

A Large Mahe (Stone Sinker) With a deeply recessed lashing groove around the circumference. 13cm length. Y22069

$200 - $300

23

Large Volcanic Stone Punga (Anchor Stone)

18cm at widest point. Y22060

$200 - $300

24

A Large Punga (Anchor Stone) Volcanic stone with lashing grooves. Discovered at Te Anau. 27cm length

$200 - $400

25

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Volcanic stone with lashing grooves around the circumference. 9cm length. Y22073

$150 - $250

26

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Volcanic stone with lashing grooves. 9cm length. Y22074

$200 - $300

27

Pa Kahawai (Trolling Lure) The two piece hook with paua shell affixed to the wooden shank and bone barb with muka lashing. 10cm length. Y733

$1,500 - $2,500

28

Pa Kahawai (Trolling Lure) The two piece hook with paua shell shank and bone barb with muka lashing. 10cm length. Y2691

$1,000 - $2,000

29

Eight Bone Fishhook Barbs

Various Y numbers

$400 - $800

30

Eight Small Shell Matau (Fishhooks) Various Y numbers

$400 - $800

31

Three Bone Hei Matau (Fishhooks)

Various Y numbers

$200 - $300

33

Fish Jaw Bone Pendant Displaying tooth recesses, pierced for suspension. End broken away. 8cm length. Y14276

$400 - $800

34

Five Bone Awl (Needles) With sharp points and eyelets. Various Y numbers

$300 - $500

35

A Large Bone Awl (Needle) With sharp point and eyelet. 12cm length

$100 - $200

36

A Whale Bone Fid (Rope Splicing Tool) 20.50cm length

$400 - $800

37

Assorted Pre-European Tools (Six Pieces) Including a pounamu awl, volcanic stone awl, limestone whao, shell pa kahawai shank, volcanic stone shank, and worked stone. Various Y numbers

$200 - $400

38

Six Bone Uhi (Ta Moko Chisels)

Various Y numbers

$400 - $800

39

Four Bone Uhi (Ta Moko Chisels)

Various Y numbers

$400 - $800

40

Patu Aruhe (Fern Root Beater) Tapering form with rounded end. 16cm length. Y13192

$300 - $500

41

Mutu Kaka (Bird Perch Snare) Carved from a single piece of wood, perch section slightly curved terminating in manaia face. Wheku figure to shank with fingers to belly and bent knees. 23cm x 24cm. Y08052

$1,000 - $2,000

42

A Patu Onewa (Stone Hand Club) Argillite, tapering spatulate shape with a countersunk hole for suspension, the butt terminating with three graduating grooves. Chip to the blade edge. 36cm length. Y1900

$600 - $800

43

A Good Whalebone Kotiate (Hand Club) Traditional lobed blade with the handle pierced for suspension terminating in a carved wheku head.

33cm length. Y18251

$6,000 - $12,000

45

A Good Early 19th Century Patu Pararoa (Whale Bone Hand Club) Classic spatulate shape reducing to the grip section, the butt terminating in six graduating grooves. Heavily grained bone surface with a small area of shallow natural indentation to the upper section on one side.

37cm length. Y22089

$3,500 - $5,000

46

A Good 18th Century Mere Pounamu Fired inanga variety stone. Classic tapering spatulate shape terminating in three concentric grooves at the butt. Pierced for suspension with a countersunk hole. 32cm length. Y1738

$12,000 - $18,000

47

A Superb 18th Century Hei Tiki Type I form with both hands to thighs, carved in highly prized Kahurangi pounamu. Facial features finely carved but worn, inlaid paua eyes and red ceiling wax embellishment. Some natural scaring to the back of the head. Provenance: Webster Collection. 7cm length. Y09308

$12,000 - $16,000

48

An Impressive 18th Century Hei Tiki Carved in kawakawa variety stone. Well defined facial features with deeply recessed double ringed eyes clear nasal ridge and mouth displaying three teeth. Thick muscular shoulders and torso carved with three ribs, both hands to thighs. Left lower leg broken away. 11cm length. Y22058

$6,000 - $12,000

50

A Rare And Important 18th Century Hei Tiki Type II form with left hand resting on the chest carved in unusual grey stone with white inclusions.

Provenance; Dr. Carlo Monzino (1931-1996) Collection New York.

$12,000 - $18,000

51

Early 20th Century Hei Tiki Kawakawa variety stone, rudimentary facial features, both arms resting on thighs. Lower leg section broken away. 6cm length. Y4888

$500 - $1,000

52

Huia Beak Broach With 9ct embossed gold mounts. 9cm length

$4,000 - $8,000

53

A Moa Bone Spine 20 vertebrae and a tail bone. Some missing.

77cm length

$400 - $800

53a

A Large Collection Of Rare Bones Found In The Greymouth Quarry By Bob Ching Including little spotted kiwi, moa, Finsch's duck, tuatara and skink

$1,000 - $2,000

54 Peter Power (1834 - 1918)

Taiaroa Head, Otago Harbour With Māori Figures And Boats Oil on canvas

Signed and dated N.Z ‘87’ 25 x 45cm

$3,000 - $5,000

55

A Large Sperm Whale Tooth

18cm length

$400 - $800

56

A Sperm Whale Tooth 14cm length

$300 - $500

57 A Sperm Whale Tooth 15cm length $300 - $500

58

A Sperm Whale Tooth With Later Scrimshaw 16cm length $300 - $500

59

Two Sperm Whale Teeth 11cm, 10cm, 8cm length $300 - $500

60

Two Fossilised Whale Beaks Some losses. 62cm, 58cm length $500 - $800

61

Three Fossilised Whale Bones Largest 56cm length $400 - $800

62

Four Fossilised Whale Bones Largest 56cm length $400 - $800

63

A Large Red Volcanic Polishing Stone From The Pitcairn Islands 37cm length $400 - $800

64

Two Peining Stones From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) For finer finish on stonework before polishing $50 - $100

65

Two Awls And Two Worked Stone From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

66

Three Spherical Hammer Stones From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $200

67

Five Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

68

Five Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

69

Five Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

70

Five Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

71

Five Adze Roughouts From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

72

Four Adzes From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) Heavily flaked. $100 - $300

73

Four Hammer Stones From Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

74

Six Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

75

Seven Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

76

Eight Awls From The Pitcairn Islands $100 - $300

77

Four Large Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

78

Eight Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

79

Seven Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

80

Five Small Adzes From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt)

Flaked with some polished area. $100 - $300

81

Seven Small Adze Roughout Fragments From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

82

Four Adze Roughouts From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) Long slender tapering shapes. 24cm - 18cm length $300 - $500

83

Two Adzes And A Roughout From The Pitcairn Islands Heavily flaked. 19cm, 17cm, 16.5cm length $150 - $250

84

Five Small Adze Roughouts From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

85

Seven Awls From The Pitcairn Islands (Basalt) $100 - $300

86

A Carved Wood Māori Desk Stand With Glass Ink Well Decorated with carved wheku heads and manaia with inlaid paua. 22cm x 30cm $200 - $300

87

A Carved Wood Māori Box With intricately carved wheku head. 10cm x 10cm

$100 - $200

88

A Wooden Māori Box With Embossed Sterling Siver Lid The lid displays a wheku figure, fern, and kiwi framing a central photo depicting two wahine. 8cm x 10cm

$150 - $250

89

Two Carved Wood Māori Boxes Decorated with wheku heads and inlaid paua. 10cm x 13cm, 10cm x 14cm $100 - $200

90

Two Carved Wood Māori Boxes Decorated with wheku heads and inlaid paua. 9cm x 15cm, 10cm x 14cm $100 - $200

91

Two Carved Wood Māori Boxes Decorated with wheku heads and inlaid paua. 9cm x 16cm, 9cm x 13cm

$100 - $200

92

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Broad flat traditional quadrangular form with well defined lateral edges and bevel. Some flaking to the poll section. 20cm length. Y22051

$300 - $500

93

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Tapering quadrangular shape, well defined bevel with large flake to the lower right section of the face.

19cm length. Y22056

$200 - $300

94

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Tapering form with rounded hammer pecked lateral edges and uneven flaked poll section. Chip to left side of the blade section of the face. 17cm length. Y22047

$150 - $250

95

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Quadrangular form with rounded hammer pecked poll, cutting edge intact. 19cm length. Y22049

$150 - $250

96

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite)

Quadrangular form with rounded hammer pecked poll, cutting edge intact. 16cm length. Y22046

$150 - $250

97

A Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone)

Tapering quadrangular form, rounded poll. 16cm length. Y22045

$150 - $250

98

A Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone)

Quadrangular form with well defined lateral edges, even poll and bevel. Minor fritting to the cutting edge. 15cm length. Y22050

$150 - $250

99

Two Pre-European Toki (Argillite) One with rounded poll and hammer pecked surface with blade sharp and intact. The other broken away poll and hammer pecked along the right lateral edge, considerable fritting to the blade.

9cm, 8cm length. Y22113, Y22114

$150 - $250

100

A Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone) Thick quadrangular form, even poll carved with concentric grooves, the bevel bisected with a ridge, cutting edge rounded with some fritting. Hammer pecking to the lateral edges and face. 24cm length. Y22123

$300 - $500

101

A Large Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone) Thick quadrangular form narrowing to the blade section. Rounded poll, and small double sided bevel. Some chipping to the lower section and cutting edge. 26cm length. Y22124

$400 - $800

102

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Course volcanic stone. 8cm height. Y21680 $200 - $300

103

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Volcanic stone with lashing grooves. 9cm length. Y22131 $100 - $200

104

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Argillite with lashing groove around the circumference. 7cm length. Y22132 $100 - $200

105

A Punga (Anchor Stone) 10cm length. Y22120 $150 - $250

106

Three Mahe (Stone Sinkers) with lashing grooves around the circumference. One inscribed with ‘Pakawau’’. 8cm, 7cm, 6cm length. Y21779, 2 x Y21783 $400 - $800

107

A Large Mahe (Stone Sinker) With lashing groove around the circumference. 12cm length. Y21801

$300 - $500

108

A Small Punga (Anchor Stone) 6.5cm length. Y221111 $100 - $200

109

A Patu Muka (Fern Root Pounder) Made in argillite stone, four concentric grooves to the handle base and bottom section. 22cm length. Y22129

$600 - $800

110

A Patu Muka (Fern Root Pounder) Made in volcanic stone, well defined grip section with three concentric grooves carved to the handle base. Hammer pecked surface. 20cm length. Y22128

$600 - $800

111

A Patu Muka (Fern Root Pounder) Made in Argillite stone, oval cross section with hammer pecked surface. Three concentric grooves to the handle base. 21cm length. Y22127

$400 - $600

112

Patu Aruhe (Fern Root Beater) Tapered down to handle end, body shows a large hollow indentation, reverse showing a long indentation. Considerable degradation. 36cm length. Y21515

$100 - $200

113

A Patu Muka (Fern Root Pounder) Well fashioned in argillite stone, lightly hammer pecked surface with four concentric grooves carved to the handle base. 24cm length. Y22055

$800 - $1,200

114

A Patu Muka (Fern Root Pounder) Made in stone, defined grip section and handle base. Some scarring to one side of the body. 23cm length. Y22054

$400 - $600

116

A 20th Century Wahaika By Norman Clark Carved wood and applied paua, with wheku figure and face to the grip section. 40cm length

$300 - $500

Early Contact Period Mere Pounamu (Short Bladed Nephrite Weapon) Crafted from kawakawa variety pounamu, with spatulate blade. The blade tapers to the reduced grip section with countersunk suspension hole terminating in three reducing grooves.

Provenance: Reputed to have belonged to the important Taranaki Nagti Ruanui Chief, military leader, peacemaker and prophet Riwha Titokowaru

28cm length. Y22176

$12,000 - $18,000

118

A Large Wahaika Paraoa (Short Bladed Whale Bone Weapon) Carved with a manaia figure to the inner blade curve, the handle reducing to the grip section with pierced circular straight drilled suspension hole, the butt terminating in a carved wheku head. 60cm length.

$3,500 - $5,000

119

An Early 20th Century Kotiate (Short Club) A large carved wood kotiate with rauponga spirals, haehae, and pakati design, the grip section terminates in a stylized human form head. Complete with custom made stand. 47cm height

$3,000 - $5,000

120

An Early 20th Century Taiaha (Fighting Staff) The Arero (tongue) and lower section finely carved with rauponga spirals and pataki. Inlaid paua to the Upoko (head) and shaft, some missing.

120cm length. Y number pending

$500 - $800

121

An Early 20th Carved Wood Kotiate Carved with raupunga spirals and pakati, inlaid paua to the mid-section. Grip pierced for suspension.

36cm length. Y22177

$4,000 - $5,000

122

Pre-European Patu Onewa (Stone Hand Club) Basalt short hand club, spatulate shape reducing to the grip, three concentric grooves to the butt. Mid and upper section is lacquered. Countersunk suspension hole. Chip to the butt, some fritting to the blade.

30cm length. Y864

$800 - $1,200

123

A 19th Century Mere Pounamu Carved in kawakawa variety stone with pale inclusion to one side of the grip. Six concentric bands carved to the butt, pierced for suspension. 37cm length. Y886

$8,000 - $12,000

124

Pounamu Pekapeka Inanga variety stone, fine grained with light brown inclusions. Manaia head to left and right with a single elongated hole in between. Countersunk lugged suspension hole.

7cm length. Y10992

$2,500 - $3,500

125

A Large Pounamu Kuru (Pendant) Kawakawa variety stone with Marsden inclusions to one lateral edge and rounded tip. Straight, even, and polished. 20cm length. Y21671

$800 - $1,200

126

A Kuru Pendant Smooth translucent kahurangi variety stone with a countersunk hole and a gold mount. 12cm length. Y21971

$300 - $500

127

Inanga Kuru Pendant Pale Inanga with white inclusions, scarfing on one lateral edge, damaged and repaired at end. Countersunk suspension hole.

12cm length, Y21867

$200 - $400

128

A Rare And Important Aurei (Cloak Pin) Collected by Reverend Henry Williams. Marine ivory, early contact period, crescent shape with countersunk hole. Yellow patina to the surface.

Provenance: Collected by Reverend Henry Williams and then passed on by descent to his son Thomas Williams and then to his granddaughter the New Zealand artist Eila Williams. 13.5cm length. Y15295

$1,500 - $2,500

129

Andrew McGregor Pounamu Hei Tiki Carved in kawakawa variety stone with inlaid paua eyes, hands displaying fingers resting on the chest and back. Traditionally carved suspension hole countersunk through the back of the head. Binding with pounamu toggle. 9cm height

$1,000 - $1,200

131

Three Muka Kete Made with Harakeke fiber (NZ flax). 31cm, 30cm, 26cm height

$100 - $200

132

Tangiwai Pekapeka (Bowenite Pendant) Well carved in translucent Tangiwai. Janus heads with circular eyes and an asymmetrical suspension hole.

6cm x 4.5 cm. Y21869

$4,000 - $6,000

133

A Kauri Gum Bust Of A Māori Chief With ta moko wearing a cloak. 25cm height

$2,500 - $3,500

134

A Pou Whakairo Carved In The Manner Of A Māori Burial Chest Carved Totora, small square recess to the anterior, c1920s. 90cm height. Y number pending

$3,000 - $5,000

135

A Late 19th Century Architectural Board Probably a section of a Mahi (Barge board). Carved with a side profile wheku head with protruding tongue. Remnants of one paua shell eye remaining with the other one absent. 50cm x 40cm. Y21903

$3,000 - $4,000

136

A Mutu Kaka (Bird Perch) Carved wood with suspension hole. 23cm height. Y22145

$300 - $500

137

A 19th Century Tokotoko (Traditional Carved Walking Stick) Attributed To Jacob William Heberley (1849-1906). Naturalistic Carved figure with ta-moko surmounting three wheku heads. The figures all with inset cut paua shell eyes (one missing) and decorated with triple haehae and pakati (dog tooth) notching. The head conjoined with a wheku head forming the handle. 96cm height. Y22178

$3,500 - $8,000

138

A 19th Century Finely Carved Ngati Tarawhai Tokotoko Finely carved rauponga with wheku figure to the handle section with janus weku head to the mid-section of shaft. Vertical split to the length of shaft. Raised on a metal stand. 68cm height. Y21013

$4,000 - $5,000

139

A Rare Pre-European Stone Tooled Carved Heru (Comb) Finely carved wood, with complete tines. Carved facial features to one side.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland 25cm length. Y22060

$5,000 - $10,000

140

A 19th Century Hoe (Paddle) With leaf shaped blade and slender shaft terming in a ridged handle

Some damage to the base of the blade. Raised on a custom made stand

Y number pending 133 cm length

$2,000 - $2,000

141

A Small Ornamental Hoe (Paddle) displaying a carved wheku figure with inlaid paua eyes and hands clasped to belly. 47cm length. Y22130

$250 - $400

142

Large Handled Ta Whakairo (Bowl) Lug handles to each end.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland

65cm length. Y22093

$400 - $800

143

A Rare 19th Century Tiheru (Canoe Bailer) With tapering scoop fully carved to the underside with pakati and haehae designs. The handle carved as two parallel bars terminating in a wheku head. Probably made from Kaikawaka (NZ cedar) due to its light weight and buoyancy. Bailers of this type were typically used on smaller waka on coastal and inland waterways. Another similar example from the East Cape dating from 1850 is held in the collection of the British Museum. Illustrated in ‘Taonga Māori in the British Museum’ by Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast

Another example was sold in our last Māori and Oceanic sale. Lot 223 45cm length. Y number pending $7,500 - $12,000

144

Carved Wooden Whakawae (Door Jamb)

Section The early 19th century architectural piece carved with three conjoined ancestral figures with naturalistic bodies and wheku faces mounted on an intricately carved support with side profile wheku heads and takarangi double spirals with pakati detailing. Some losses evident

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland. 78 cm length. Y6714

$5,000 - $8,000

145

Early 19th Century Architectual Board Section Possibly the door to a kumara pit store. Carved with an ancestral figure with a wheku head with protruding tongue with pakati detailing. The figure holds a patu to the abdomen clasped in three fingered hands. Some losses evident.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland. 60cm length. Y2928

$1,500 - $2,500

147

Pre-European Toki Pounamu Inanga variety stone showing evidence of firing. Tapering quadrangular form with scarfing to both lateral edges. Uneven poll and some fritting to the cutting edge.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland. Displaying a Wagner Museum serial number.

148

Ta Whakairo (Mallet)

62cm length. Y22090

$300 - $500

149

Ta Whakairo (Mallet) Heart shaped lower section with a central recess then tapering to the grip shaft. Showing wear. Historically used to peg the supports for eel nets

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland. 60cm length. Y6085

$300 - $500

150

Patu Tuna (Eel Club) Spatulate shaped blade tapering to the grip.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection, Northland. 44cm length. Y09550

$500 - $900

151

A Large Punga (Anchor Stone) Volcanic stone with deeply recessed lashing grooves. 42cm length

$300 - $500

152

Ipu (Wooden Bowl) Flat bottomed elliptical shaped bowl with one end terminating to a point.

Provenance: Wagner Museum collection. Northland. 41cm length. Y22092

$400 - $800

153

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) Basalt with lashing grooves. 7cm length. Y21778

$200 - $300

154

A Mahe (Stone Sinker) volcanic stone with lashing grooves around the circumference. 7cm length. Y21709

$200 - $300

155

Mahe (Stone Sinker) With natural piercing through the centre lashing groove. 7cm length. Y21777

$200 - $400

156

Two Mahe (Stone Sinkers) course volcanic stone with lashings grooves. 12 cm, 9cm length. Y21797, Y21780

$400 - $800

157

A Carved Volcanic Stone Bowl 10cm diameter. Y22122

$300 - $400

158

A Spherical Hammer Stone Volcanic rock. 8cm diameter. Y21782

$200 - $400

17cm length. Y22088

$600 - $800

159

A Good Pre-European Toki (Volcanic Stone) Tapering quadrangular form with tang, hammer dressed surface, cutting edge rounded and slightly uneven. 24cm length. Y21651

$400 - $600

160

A Large Rare Spaded Toki Possibly crafted from serpentine, with hammered dressed lateral edges the rest polished throughout. 17cm length. Y21502

$400 - $800

161

A Rare Pre-European Pounamu Amulet Pendant Kahurangi variety pounamu. With two broken out suspension holes indictive of significant age and with two re-drilled countersunk suspension holes to the upper section. Found in a river inlet in Otago in the 1950s.13 x 6cm. Y 21303

$6,000 - $8,000

162

Carved Pou Whakairo Figure With inlaid paua eyes. Inscribed to reverse ‘Carver Mapere Te Hiakai, Te Wairoa, Rotorua.’ 40cm height $200 - $300

163

A Pounamu Awl 9cm length. Y22119

$250 - $350

164

A Fine 19th Century Kiwi Feather Kete (Kiwi Feather Bag) With woven muka twining. Some damage to the weave at top centre.

Provenance: Private Collection Nelson. Previously in the collection of Ann and Peter Webb.

24cm x 20 cm. Y 9804

$6,000 - $8,000

165

A 19th Wakahuia (Treasure Box) Finely carved of classical ovoid form. Each end with projecting wheku heads with paua shell eyes. The body of the box carved with radiating lines of rauponga with pakati (dog tooth) notching, and takarangi spiral decoration. The lid with conforming rauponga carving and pakati (dog tooth) notching. 48cm length. Y 17027

$25,000 - $35,000

166

A Rare Large And Unusual Pre-European Pounamu Toki (Adze Blade) Inanga with inclusions in the stone, long slender tapering quadrangular shape, well defined lapidary scarf running down the length of each side. Poll broken and repaired.

41cm length. Y21880

$3,500 - $5,000

167

Large Pre-European Serpentinite Toki Thick tapering quadrangular shape with a ridge bisecting the bevel. Hammer dressed surface throughout, lower edge of the bevel polished. Fritting to blade edge. 31cm length. Y7028

$1,500 - $3,000

168

A Large Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Thick quadrangular form with well defined lateral edges, poll uneven hammer dressed and tanged, a clear ridge bisects the bevel, the cutting edge is asymmetric and chipped. 30cm length. Y17730

$800 - $1,200

169

A Large Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Large thick quadrangular form with an even poll and incipient tang, well defined lateral edges and a double sided bevel with small chip the blade.

30cm length. Y22053

$600 - $1,000

170

A Pre-European Toki (Argillite) Traditional quadrangular form, even poll with incipient tang, double sided bevel with some chipping to the blade. 24cm length. Y22052

$400 - $800

171

A 19th Century Pounamu Hei Tiki Type I form carved in Kahurangi variety stone. Widely recessed eyes, three ribs to the torso, rounded stomach. Concealed countersunk suspension hole to the top of head. 9cm length. Y 21511

$3,000 - $5,000

172

Early 20th Century Hei Tiki Inanga variety stone. Type I with large recessed eyes, asymmetric nose and mouth displaying two teeth. Rudimentary hands to thighs. Suspension hole to the top of head. 10cm length. Y 21673

$1,000 - $2,000

173

A Carved Poupou Panel By Norman Clark Carved as a wheku head with inset paua shell eyes.

Signed and dated 1976 to the reverse.

53cm x 21cm

$800 - $1,200

174

A Rare Manatunga Māori Travel Rug Decorated in poutama (stairway to heaven) design in white, green, and tan. Original label affixed; “Manatunga, Made in New Zealand by Roslyn Mills.” Additional cardboard tag and paper sticker attached. As new condition.

190cm x 146cm

$1,000 - $1,500

175

Manatunga Wool Travel Rug Decorated in a tukutuku panel design in black, brown, and yellow. Original Manatunga Mosgiel Woollens Ltd label attached.

184cm x 140cm

$500 - $1,000

176

Te Ariki Wool Travel Rug Decorated in a tukutuku panel design in black, brown, red, orange, and white. Original Onehunga label attached.

136cm x 130cm

$500 - $1,000

JOHN PERKINS COLLECTION LOTS 177–241

177

A Ramu River Mask From The Madang Province Facial features carved in high relief and painted with umber and black pigments, framed with cassowary feathers. Metal hook with fibre binding for suspension.

81cm height

$300 - $500

178

Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade and figural finial to the top of paddle.

195cm length

$800 - $1,000

179

Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade and figural finial to the top of paddle.

172cm length

$800 - $1,000

180

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle.

207cm length

$400 - $800

181

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, concentric bands carved to top of the handle.

190cm length

$400 - $800

182

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle.

184cm length

$400 - $800

183

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle with concentric bands to the top.

206cm length

$400 - $800

184

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle with concentric bands to the top.

196cm length

$400 - $800

185

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade.

170cm length

$400 - $800

186

Five Papua New Guinea Nassa Shell Body Adornments Woven fibre with applied Nassa Shell. Includes three armbands.

$200 - $400

187

Two Cowrie Shell Currency Necklaces From The Madang Province, Papua New Guinea $200 - $300

188

Three Cowrie Shell Currency Necklaces From The Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

$300 - $400

189

A Papua New Guinea Warriors Dog Tooth Necklace

$100 - $200

190

A Papua New Guinea Warriors Dog Tooth Necklace With applied red pigment.

$100 - $200

191

Five Cassowary Bone Spatulas With carved avian heads, one with red pigment. $300 - $500

192

Four Cassowary Bone Spatulas

$300 - $500

193

A Ramu River Kundu Drum From Papua New Guinea Decorated with incised geometric patterns and painted with red and silver pigment. Collected in 1972. Skin missing (likely removed at NZ customs).

56cm height

$100 - $200

194

Two Kundu Ramu River Drums From Papua New Guinea The larger of the two displaying carved crocodile, hornbill, and human figure handles, incised geometric patterns, and red fibre embellishments. The smaller with incised ancestral figure. Both skins missing (likely removed at NZ customs).

83cm, 71cm length

$300 - $500

195

Five Elliptical Ramu River Food Bowls With carved figural handles, various sizes. One with damaged rim.

$200 - $400

196

Four Elliptical Ramu River Food Bowls With carved figural handles, various sizes.

$200 - $400

197

Five Elliptical Ramu River Food Bowls Four with carved figural handles, one with carved avian heads to the underside. Various sizes.

$200 - $300

198

A Large Ramu River Feast Bowl Decorated with carved stylised frigate birds.

70cm length

$200 - $400

199

A Papua New Guinea War Shield From The Pora Pora River, East Sepik Provence Broad wedged shield with a central ancestral figure and clan motifs on either side. Two lateral holes pierced for suspension.

127cm height

$400 - $800

200

A Large Papua New Guinea Water Drum From The Chambri Area, Sepik River Blackened hornbill and crocodile carved in high relief.

92cm height

$300 - $500

201

Five Papua New Guinea Fishing Nets

Various sizes.

$100 - $200

202

A Papua New Guinea Sepik River Yam Mask Woven fibre.

46cm height

$100 - $200

Two Elliptical Ramu River Food Bowls With frigate bird motifs. Showing clear signs of use. 71cm, 68cm length

$100 - $200

204

Three Elliptical Ramu River Food Bowls With carved figural handles. 97cm, 80cm, 71cm length

$150 - $250

205

A Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle. 161cm length

$400 - $800

206

A Papua New Guinea Cooking Pot Raku fired clay pot with dog mask side handles. Sepik river. Clear signs of use. 23cm diameter

$100 - $200

207

Two Papua New Guinea Cooking Pots Raku fired with snake motifs. 18cm, 18cm diameter

$100 - $200

208

A Raku Fired Elliptical Food Bowl From Papua New Guinea With incised decoration and avian handles. Some losses. 26cm at widest point

$200 - $300

209

A Papua New Guinea Ceremonial Spirit Head Vessel Raku fired ovoid vessel tapering to base. East Sepik District. 21cm length

$200 - $400

210

Two Ramu River Masks From Papua New Guinea Carved wood with concave facial planes, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments. 60cm, 54cm height.

$200 - $300

211

Six Papua New Guinea Coconut Shell Spoons Decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe province.

$100 - $200

212

Six Papua New Guinea Coconut Shell Spoons Decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe Province.

$100 - $200

213

Six Papua New Guinea Coconut Shell Spoons Decorated with ancestral spirit faces. Hauon peninsula, Morobe Province.

$100 - $200

214

Three Papua New Guinea Ramu River Masks Carved wood ancestral spirit heads from the Madang district. Collected in 1972. 80cm, 77cm, 67cm height.

$250 - $350

215

Three Papua New Guinea Spirit Head Masks Wood with incised decoration and facial features carved in high relief. Two surmounted with avian head ancestral figures. 70cm, 60cm, 50cm height

$300 - $400

216

A Papua New Guinea Romkun Figure Carved wood standing figure, Madang Province. 80cm height

$150 - $250

217

A Papua New Guinea Ramu River House Board And Mask Carved wood figures from the Madang Province. Some losses. Collected in 1972. 80cm, 75cm height $150 - $250

218

Two Papua New Guinea Ramu River Kandu Drums Wood with incised decoration and handle carved in high relief. Madang Province. Collected in 1972. Skins removed by customs NZ. 54cm, 40cm height $100 - $200

219

Two Papua New Guinea Cooking Pots And A Food Bowl Two raku fired coiled clay pots with figural handles from the Atzera area, Morobe district, with a raku fired elliptical food bowl from the Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes.

25cm, 22cm, 30cm at widest point. $200 - $400

220

12 Assorted Papua New Guinea Carved Wood Food Implements Includes: 6 lime sticks, 3 spoons, 3 pounders. $300 - $500

221

A Good Papua New Guinea Sago Storage Jar From The Aibom Vllage Raku fired coiled clay vessel with flared rim, decorated with zoomorphic relief depictions of mythological spirits painted with black and kaolin pigments. Woven ratan base.

33cm height

$1,000 - $1,500

222

Four Papua New Guinea Ramu River Elliptical Feast Bowls Madang Province. $200 - $300

223

Three Papua New Guinea Ramu River Elliptical Feast Bowls 65cm, 43cm, 30cm

$200 - $300

224

Seven Small Papua New Guinea Ramu River Standing Figures Carved wood mythological spirit figures. Madang Province. $100 - $200

225

Seven Small Papua New Guinea Ramu River Standing Figures Carved wood mythological spirit figures. Madang Province.

$100 - $200

226

Five Papua New Guinea Coconut Shell Spoons With incised spirit head and pierced decoration.

$100 - $200

227

Five Papua New Guinea Adze Blades 25cm - 8cm length

$200 - $300

228

Five Papua New Guinea Billum Bags Coloured fibre, various Sizes. $200 - $300

229

Two Papua New Guinea Azera Cooking Pots Raku fired coiled clay pots from the Morobe Region.

22cm, 19cm diameter

$100 - $200

230

Two Papua New Guinea Azera Cooking Pots Raku fired coiled clay pots with zoomorphic side handles modelled in high relief, from the Morobe region. 22cm, 22cm diameter

$100 - $200

231

A Large Papua New Guinea Ramu River House Board Carved wood depicting an anthropomorphic figure in relief, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments. Collected in 1972. Some losses.

$300 - $600

232

A Papua New Guinea Mask And Figure A carved wood Ramu River flute mask with painted black, red and Kaolin pigments, and a Romkun figure.

39cm, 40cm height

$100 - $200

233

A Papua New Guinea Romkun Post Carved wood with opposing hooks and janus spirit face, Ramu river. Damage to one hook.

173cm height

$300 - $400

234

A Papua New Guinea Ramu River House Board Flat wood board with incised anthropomorphic figure, with painted kaolin and ochre pigments. Multiple piercings for suspension.

99cm height

$200 - $300

235

A Papua New Guinea Ramu River Shield Carved blackened wood spirit face with overlaid clay, dog tooth, and boar tusk embellishments. Bamboo handle to reverse. Some surface losses.

160cm height

$600 - $1,200

236

Two Papua New Guinea Shields Wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension.

101cm, 97cm height

$200 - $300

237

Two Ramu River Paddles From Papua New Guinea Romkun figural finial to the top of paddle shaft. Worn with some losses.

164cm, 166cm length

$400 - $800

238

A Papua New Guinea Ramu River Spirit Head Post Carved wood post with Romkun opposing hook spirit face.

148cm height

$150 - $250

239

Six Ramu River Spears From Papua New Guinea Carved wood spears from the Madang Province.

Over 200cm height

$400 - $800

240

A Papua New Guinea Sepik River House Board Carved wood displaying three surmounting anthropomorphic faces. Carved to commemorate the death of triplets. Suspension holes.

157cm height

$400 - $800

241

A Papua New Guinea Ramu River House Board Carved wood ancestral spirit face carved in high relief, with applied red, ochre, and kaolin pigments. Broken suspension hole.

126cm height

$300 - $500

BARBARA BARCLAY COLLECTION LOTS 242–259

242

A Papua New Guinea Kombio (Feast Bowl) Blackened raku fired clay with mask face side handles in high relief. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes. Collected in 1971.

26cm at widest point

$100 - $200

243

A Papua New Guinea Papi (Food Bowl) Raku fired clay with incised pattern. Ilahop Village, Maprik 15cm diameter

$100 - $200

244

Two Papua New Guinea Hodu (Water Bowl) Raku fired clay spherical shape vessels. Boera Village, Central Province. The larger of the two with a ceramic base and chip to rim. 37cm, 16cm height

$150 - $250

245

A Papua New Guinea Meat Cooking Pots Raku fired clay pot with stylised fish handles in high relief, comes with ceramic base. Zumin Village, Markham Valley, Morobe Province

24cm at widest point

$100 - $200

246

Male And Female Figures, Papua New Guinea Raku fired clay. Dimiri Village, East Sepik District.

20cm height

$100 - $200

247

A Papua New Guinea Uro (Cooking Pot) Raku fired clay with incised decoration. Dimiri Village, East Sepik. Collected in 1971. 21cm diameter

$100 - $200

240

231

235

234

A Ceremonial Food Bowl Raku fired clay decorated with four figures in relief. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes. Collected in 1971.

26cm x 26cm

$100 - $200

249

Small Frog Figure From Papua New Guinea Raku Fired Clay with incised decoration. Dimiri Village.

8cm length

$50 - $100

250

An Ocarina Pig Whistle, Papua New Guinea Raku fired clay with dark and light pigments. Sina Sina People Of Kundiawa. Chip to the mouthpiece.

13cm length

$100 - $200

251

A Mythological Figure From, Papua New Guinea Raku fired sitting figure surmounted by a cassowary bird. Black and Kaolin pigments. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes. Damaged and repaired.

35cm height

$300 - $500

252

A Papua New Guinea Whistle With Stand Raku fired clay with incised ancestral face decoration painted with black, white and red pigments.

10cm height

$150 - $250

253

A Large Uro (Cooking Pot) From Papua New Guinea Raku fired spherical clay pot with incised decoration. The Boera Village. 31cm height

$100 - $200

254 Jorgen Peterson Modern Pot With Base (1970) Maprik Province

20cm height

$150 - $250

255

A Papua New Guinea Meat Cooking Pot Raku fired clay with incised decoration, pierced throughout the ovoid body with ratan handle. Dimiri Village, East Sepik. 40cm height (including handle)

$200 - $400

256

Two Raku Fired Papua New Guinea Cooking Pots Large cooking pot with incised decoration from Tenmile Village, Madang Province, and a small cooking pot from the Amphlett Islands.

Large 30cm diameter, small 22cm at widest point.

$150 - $250

257

A Chalice From Papua New Guinea Raku fired clay with janus faces in high relief, painted with black and kaolin pigments. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes. Some surface losses. 12cm height $100 - $200

258

A Papua New Guinea Roof Gable Figure Raku fired clay avian/anthropomorphic sitting figure surmounted on an ovoid base. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes, East Sepik 40.5cm height

$400 - $600

259

A Papua New Guinea Sago Jar Lid Raku fired clay. Aibom Village, Chambri Lakes. Signs of wear. 28cm diameter

$100 - $200

260

Two Papua New Guinea Obsidian Blade Daggers In these examples, the obsidian blade is hafted into a moulded putty nut Parinarium gum hand grip. From the beginning of the 20th century, the quality of manufacture of Melanesian obsidianbladed spears and daggers decreased as they were replaced by imported European steel edged blades. The fine workmanship of these daggers is indicative of early pre European trade contact production c1900. 30cm, 25cm length

$200 - $300

261

Two Papa New Guinea Raku Fired Cooking Pots

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection. 24cm diameter

$100 - $200

262

A Papua New Guinea Tapa From The Oro Region

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection

125cm x 76cm

$100 - $200

263

Seven Papua New Guinea Ramu River Figures

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection

$200 - $400

264

Papua New Guinea Sepik River Feast Bowl With Cruciform Decoration

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Colllection

$300 - $500

266

Papua New Guinea Large Sepik River

Elliptical Feast Bowl Decorated with frigate bird motifs.

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection

267

Three Papua New Guinea Peka Cooking Pots From The Madang Province

Elongated ovoid shape with conical bases. The base of the Peka pot was buried into the ground and the fire was built around it. 36cm, 31cm, 31cm height

$150 - $250

268

A Papua New Guinea Lower Sepik River Lime Container Carved painted wood, bamboo, woven fibre, and cowrie shell. Top and bottom Stoppers.

69cm height

$200 - $400

269

Four Cassowary Bird Daggers Various sizes, one with inset red beads.

32 cm - 18cm length

$200 - $400

270

Papua New Guinea Cut Shell Currency Bound together with platted fibre on a wooden spike.

34cm length

$100 - $200

271

A Papua New Guinea Cooking Pot With Incised Pigmented Decoration 28cm diameter

$200 - $300

272

A Papua New Guinea Kandu Drum Wood with Pigmented decoration. 98cm height

$200 - $400

273

A Papua New Guinea Ceremonial Paddle And A Carved Suspension Hook The paddle displays a leaf shaped blade held in the mouth of a python with a serpentine handle terminating with the carved head of a clan father in high relief. The hook displays the head of a white ibis at one end, at the other end is the head of a python effigy devouring a clan father, Paddle 187cm, hook 60cm height

$200 - $400

274

A Large Elliptical Blackened Wood Feast Bowl With frigate birds carved in relief. 100cm

$200 - $400

275

A Papua New Guinea Shield Wood, decorated with a carved geometric pattern. Hole pierced for suspension.

106cm height

$200 - $300

77cm length

$200 - $400

Two Papua New Guinea Shields Wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension.

105cm, 65cm height

$200 - $300

277

Two Papua New Guinea Carved Wood Statues Horned female standing figures with incised decoration. Some damage (split wood).

116cm, 115cm height.

$400 - $800

278

Ramu River Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to both side of the blade and figural finial to the top of paddle.

164cm length

$800 - $1,000

279

A Papua New Guinea Warriors Dog Tooth Necklace

115cm length

$100 - $200

280

A Papua New Guinea Sepik River Bowl

With Stand Coiled raku fired clay bowl with incised spirit faces painted with red, ochre, and kaolin pigment. Provenance; One Christian Fund Collection; ex Sotherby’s.

26cm diameter

$300 - $400

281

A Papua New Guinea Sepik River Bowl

With Stand Coiled raku fired clay bowl with incised pattern and applied ochre pigment. Chip to the surface. Provenance; One Christian Fund Collection; ex Sotherby’s.

25cm diameter

$250 - $350

282

A Papua New Guinea Suspension Hook Figure Carved blackened wood, red pigment, cowrie shell, raffia, and cassowary feather adornment.

115cm height

$200 - $400

283

A Buka Island Paddle From Papua New Guinea Displaying stylized ancestor figures painted with dark pigment to one side of the blade, carving to lower end of the handle.

177cm length

$400 - $800

284

Papua New Guinea Mask Decorated with cassowary feathers, boar tusks and cowrie shells.

Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs Collection.

55cm height

$200 - $400

285

Papua New Guinea Middle Sepik River Latmul Mei Mask 20th century Mei mask. Wood, pigments, cowry shells, boar tusk, hair and clay.

Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs Collection

76cm height

$300 - $500

286

A Papua New Guinea Woven Sepik River Mask Decorated with cowrie shells, boar tuck, and cassowary feather.

45cm height

$200 - $300

287

A Papua New Guinea Aibom Village Sago Storage Jar Raku fired coiled clay vessel with flared rim and decorated with anthropomorphic face in relief, painted with black, red and kaolin pigments. With raffia stand. 35cm height

$500 - $1,000

288

A Papua New Guinea Middle Sepik River Mask Painted carved wood. Original label affixed to reverse: ‘David Jones, Gable Mask, Palembai.

Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs Collection

67cm height

$300 - $500

289

A Large And Impressive Spirit Mask From Papua New Guinea Painted wood decorated with bird totems carved in high relief and cut shells eyes. 122cm height

$1,200 - $1,500

290

A Good Papua New Guinea Ramu River Garamut Slit Drum Rectangular form with projecting figures to each end with long hooked noses and tiered headdresses. The body of the drum with fine intricate curvilinear designs. Complete with drumstick. Carved from a felled tree the slit drum, or garamut, is one of the most important instruments in the Sepik River region. These drums are typically kept in the men’s ritual house for ceremonies such as male initiations. The finials of the garamut are ornamented with figures characteristic of the Sepik region with their long, hooked noses and tiered headdresses. These figures represent important ancestors and demonstrate clan affiliation. The people of the Sepik area understand the drum’s sound as its “voice.” This voice can carry long distances to announce meetings, call individuals, issue warnings, and even contact neighboring villages. Communication occurs through a complex series of rhythms and tones beat out with a wooden stick by an initiated man. More than just an instrument, this drum is central to the lives the entire community in the Ramu river region.

$1,500 - $3,000

291

Four Papua New Guinea Cooking Pot Raku fired coiled clay pots. $100 - $200

292

Two Papua New Guinea Shields Wood with carved geometric patterns. Pierced for suspension. 107cm, 70cm height

$200 - $300

293

A Tongan Ceremonial Priest’s Staff With cylindrical handle and tapering rectangular head carved with a manulua design 74cm length

$800 - $1,200

294

A Trobriand Islands Elliptical Feast Bowl

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection $200 - $400

295

Trobriand Island Elliptical Wooden Feast Bowl

Provenance: Nigel Hillind Collection $200 - $400

296

A Sperm Whale Tooth 12cm length

$300 - $400

297

Two Tokelau Tackle Boxes (Taluma) The lidded boxes of ovoid shape with pierced lugs to the shoulder, attached sennit binding. 22cm, 10cm height $200 - $400

298

An Aboriginal Woomara (Spear Thrower) 59cm length

$200 - $400

299

An Aboriginal Woomara (Spear Thrower) 77cm length

$300 - $500

300

An Aboriginal Woomara (Spear Thrower) A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device. It serves as an extension of the human arm enabling a spear to travel at a greater speed and force. $200 - $400

301

Three Aboriginal Boomerangs Carved wood.

63cm, 50cm, 30cm length

$300 - $500

Two Ceremonial Spears From Irian Jaya Carved wood spears with incised decoration and applied kaolin pigment. Cockatoo feather and shell embellishments. Cokatoo Guenum Village.

$200 - $400

303

A Ceremonial Paddle And Spade From Irian Jaya Carved wood paddle with incised decoration to the blade, and wood spade with surmounting human figure handle.

Over 200cm height

$300 - $600

304

A 19th Century Fijian Ceremonial Dance Club (Kiakavo). Kiakavo were typically a dance club used in ceremonial circumstances. They were rarely used for fighting due to their lack of a cutting edge. The area under the head is rounder and not sharp like the Gata or Sali club.

96cm height

$300 - $500

305

A Sperm Whale Tooth

14cm length

$200 - $400

306

A Fijian Lobbed Vunikau (Long Roostock War Club) A seven lobbed war club, dark rich patina, with notched carving to the grip.

107cm length

$800 - $1,200

307

A Pitcairn Island Carved Wood Flying Fish Mounted on a stand. Damaged and repaired left wing

30cm length

$100 - $200

308

A Dayak Ceremonial Bowl With Crocodile Head Carved wood with dark patina.

70cm length

$200 - $300

309

A 19th Century Fijian Ceremonial Dance Club (Kiakavo)

98cm height

$200 - $400

310

An Important Early 19th Century Fijian Yagona Dish From Western Vitlevu Elongated elliptical shape with a pierced tapering handle. Carved from sacred vesi wood which was typically used for religious vessels. This vessel, historically belonged to the cannibal high chief ratu Vuniani Vuki who became Rekotui Vuniani Vuki after colonisation – he died in 1918. Mr Edmund Gibson Woolcott, a cane planter at Naikubu-kubu Ba secured the dish in 1912 and it was then passed on by descent until it was sold at Cordys auctions in Auckland

56cm length

Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs collection

$1,000 - $2,000

311

Fijian Wasekaseka (Sperm Whale Tooth Necklace) Restrung with beads and velvet ribbon.

67cm length

Provenance: Dame Jenny Gibbs Collection.

$1,000 - $2,000

312

A Vanuatu War Club Carved polished hardwood tapering spatulate shape.

112cm height

$400 - $800

313

A Good Fijian Tabua (Ceremonial Marine Ivory Tooth) With attached woven fibre.

19cm length

$500 - $1,000

314

A Fijian Tabua (Ceremonial Marine Ivory Tooth) with suspension holes.

14cm length

$300 - $500

315

A Fijian Tabua (Ceremonial Marine Ivory Tooth) With suspension holes.

13cm length

$300 - $500

316

A Large Sperm Whale Tooth

$400 - $600

317

A Sperm Whale Tooth

16cm length $300 - $500

318

A Sperm Whale Tooth

15cm length $300 - $500

319

A Sperm Whale Tooth dark striated patina. 14cm length

$300 - $500

320

A Large Pacific Hardwood Kava Bowl With four legs.

68cm diameter

$400 - $800

321

Five Powelliphanta Snail Shells And A Nugget Of Kauri Gum

$200 - $300

322

Huia Head Section With Beak Intact

12cn length

$2,000 - $3,000

322a

A Large And Impressive Moa Leg Bone

Found at Pyramid Valley, North Canterbury. Pyramid Valley in the Hurunui District of New Zealand is located near Waikari in the North Canterbury region 80 km north-west of Christchurch. It is well known for its prominent limestone rock formations. On the foot of the valley is a swamp which became notable in 1939 as New Zealand’s largest paleontological site for moa fossils. The swamp was formed around 18,000 BC and was drained some 2,000 years ago. It provided a lush vegetation which attracted five different moa species. In 1938 the landowners Joseph and Rob Hodgen found three large bones of Dinornis giganteus in the swamp. They opened this area for excavations and in the early 1940s fossil hunters like Roger Duff, Jim Eyles, and many others began their research at this site. The remains of long extinct birds were unearthed, including more than 183 complete moa skeletons and tens of thousands of fossil bone fragments from about 46 species of birds.

Nickle plated plaque affixed and inscribed with ‘A moa leg bone, found at pyramid valley. N. Canterbury’ 47cm length

$3,000 - $4,000

323

Large Obsidian Rock Natural rock surface with polished areas.

23cm length, 14cm height.

$300 - $500

AFRICAN ART

324

An African Makonde Tree Of Life

Sculpture Intricately carved with interlocking human figures representing unity, interdependence and continuity

56 cm height

$400 - $800

325

Chokwe Pwo Mask From Angola Carved wood and raffia with cosmogram carved to forehead, mounted on a stand. c1940s.

16cm height

$1,000 - $1,500

326

Poto Tribal Knife, Central Africa Some surface rust to the blade.

57cm length

$100 - $200

327

A Central Kenya Kikuyu Dance Shield Oval shape, white and red pigment applied to the surface with good overall patina.

64cm x 36cm

$150 - $250

328

Large Decorative Wooden Horn From Kenya

138cm height

$250 - $350

329

Large And Impressive Crocodile Game Board From The Dan Tribe, Ghana Showing signs of use.

150cm length

$300 - $500

330

Impressive Hardwood Grain Pounder, Democratic Republic Of Congo Surmounted by a female fertility figure, rich dark surface patina. Luba Tribe.

115 cm length

$200 - $400

331

A Hardwood Staff From The Kwere People Of Tanzania Carved with a female figure seated on the shoulders of a male figure.

140cm length

$200 - $400

332

A Songye Warrior Figure, Democratic Republic Of Congo. A carved standing figure with rich dark patina holding a sword and shield, smaller figure carved to the belly. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

78cm height

$500 - $800

333

A Songye Tribe Double Sided Male/ Female Figure, Democratic Republic Of Congo A carved wood standing figure with a male and female on opposing sides, studded metal embellishments to the body with woven raffia skirt, the faces displaying the linear incisions and rubbed kaolin pigment of a kifwebe mask. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

64cm height

$500 - $800

334

A Songye Tribe Figure With Metal Studs And Summit Horn Angular facial features reminiscent of a Kifwebe Mask, hands resting on a protruding belly with woven fibre skirt. Democratic Republic Of Congo. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 85cm height

$500 - $800

335

Makonde Double Headed “Lipiko” Helmet Mask From Southern Tanzania and Northeast Mozambique. 30cm height

$200 - $400

336

A Dan Mask with Plated Hair, Ivory Coast Dark patina with metal eye rings. 23cm height

$200 - $300

337

African Maternity Statue Large heavy carved wood maternity figure with plated fibre hair, implanted teeth and metal chain apron. 100cm height $500 - $800

338

Toposa Shield, South Sudan Hide with bamboo and leather handle and painted decoration. Traded in South Sudan 1995. 35cm height

$100 - $200

339

Toposa Shield, South Sudan Hide with bamboo and leather handle, fur embellishment. Traded in South Sudan 1995.

60cm height

$100 - $200

340

A Dinka/Shulluk Hard Wood Head Rest, South Sudan Dark patina with copper nails. Modelled on a dhow (sailing vessel) from the White Nile. Purchased in South Sudan 1996. 23cm height

$100 - $200

341

Lidded Woven Milk Container, Ethiopia/ Kenya

46cm height

$40 - $80

342

A Pair Of African Carved Wood Male And Female Figures With rope hair and red pigment highlights. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

122cm, 121cm height

$400 - $600

343

A Pair Of Carved Wood African Figures Clothed in wrapped fabric with kaolin. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 77cm, 73cm height.

$300 - $500

344

A Songye Janus Head Divination

Implement Hardwood with rich dark patina. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

26cm height

$100 - $200

345

Three Hemba Monkey Masks, Namibia

Wide rictus with prominent forehead and long hooded eyes, vertical nose carved in high relief. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

20cm, 12cm, 9cm height

$200 - $300

346

Two Embossed Hide Parrying Shields, Somalia Handles to reverse. Collected in Mogadishu 1996

30cm, 28cm diameter

$150 - $300

347

Mokonde Dancing Staff, Mozambique Carved wood staff with male head, rich brown/red patina. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 56cm height

$100 - $200

348

South Sudan Quiver With Arrows Wood with leather, arrows bamboo with barbed iron tips. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 85cm height

$80 - $140

349

Zaroma Tribe Doll Figure With Beads, Tanzania Carved hardwood with rich dark patina and adorned with beads and human hair coiffure. Mounted on a three footed stand. Collected on Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 62cm height

$400 - $600

350

Large African Helmet Mask With Surmounting Figure Carved wood with bead embellishment, metal nose ring, and carved wood summit horn.

69cm height

$500 - $800

351

Angola/Zaire Chokwe Ceremonial Handheld Chalice Carved wood ceremonial vessel. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 70cm height

$100 - $200

352

A Mijikendo Kenya Funerary Post, Kenya Carved wood with painted red and kaolin pigment. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 125cm height

$300 - $500

353

A Dinka Shield, South Sudan Steel body with wood handle.

122cm height

$300 - $500

354

African Topoke Shield, Democratic Republic of the Congo Wicker and wood. Damage to spine and one corner.

110cm length

$200 - $300

355

A Ngala Shield, Zaire Wood and Wicker. Middle Lualaba river area.

145cm length

$300 - $400

356

A Dinka Tribe Shield, South Sudan Buffalo hide and wood. Traded in Rumbek, South Sudan 1995. 120cm length

$300 - $500

357

A Nyamwezi/Kerebe Standing Female

Figure, Tanzania Carved wood figure. Some splitting to head. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

71cm height

$300 - $400

358

Staff With Leather Shield, South Sudan

Traded in South Sudan 1995.

137cm height

$250 - $350

359

Gabon Reliquary Figure Mounted On A Stand Wood with copper plate and wire.

40cm height

$300 - $500

360

African Camel Bell, Somalia Well modelled with natural woodgrain and attached fibre binding. Purchased in Mogadishu 1996.

15cm height

$120 - $200

361

Dinka Tribe Walking Stick/Staff, South Sudan Carved ebony female figure with brass fittings to a tapering shaft terminating in a gun casing tip. Traded in South Súdan 1995. 100cm height

$300 - $400

362

Turkana Tribe Walking Stick/Staff, Kenya. Wood and metal. 145cm height

$100 - $200

363

Two Turkana Tribe Club/Throwing Sticks, Kenya Carved wood. Traded in Lokichokio, Kenya 1995.

124cm, 110cm height

$200 - $300

364

Two Maasi Spears, Kenya With metal points. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

275cm, 250cm height

$150 - $250

365

Two Maasi Spears, Kenya With metal points. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

215cm, 191cm height

$150 - $250

366

Two Sickle Shaped African Knives A Ngombe knife, North Zaire, and a Zande tribe knife, Democratic Republic Of Congo. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the late 2000s. 75cm, 70cm length

$200 - $300

367

Mangbetu Tribe Ceremonial Knife, Congo Steel knife with elaborate blade with bird and smaller blades in the shape of a tree. Carved wood handle. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 51cm length $100 - $200

368

Two Mangbetu Tribe Knives, Congo Steel with a wood handle and a bone handle. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s.

42cm, 35cm length

$200 - $300

369

An African Dagger Shaped Knife, Congo Steel blade with carved wood handle displaying opposing male and female faces. Surface rust and heavy pitting. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 56cm length

$200 - $300

370

Two African Fly Whisks Cow tail with carved anthropomorphic wood handles, Mangbetu, and Songye with janus head handle. 64cm, 44cm length

$200 - $400

371

Two African Knives, Congo Steel with copper and wood handles, Kuba Tribe (Surface rust), Saka tribe. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 63cm, 53cm length

$200 - $300

372

Saka Tribe Knife, Congo Steel with a wood handle and original wooden scabbard. Collected in Nairobi, Kenya in the early 2000s. 58cm length (knife)

$100 - $200

373

Six African Spears All with metal blades 188cm - 105cm

$200 - $400

374

A Central African Double Sided Chieftans Scabbard Wood and crocodile leather with two horn handled knives with curved blades. 35cm height

$200 - $400

375

An African Maasai Tribe Seme Knife And A Chieftan’s Axe Wood, leather, iron and steel.

53cm, 33cm length

$200 - $400

376

An African Dan Mask From Ghana Carved wood, decorated with cowrie shells, horsehair, and bells. Conical shape to the back of the head made from woven fabric. Mounted on a stand.

28cm height

$400 - $800

377

An African Horn Container With leather lid and handle. 30cm length

$100 - $200

378

A Dan Mask From Liberia With woven fabric and metallic decoration. 28cm height

$200 - $400

379

A Bamenda Cow Bush Mask From Cameroon

56cm height

$250 - $400

380

African Fang Gabon Mask With Stand Carved ebonised wood and kaolin. 47cm height

$1,000 - $2,000

381

A Kwele Mask From Central Africa Carved wood with black and white pigment. 52cm height

$300 - $500

382

Poto Tribal Knife, Central Africa Some surface rust to the blade.

58cm length

$100 - $200

DAY TWO NEW COLLECTORS OCEANIC & AFRICAN ARTS TIMED AUCTION

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LOTS 900 - 920 FROM THE COLLECTION OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL RAYNAR-SMITH. COLLECTED IN SHANGHAI IN THE 1930S

900

Two Late Qing Dynasty Porcelain Bowls

Each of square form, one painted with cranes in flight amongst scrolling clouds. The other painted with floral decoration. Each with turquoise glazed interior.

18cm and 17cm width

$200 - $400

901

Two Late Qing Dynasty Porcelain Bowls

One of hexagonal shaped, painted with a general and attendant soldiers. The other of lobed form painted with bats amidst scrolling clouds on a yellow ground. Each with turquoise glazed interior

19 cm and 21cm diameter

$200 - $400

902

A Late Qing Dynasty Porcelain Bowl

Elliptical shape, painted in polychrome enamels with scholars seated at a table drinking tea and other figures in various pursuits. The bowl interior painted with scattered flowers

27 cm width

$200 - $400

903

Chinese Jun Glazed Bowl Deep circular form. Raised on a later associated hardwood stand

17cm diameter

$200 - $400

904

A Late Ching Dynasty Lidded Vase Polychrome painted with an exotic bird beneath a flowering tree with turned wooden lid raised on a pieced carved wooden stand

10cm height

$100 - $200

905

A Chinese Silk Robe Embroidered in gold thread with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl. Sold together with another robe embroidered with dragons chasing flaming pearls

$300 - $500

906

A Pair Of Late 19th Century Finely Embroidered Silk Panels Each decorated with exotic birds in flight, deer, bats and profuse floral decoration. Damage to the fringe of each

100 x 70cm

$300 - $500

907

A Pair Of Chinese Republic Period Porcelain Vases Each of ovoid shape with slender neck with stylized dragon form handles. Polychrome painted with Confucian scholars and attendants in garden settings and with a lappet scrolling floral design on a red ground. Da Qing Duoguang marks to the base. Raised on circular stepped wooden stands

40cm height

$1,000 - $2,000

908

A Pair Of Early 20th Century Red Lacquer Chinese Stools Each with inset embroidered cushions, the cushions showing wear

36 cm length

$300 - $500

909

A Nest Of Four Chinese Rosewood Tables Graduated size, each with pierced frieze carved with leaves and berries raised on bamboo form legs

$300 - $600

910

Chinese Republic Period Celadon Glazed Vase Ovoid with a slender neck with scroll form handles

42 cm height

$100 - $200

911

Three Chinese Porcelain Ducks Two with celadon glaze and one with white glaze. One repaired

$50 - $100

912

Four Chinese Copper And Brass Dishes Engraved with various designs including shou longevity emblems, flying bats and dragons

$100 - $200

913

A Pair of Republic Period Decorative Chinese Brass Wall Plagues Each of quatrefoil shape with dragon heads in relief. Profusely engraved with sages, dragons and auspicious Buddhist emblems

46 x 43cm

$200 - $400

914

A Pair of Decorative Chinese Brass Wall Mounted Ceremonial Swords The hilts extensively engraved and with dragon heads to the upper section

63cm length

$100 - $200

915

A Group Of Assorted Chinese Items Two ginger jars, one converted to a lamp base, the other repaired, two miniature bottle vases, a miniature lacquer writing box, a resin Hotei figure and two small dishes and six porcelain spoons

$100 - $200

916

A Group Of Assorted Chinese Ceramics Including four dishes of graduated size and ten assorted bowls

Faults evident to some pieces

$150 - $300

917

A Republic Period Porcelain Part Dinner Service Painted in polychrome enamels with profuse floral decoration on a yellow ground 52 pieces in total

$200 - $400

918

A Selection of Assorted Chinese Silk Fabric And Other Fabrics Three rolls of silk, two large silk panels, printed Japanese fabric and assorted other fabrics

$300 - $600

919

A Chinese Hardwood Tray And Brass Lion Dog Seal Sold together with an ivory card case (a/f)

$50 - $100

920

A Chinese Camphorwood Chest 90cm width

$100 - $200

GEOFFREY KEY COLLECTION

LOTS 921 - 952

921

Tibetan 19th Century Silver Butter Lamp Offering Bowl Raised on a chased and engraved stand. The interior hammer finished. The exterior finely engraved with lotus flowers emblematic of purity and spiritual awakening

$350 - $500

923

Tibetan Silver And Copper Gau (Amulet box) The silver with fine repousse work depicting the eight auspicious symbols. Complete with original cloth covering $300 - $500

924

A 19th Century Tibetan Silver And Copper Gau (Amulet box) The central window with a tsa tsa model of the Buddha Amitabha framed by fine silver repousse work depicting the eight auspicious emblems. Complete with original red brocade cloth cover 12cm x 11cm

$500 - $1,000

A Collection of Fine Tibetan Buddhist Ritual Items from the Artist Geoffrey Key

The Tibetan and Mongolian Vajrayana Buddhist ritual items in this catalogue (lots 921-952) were collected by the artist Geoffrey Key. Geoffrey Key is an important British sculptor and painter and has had a career that spans five decades. His contemporary figurative work is held in numerous public collections including collections in Asia. Key’s interest in Asian art and culture had a profound effect on his artistic practice.

In the early 1990s Geoffrey Key visited Hong Kong to exhibit his work in a gallery at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. This first visit to Asia was to prove a catalyst for a change in his use of colour, moving from muted tones to a more full and vibrant palate. It is this work for which he is now best known. It is most likely that his interest in collecting Vajrayana Buddhist art began during this first visit to Asia.

The pieces in this collection were purchased in Asia and in England, notably from the auction house Spink & Son. The collection includes rare examples of Gau (amulet boxes), Vajra, Vajra Katari (ritual chopping knives) and Phurba (ritual daggers) from Tibet and Mongolia. These pieces are associated with the practice of Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism.

Vajrayana Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in India in the 6th century and then took root in Tibet in the 7th and 8th centuries and then spread into Mongolia and across the Himalayan region. It incorporates elements of the indigenous Tibetan religion Yungdrug Bon into is system of practices.

Although Vajrayana Buddhism shares many elements of its practice with the schools of Mahayana Buddhism it also takes the view that by adopting the correct practices that it is possible to ‘awaken’ or become ‘enlightened’ in a single lifetime. Here it uses the exemplars of early practice, the mahassiddhas and cave meditators Milarepa, Tilopa and Padmasambhava.

Vajrayana Buddhism, unlike other forms of Buddhism, makes no distinction between samsara and nirvana as means to achieve enlightenment. Passions and aversions alike are embraced as means to awakening. Vajrayana Buddhism upholds the Mahayana bodhisattva ideal, however its pantheon of celestial beings is more extensive, including a wealth of fierce protector deities and dakinis (female deities). Central to the practices is a relationship with a teacher or guru – usually a Tibetan Lama who guides the student. The teacher initiates the student into the esoteric practices in a graduated way. Ritual is a crucial element of this, and it includes repetition of mantras (sacred syllables and verses), visualization of mandalas (sacred diagrams), sacred hand gestures (mudras), prostrations and the use of sacred objects such as phurba, vajra katari and dorje.

Tantric practices are largely kept secret, to preserve the sanctity of the teachings and protect practitioners from energies they have not yet been trained to handle and which are deemed to be dangerous for the uninitiated. They are passed on from teacher to student when the teacher deems that the student is ready and has completed the correct preliminary practices (ngondro).

The pieces in this collection – the gau, dorje, phurba and vajra-katari are all items that are used in these esoteric tantric Buddhist practices. They date from the 18th to the early 20th century. Of note in this fine collection are the phurba or ritual daggers. Rituals using the phurba are attested to in Indian Buddhist texts which date from A. D 600-900. These were first studied by maters of Vajrayana Buddhism in India – most notably the mahassiddha Padmasambhava.

When Buddhist tantric practice spread to Tibet and the Himalayan region these phurba rituals were part of the extensive body of practices that the Tibetan and Mongolian people inherited. Within these practices the phurba has many different uses including assisting in protection from harmful forces, removing obstacles, assistance in speed or trance walking, use in sacred dances, consecration of sacred spaces and for spiritually ‘cleaning’ buildings or land.

The blade of the phurba typically issues from the jaws of a sacred makara, a mythical water or sea monster. The makara is an ancient Indian symbol of power, and it is utilised in a large variety of tantric ‘weapons’ and is emblematic of firm resolve or unshakeability. The makara is also a symbol for the overcoming or cutting through of the three root poisons of ignorance, attachment and aversion central to all forms of Buddhist practice.

The phurba in this offering that were historically collected by Geoffrey Key range from early plain metal examples to more fine and elaborate examples that incorporate bone, turquoise and coral inlay that originate from both Tibet and Mongolia. In addition to the makara many also incorporate the iconographical images of fierce protector deities and other mythical animals which are a central part of Vajrayana Buddhist practice. They have important ritualistic uses in tantric Buddhist practice as do the many other items in this collection. They are also fine examples of Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist decorative art that date from the 18th to the early 20th century.

James Parkinson

925

Tibetan 19th Century Silver And Copper Gau (Amulet Box) Circular shape enclosing a rare carved rock crystal figure of Shakyamuni Buddha. The exterior decorated in fine repoussé depicting the eight auspicious emblems.

11cm Diameter

$1,000 - $2,000

926

A Tibetan 18th Century Bronze Double Vajra

15 x 15cm

$600 - $1,200

927

A Tibetan Copper And Brass Relic Box Inset with small turquoise beads. The interior with a bone relic, fragments of a text and brocade and small beads.

13cm diameter

$300 - $600

928

A Large And Impressive Tibetan 18th Century Dorje Cast in brass with mask mounts to the center section

20cm Length

$500 - $1,000

929

A Tibetan 18th Century Brass Double Vajra

17 x 17cm

$350 - $500

930

A Tibetan 18th Century Brass And Metal Phurba (Ritual Dagger) The triangulated blade issues from the mouth of a mythical makara, the handle cast as a dorje surmounted by deity and Garuda masks with a horse head final in high relief emblematic of the wrathful protector deity Hayagriva

30cm length

$600 - $1,200

931

A Tibetan 18th Century Brass And Metal Phurba (Ritual Dagger) The triangulated blade issues from the mouth of a mythical makara. Some surface damage evident

31cm Length

$200 - $400

932

A Tibetan 18th Century Silver And Metal Phurba (Ritual Dagger) The large tapering triangulated blade issues from the mouth of a mythical makara. The makara surmounted by a dragon cast in high relief beneath three mask deity mounts and a horse head emblematic of the deity Hayagriva. A similar example illustrated in Tibetan Religious Art by Antoinette K Gordon

29cm Length

$500 - $1,000

933

A Mongolian 19th Century Silver Dorje Inlaid with turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli

9cm length

$500 - $1,000

934

Two Tibetan Silver Gau (Amulet Boxes) Each inlaid with turquoise, each exhibiting losses.

$200 - $400

935

A Rare 19th Tibetan Buddhist Lama’s Pandita Hat From the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Mounted on its original painted polychrome stand

19 x 40cm

$4,000 - $8,000

936

Tibetan Bass And Copper Phurba With integral dorje and chopping knife, the final with three mask mounts surmounted by a horse head

30cm length

$100 - $200

937

Tibetan Silver Brass and Metal Phurba With integral chopping knife, the finial cast in the form of a dorje

22cm length

$200 - $400

938

Tibetan 17/18th Century Brass Dorje

12cm length

$200 - $400

939

Tibetan 17/18th Century Brass Dorje

12cm length

$200 - $400

940

Tibetan 19th Century Brass Dorje

12cm length

$150 - $300

941

Tibetan 19th Century Brass Wish

Granting Altar Offering Statue Label to the underside inscribed ‘Yizhin Norbu, ‘The wish granting jewel, mother of all gems’

13 x 11cm

$400 - $800

942

Three Tibetan Brass and Metal Phurba 19th/early 20th century

$300 - $500

943

Tibetan 19th Century Gau (Amulet Box) Engraved with the Kalachakra mantra Together with two Tibetan Tingsha (cymbals) 10 x 10cm

$200 - $400

944

A Fine Tibetan Or Mongolian 19th Century Silver And Metal Phurba (Ritual Dagger) The hilt decorated with four Vajrakila wrathful bone masks each embellished with turquoise. The handle inlaid with turquoise, coral and a lapis lazuli. The tapering triangulated iron blade issues from the mouth of a mythical makara further inlaid in turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli.

25 cm length

$1,000 - $2,000

945

Tibetan Gau, Conch Shell, Dorje And two Gilt Metal Plaques And Two Cymbals One plaque with a deity cast in low relief, the other probably from a Chinese cabinet decorated with a dragon

$300 - $500

946

A Chinese Cloisonné Lion Dog Enamel losses to the surface ( A/F)

17cm length

$200 - $400

947

19th Century Indian Killotaya (Lime container) and Oil Lamp

$200 - $400

948

A Rare 19th Century Tibetan Vajra-Katari ( Ritual Chopping Knife) Cast in silver with the head of a Makara and the head of a Peacock, the curved flaring metal blade issuing from the mouth section, engraved with Tibetan script. The Makara head surmounted by a dorje finial inset with turquoise and coral

22cm Length

$1,000 - $1,800

949

Indian 19th Century Miniature Brass Figure Of Crawling Baby Krishna 5cm length

$400 - $800

950

Tibetan 18th century bronze Yamantaka figure The wrathful protector deity depicted standing with hands in the Karana mudra, the mudra that wards off evil. Raised on a perspex stand

7 x 7cm

$400 - $800

951

A Rare Pair Of 19th Century Tibetan Buddhist Bronzed Lion Dogs Each raised on a rectangular plinth with traces of polychrome paint to the surface

Tibetan Vajra emblem engraved to the underside of each

13cm Width. 20cm height

$1,000 - $2,000

952

A Rare Tibetan Chung Dzi Bead Orange agate with black and white equatorial stripes. These beads are prized in the Himalayan regions and are worn as protective amulets. Some examples are ground into a powder to be used in traditional Tibetan medicine. Beads subject to this process have small “dig marks” where a portion of the bead has been scraped or ground away to be included in the medicine. This example shows dig marks to each end.

A good example but of uncertain age

6cm length

$400 - $800

953

Tibetan Bronze Figure Of Shakyamuni Buddha Seated in mediation with a alms bowl in the Bhumisparsha mudra on a double lotus throne

29 x 20cm

$300 - $600

954

A 19th Century Tibetan Coffer Leather covered; the front panel embossed with a dragon

78cm width, 39cm height

$400 - $800

955

A Rare Early 19th Century Tongam Offering Cabinet Panel The Centre section hand painted with an offering shrine with a kapala (skull cup) containing offerings to the wrathful protector deities beneath a row of skull cups flanked by birds and dancing skeletons. The upper section depicting the sky burial charnel grounds with carrion birds. The lower section with snow lions, horses and yak.

This rare panel was probably part of a Tongam offering cabinet. These cabinets were kept in the Gongkhag in Tibetan monasteries and were used to store offerings to the wrathful protector deities Provenance: Private collection Christchurch. Purchased from Paul Rutten Asiatic and Tribal Art, Amsterdam in 1995

87 x 70 cm

$3,000 - $5,000

955a

A Decorative Tibetan Sideboard Painted with Kapala skull offering cups, double dorje and floral decoration.

$1,500 - $2,500

956

Tibetan Thangka Painted With The Buddha Of Compassion Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara) Depicted in the 1000 arm incarnation, 20th century

67 x 53cm

$350 - $500

957

Tibetan Thangka Painted With Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava) The central figure framed by his eight manifestationsPadmasambhava, Urgyen Dorje Chang, Pema Gyalpo, Lodan Choksey, Nyima Odzer, Guru Senge Dradok, Dorje Drolo, Guru Senge Dradok. 20th century.

69 x 56cm

$400 - $600

958

Large Tibetan Thangka hand painted with Shakyamuni Buddha Seated with alms bowl in the Bhumisparsha mudra flanked by attendants

120 x 94 cm

$600 - $800

959

A 19th Century Northern Chinese Stone Stupa Carved in three sections. The lower section carved with Buddha figures, minor loss to the outer rim of the central section 28 cm high

$1,000 - $1,500

960

A Decorative 19th Century Carved Wood Laotian Buddha Seated with hands in the Bhumisparsha ( earth touching) mudra. One arm broken and missing. Raised on a wooden stand.

43cm height

$350 - $500

961

A Tibetan Prayer book The outside board engraved with a Buddha flanked by dragons. With ten pages with Tibetan script and painted with various buddhas and deities

$100 - $200

962

A Tibetan Bronze Figure Of Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara) The Buddha of compassion is depicted in typical form seated with four arms.

25cm height

$300 - $600

963

A Large and Impressive Burmese 19th Century Mandalay Style Buddhist Throne Shrine Made in two sections. The lower section platform base gilded and lacquered and carved with scrolling tendrils. The upper section with a central niche made to accommodate a Buddha framed by gilded carved scrolling tendrils flanked by relief carved foliate scrolls. The pagoda form top embellished with gilded foliate decoration in high relief. Some minor losses evident

98 x 80 cm

$1,500 - $2,500

964

A 19th Century Burmese Buddhist Stand Stepped rectangular shape, gilded and lacquered. The frieze set with clear and coloured glass rondels. Raised of four carved gilded Lion supports. Some small losses.

55 cm Width

$400 - $800

965

A Burmese Black Lacquered Offering

Vessel Raised on a stepped circular base. The lid carved in the form of a stupa

60cm height

$350 - $500

966

A Burmese Black Lacquered Offering

Vessel Raised on a stepped circular base. The lid carved in the form of a stupa

60cm height

$350 - $500

967

Two Bone and Silver Tibetan ‘Kangling’ Buddhist trumpets Each with femur bone and embossed and engraved decorative silver cover. The Kangling is typically used during chod offering rituals

31 and 25cm length

$200 - $400

968

A Tibetan Tea Bowl Turned wood embellished in silver and copper with the eight auspicious Buddhist emblems. Sold together with two plated silver koro with pierced lids

$100 - $200

969

A Good Quality Tibetan Bell and Dorje Cast in copper and brass. Together with a floral brocade case

$200 - $400

970

A Nepalese Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) Figure Cast in copper. Seated in the Lalitasana (Royal ease) posture holding a vajra and a Kapala offering cup. The face gilded and hand painted.

22cm height

$250 - $500

971

A Tibetan Brass And Copper Dish

Engraved and embossed with Tibetan script and auspicious Vajrayana Buddhist emblems

26 cm diameter

$50 - $100

972

A 19th Century Tibetan Thangka

Depicting Grahamatrika The three faced deity holding parasols, a vajra and other tantric implements. The upper section with Lama Tsongkhapa flanked by attendant bodhisattvas above a figure of Avalokitesvara and Amitabha. The lower section painted with Dzambhala, the wealth deity flanked by White Tara and Green Tara Grahamatrika, Mahavidya (Tibetan: za yum chen mo): a female deity that is related to the sun, moon, planets and constellations. She is sometimes referred to as the Queen of the Planets or Mother of the Planets. She is a meditational deity and her special function or activity is to remove obstacles that are caused by poorly aligned astronomical events

51 x 31cm

$400 - $800

973

A Chinese Ching Dynasty Scholars

Painting Table The frieze with interlacing rings. Raised on square section legs terminating in stepped feet. Some minor losses. 187cm length, 71cm width, 87cm height

$2,000 - $4,000

974

A Large Qing Dynasty Huanghuali Wood Scroll Pot Cylindrical form with thick sides. the amber brown wood with subtle and attractive streaked grain 23cm diameter, 24cm height

$1,000 - $2,000

975

A Large Rare Qing Dynasty Carved Wood Dragon Panel Superbly carved in huanghuali wood (attributed) in layered relief with nine dragons each with four claws. The central dragon with sinuous wreathen body in front profile with head carved in high relief with a captured pearl of wisdom flanked by four dragons each with conforming sinuous bodies. Set amongst cloud scrolls above a turbulent sea with cresting waves. Each corner of the rectangular shaped frame displays a brass plate engraved with foliate and dragon decoration.

117 x 220cm

The quality and depth of the carving on this panel is superb. It is comparable to carved Zitan and Huanghuali pieces from Imperial collections. A panel of comparable quality carved with a dragon is illustrated in Ming Qing Gongting Jiaju Da Guan, Vol.II, Beijing, 2006, pl. 571. The quality is also comparable to deeply carved cloud scrolls embellished with Taoist precious objects illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (II), Hong Kong, 2002, no. 206.

The panel also be compares favorably with a zitan cupboard carved with dragons and clouds, attributed to the Guangdong Workshops for the Western Chamber of Yingxin Hall, illustrated in the exhibition, Tributes from Guangdong to the Qing Court, 1987, Hong Kong, Catalogue, pl. 14.

Provenance: Acquired by the current owner in Beijing in the 1990s Note: This panel has been catalogued with the attributed timber and age after extensive research and consultation with the current owner and other experts in the field. However, all bidders must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of this description before bidding.

$50,000 - $100,000

976

An Impressive Chinese Ching Dynasty Silk Brocade Dragon Robe Finely embroidered in gold thread with a dragon to the upper section chasing a pearl of wisdom, with two further dragons to the lower section also rendered in gold thread set amongst scrolling clouds and with scattered auspicious emblems above a turbulent sea. The back of the robe conforming in design

140cm length 144cm width

$2,500 - $5,000

977

A Chinese Qing Dynasty Summer Robe With a finely embroidered forth rank badge with a goose and clouds to the front and back. Minor loose thread damage to the front badge.

114cm length

$1,500 - $2,500

978

A Chinese Ching Dynasty Style Throne Chair With rattan seat. The circular back panel carved with a dragon and scrolling clouds. The sides pieced and carved with dragons and scrolling tendrils. Each leg with a dragon mask with ball and claw feet united by a stretcher base

100cm width

$500 - $1,000

979

A Pair Of Chinese Elm Cosmetic Boxes Each with hinged pieced lid above cupboards opening to reveal three drawers

41 x 41cm

$400 - $800

980

A Good Quality Chinese Elm Ming Style Cabinet Two sectional. The upper section with panelled cupboards opening to reveal two drawers to the interior. The lower section with two drawers raised on square section legs

170cm height

$1,000 - $2,000

981

A Chinese Elm Sideboard With four frieze drawers above cupboards flanked by four drawers on square section legs

190 x 44cm

$400 - $800

982

A Good Quality Late 19th Century Chinese Rosewood Vase Stand The circular top with inset porphyry marble, the frieze pierced and carved with scrolling tendrils and flower heads raised on gracefully tapering legs further embellished with scrolling tendrils and flower heads terminating in paw feet

91cm height, 26cm diameter

$400 - $800

983

A Chinese Red Lacquer Art Deco Style Cabinet

70cm height 60cm width

$300 - $500

984

A Late 19th Century Chinese Kitchen Cabinet Probably from the Ningbo Zhejang province. With fret carved panels to the upper section and two drawers to the interior

170 x 96cm

$300 - $600

985

A Pair Of Chinese Embroidered Panels Each depicting auspicious Buddhist motifs with a large central lotus flower framed by smaller lotus flowers, an endless knot and a right facing swastika.

30 x 23cm

$400 - $800

986

An Impressive Javanese Brass Alloy Vajra Ghenta Buddhist Temple Bell ( Dril Bu) Stupa form with dorje scepter finial with four masks in relief to the base of the handle. The bell (dril bu) is the most common musical instrument associated with Tantric Buddhist ritual. Held in the left hand, the dril bu (clapper bell) is always paired with a scepter (dorje), which is held in the right. The scepter symbolizes method, bliss, and male aspects while the bell represents wisdom, emptiness, and the female aspects. Both principles are necessary to achieve enlightenment. The bell handle traditionally matches in decoration the scepter it is paired with These bells were produced in Java, Indonesia, during the eleventh century to fifteen century. Buddhism flourished in Indonesia at that time, before Islam became the dominant religion. A similar but smaller example is held in the Metroplitan Museum collection in New York.

41cm height

$500 - $1,000

987

A Large Qing Dynasty Red Lang Yao Plum Glazed Bottle Vase Some small frits to the glaze at the foot

50cm height

$3,500 - $5,000

988

A Large And Impressive Ming Dynasty Loquan Charger Impressed with a floral design to the centre. The rounded sounds with incised vertical ribbing, the rim flat and slightly inverted. Covered all over in an unctuous sea green celadon glaze. The foot and rim glazed except for a wide ring for firing. 14-15th Century

Provenance: Henning collection. Purchased from Dunbar Sloane May 2011

43cm diameter

$3,000 - $4,000

989

A Chinese Qing Dynasty Kangxi Period Blue And White Dish With wide foot with steep rounded sides and everted flange. Decorated to the sides with mountainous landscapes and the flanges with diaper patterns interspaced with six cartouches. The interior with a scene of three warriors on horseback in a landscape setting in underglaze blue. The foot with a Lingzhi or sacred fungus in a double circle. The rhombic brocade design on the flange of this bowl is commonly seen in the late 17th century on both domestic and export ware. The dominant warrior appears to be the Tang General Guo Ziyi who was famous for quelling the An Shi rebellion during the Tang dynasty

Provenance: Henning collection

36.5cm diameter

$6,000 - $9,000

990

A Chinese 19th Century Canton Porcelain Famille Rose Jug Profusely decorated, the front hand painted in overglaze enamels with a court scene, the sides with four vignettes depicting figures in various pursuits. The jug further embellished with floral and butterfly painted decoration. The interlaced strap handle with old staple repairs. Various other faults also evident including a crack to the interior

22cm height

$100 - $200

991

A 19th Century Chinese Canton Export Ware Dish Oval shape, hand painted in famille rose and famille verte enamel with figures on verandas intersected by panels painted with birds flowers and butterflies. Rim frits and minor paint loss

28cm length

$100 - $200

992

A 19th Century Chinese Canton Export Ware Tea Pot Hand painted in predominant famille rose enamel with alternating panels with figures in interior and exterior settings and birds and floral decoration. Small frits to the lid rim

15cm height

$300 - $500

993

A Pair Of 19th Century Chinese Blue And White Export Dishes Each of rectangular shape. One hand painted with a fishing village and the other with birds nesting in a garden. One with chip to the rim

27cm length

$400 - $600

994

Two 19th Century Chinese Blue And White Export Dishes Each of rectangular shape. One hand painted with ducks and a river with flowering trees and the other with birds in a garden. Each with single rim chip

38cm length

$400 - $600

995

A 19th Century Chinese Blue And White Export Dish Rectangular shape. Hand painted with ducks beside a river with flowering trees

38cm length

$300 - $500

996

Late 19th Century Chinese Porcelain Cabinet Plate Together With A Dish And Two Small Plates Each hand painted in overglaze enamels with floral and butterfly decoration

$200 - $300

997

Six Assorted Chinese Celadon Glazed Bowls Two bowls faulted

$100 - $200

998

Chinese Carved Ivory Tusk on Stand

Profusely carved with a village scene with fine detailing 39cm length

$350 - $600

999

Three Chinese Porcelain Blue And White Dishes Together With A Tea bowl And Two Small Bowls

$100 - $200

1000

Chinese Blue And White Porcelain Pillow Tea Caddy And Four Snuff Bottles Three snuff bottles missing their stoppers, the tea caddy faulted and with missing lid

$100 - $200

1001

Chinese 18th Century Tea Bowl And Associated Saucer Each hand painted. Small frits the tea bowl rim

$40 - $80

1002

A Carved Wood Confucian Sage 78cm height

$100 - $200

1003

Tang Dynasty Sancai Glazed Bowl 13cm diameter

$350 - $500

1004

A Chinese Ming Dynasty Longquan Vase Ovoid shape, incised with a lotus flower design

Provenance: Henning collection 30 cm height

$800 - $1,200

1005

Chinese Bronze Censor On Stand Together with a Bronze Vase Stand

$150 - $250

1006

Chinese Cloisonné Tea Pot Together With A Cloisonné Vase

$200 - $300

1007

Three Chinese Paintings One on rice paper and two on silk depicting a magistrate, a court lady and a junk at sea 26 x 15 cm and 15 x 26 cm

$150 - $250

1008

A Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty (386535) Gray Pottery Ox And Cart The cart with canopy and two separate large wheels. Some losses and repairs

Provenance: Henning collection 42cm length, 16cm height

$400 - $1,000

1009

Chinese Republic Period Peking Glass

Bowl Engraved to the interior and exterior with lotus flowers and fish decoration

16cm diameter

$100 - $200

1010

Signed Ivory Erotic Netsuke

$100 - $200

1011

A Chinese Copper And Cloisonne Buddha Seated on a stepped lotus throne with hands in the Dhyana (meditation mudra)

19cm height

$200 - $400

1012

A Gilt Bronze Medicine Buddha Statue

Modeled seated on a lotus throne holding a sacred myrobalan plant and healing vase with a draped robe embossed and engraved with scenes from the life of Shakyamuni Buddha.

23cm height

$200 - $400

1013

A Nepalese Painted Bronze Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha Seated holding a bowl and with hands in the bhumisparsha (earth touching) mudra

27cm height

$300 - $600

1014

A Nepalese Gilt Brass Statue of Manjushri

The bodhisattva of wisdom with a painted face, modelled typically holding a sword aloft seated on a lotus throne

23cm height

$200 - $400

1015

A Nepalese Copper Statue of the Bodhisattva Green Tara

21cm height

$150 - $250

1016

A Gilt Brass And Cloisonne Medicine

Buddha Statue Modeled seated on a lotus throne holding a sacred myrobalan plant and healing vase.

20cm height

$200 - $400

1017

A Japanese Gilt Bronze Buddha Seated on a double lotus throne

28cm height

$300 - $500

1018

Chinese Gilt Metal Figure of Hotei Buddha

38cm height

$100 - $200

1019

A Large 19th Century Thai Bronze Buddha Seated in the Bhumisparsha Mudra on a lotus throne

50cm height 40cm width

$2,000 - $3,000

1020

Thai Bronze 18th Century Buddha Figure The meditating figure seated in padmasana (double lotus) posture on a lotus throne with hands in the Dhyana (meditation mudra)

26cm height

$500 - $800

1021

Thai 19th century Bronze Chiang Saen Style Buddha Figure Seated in mediation on a lotus throne with hands in the Bhumisparsha mudra

27cm height

$500 - $800

1022

Thai 19th century Gilt Wood Buddha Figure Standing on a plinth base. Losses to the figure and the base

30cm height

$250 - $500

1023

A Chinese Opium Pipe With a gilded extendable lacquer stem and copper bowl and mouthpiece

46cm length extending to 68 cm

$50 - $100

1024

A Carved Chinese Walnut Shell Extensively carved with Shao Lao and numerous Lohan and Boddhisattva figures

8cm

$100 - $200

1025

A Decorative Chinese Blue And White Floor Vase Painted with auspicious shou longevity symbols and floral decoration

57cm height

$150 - $300

1026

A Large Pair of Chinese Floor Vases Each painted in underglaze blue with dragons and clouds

68cm height

$500 - $1,000

1027

A 19th Century Chinese Export Black Lacquered Box Rectangular shape with chamfered corners. Decorated in gilt with figures, lion dogs and dragons framed by profuse floral detailing raised on gilded lion’s

paw feet

30cm width

$400 - $800

1028

Two Chinese Sanci Green Glazed Pottery Parrots Each standing on a rocky base

Provenance: Purchased in Shanghai

26cm height

$200 - $400

1029

Chinese Sanci Green Glazed Pottery Parrot Modelled standing on a rocky base

Provenance: Purchased in Shanghai

22cm height

$100 - $200

1030

Three 19th Century Chinese Tenmoku Glazed Pots And A Ginger Jar

$200 - $400

1031

Chinese Hand-Woven Rattan Lacquered Food Basket With three stacking trays

35cm height

$100 - $200

1032

A Decorative Chinese Vase Decorated in gilt and silver with a crane reserved on an orange ground

43cm height

$100 - $200

1033

Pair Of Decorative Chinese Vases With lion dog masks to the shoulder and moulded floral decoration on a blue ground

44cm height

$200 - $400

1034

Signed Ivory Erotic Netsuke

$100 - $200

1035

A Hand Knotted Chinese Rug With floral decoration on a blue and white field

175 x 86 cm

$200 - $400

1036

A Large Selection Of Orientations Asian Art Magazine Various dates

$150 - $300

1037

Chinese Stacking Food Basket With woven rattan panels and top

40cm height

$150 - $250

1038

A Chinese Carved Wood Lion Foo Guardian Dog And Cub With a Brocade ball Standing on a rocky outcrop with glass eyes and bone teeth

26cm

$200 - $400

1039

A Good Quality Javanese Carved Wood Skull With Bone Teeth

12cm height

$400 - $800

1040

A Pair of Chinese Blue And White Porcelain Wall Panels Each hand painted with pagoda roofed houses in a mountainous landscape setting. The frames carved and pierced with scrolling foliate boarders

100 x 63cm

$400 - $800

1041

A Large Chinese Porcelain Vase Ovoid shape. Hand painted with Bodhisattvas and Immortals receiving offerings.

46cm height

$500 - $1,000

1042

A Chinese Ming Dynasty Vase Baluster shape with Jun glaze

30cm height

$1,000 - $1,500

1043

A Large and Impressive Chinese Multicolored Lacquer Vase Carved with vine and fruit decoration. Qianlong mark to the base and possibly of the period. Some minor damage evident.

40cm height

$10,000 - $15,000

1044

Large Cantonese Famille Rose Export

Ware Vase Two handled ovoid shape, decorated with 2 large panels of figures, birds, blossoms and peaches and 2 smaller panels to the neck

42.5cm height

$200 - $400

1045

Chinese Artist Unknown

Wong Tai Sin Mountains, Hong Kong

Watercolour

Signed with calligraphic script and chop seal marks

67 x 132cm

$800 - $1,400

1046

A Late Chinese 19th Century Lidded Blue And White Porcelain Vase Hand painted with a village beside a river set in a mountainous landscape. Chips to the lid and rim

33 cm height

$150 - $300

1047

A Large Decorative Chinese Buddhist Temple Lion Dog Together With A Pair Of Lion Dogs

$200 - $400

1048

Six 19th Century Chinese Kangxi Style Dishes Each hand painted in blue and white with battle scenes. Rim frits evident 13cm diameter

$150 - $250

1049

Three Indonesian Javanese Wayang Shadow Play Puppets Cut leather, decoratively painted and gilded with wood rods and handles

60cm height

$150 - $300

1050

Large Japanese Anagama Fired Bowl Complete with original paulownia wood box

28cm height, 21cm diameter

$200 - $300

1051

Four Japanese Ukiyo Woodblock Prints All later reprints after the original prints

Each 23 x 36 cm

$200 - $300

1052

A Japanese Gilt Bronze Figure of Kannon Buddha Modeled standing on a double lotus plinth holding a lotus flower in one hand. With detachable gilt mandorla and original box. 36 cm height

$500 - $1,000

1053

A Fine and Rare Japanese Taima Mandala

Hand Painted Thangka The Taima Mandala represents the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida ( Amitābha) bordered on three sides by parables from the Sutra on the Meditation on the Buddha of Infinite Life. This text recounts the promise at the core of the Japanese Pure Land School teaching: that those who concentrate on the Buddha Amida during life, and recite his name, will be escorted to his Pure Land, known as the Western Paradise, at the final moment of death. In that Pure land they will achieve enlightenment. This fine and rare Japanese thangka depicts an enormous palace with a golden pond presided over by Amida and his retinue. Musicians, dancers, and thirty-seven different types of celestial beings fill the skies and pavilions, surrounding the pond in the foreground. Those being born into the Pure Land emerge from lotus buds growing up through the water. The parables tell the story of Queen Vaidehi, who achieved birth there by performing sixteen meditations presented to her by Amida. The scenes along the bottom represent the nine levels of birth in the Pure Land, from lowest to highest. Based on Chinese Tang-dynasty compositions, the Taima Mandala was introduced to Japan in the Nara period (710–84), along with teachings about Amida’s Pure Land.

A similar but earlier example held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection in New York. Another similar example also held in the Boston Museum of Art

Backed on a fine Tibetan style lotus flower brocade and complete with original box

79 x 72cm

$8,000 - $12,000

1054

A Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Vase by Kinkozan Baluster form, the body painted with opposing panels emblematic of spring and autumn, one side with male and female mandarin ducks beside a river, the other side with two hens beneath a flowering tree reserved against a blue ground, enriched with gilt and polychrome enamel flower heads and foliate borders. Gilt signature to the base. Some minor gilding loss to the top rim

32cm height

$6,000 - $8,000

1055

A Good Japanese Black Lacquer Buddhist altar (Butsudan) With double hinged doors opening to reveal gilt lacquered interior with further double hinged lattice doors below a frieze carved with flying cranes opening to reveal a tripartite architectural interior above four small drawers, a further long drawer on a base with sliding cupboard doors. Complete with an array of subsidiary Buddhist religious accessories (Butsugu) including candlesticks, incense burners offering stands and prayer books.

170cm height. 74cm width

$3,000 - $5,000

1056

A Late Meiji Period Cloisonne Vase in the Manner of Namikawa Sosuke Ovoid form raised from a circular foot decorated with nesting birds in a flowering tree upon a grey trianon ground

38cm height

$400 - $800

1057

Japanese Bottle Vase, Sake Bottle And Bowl

$40 - $80

1058

Two Japanese Meiji Period Ukiyo-e (Wood Block Prints) One depicting a Samuri warrior and the other a courtesan in a dragon robe

36 x 25cm

$50 - $100

1059

Japanese Ukiyo Woodblock Print By Utagawa Hiroshige Travellers Passing a Shrine in the Morning Mist

Later reprint after the original 24 x 37cm

$50 - $100

1060

A Japanese Meiji Period Copper Tea Caddy Decorated with chrysanthemum flowers

12cm height

$100 - $200

1061

Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Vase Inlaid with a nesting hen on a branch, sold together with a small bronze vase and a hinged copper box

$100 - $200

1062

Japanese Meiji Period Kutani Vase The front panel painted with warriors in a mountainous landscape, the back panel with exotic birds in a flowering garden

31cm height

$100 - $200

1063

A Japanese Sumidagawa Lidded Jar The lid with a seated arhat rendered in high relief. The jar decorated with an arhat receiving offerings Sumidagawa was made for export to the West and is usually heavy and covered with figures in relief. This distinct type of stoneware pottery got its name from the Sumida River running near the Asakusa pottery district near Tokyo.

20cm height

$350 - $600

1064

A Japanese Late Meiji Period Coral Glazed Censor

19cm heigh 24cm diameter

$200 - $400

1065

A Japanese Sumidagawa Dish Oval shape with five figures in high relief

22cm width

$250 - $500

1066

A Japanese Imari Bottle Vase

23cm height

$100 - $200

1067

A Pair Of Japanese Meiji Period Imari Cabinet Plates

$100 - $200

1068

A Decorative Japanese Brush pot With an andromorphic monkey wearing a robe standing in front of the cylindrical pot with two small monkeys modeled in high relief

28cm height

$150 - $300

1069

Karel Burrows Courtesans II

Mixed media on handmade paper limited edition print (Artist’s proof)

Title inscribed and signed

76 x 55cm

$250 - $400

1070

Karel Burrows

Geisha III

Mixed media on handmade paper limited edition print (Artist’s proof)

Title inscribed and signed 76 x 55 cm

$250 - $400

1071

A Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Bottle Vase Decorated with a writhing dragon in relief. 24cm height

$100 - $200

1072

Japanese Meiji Period Imari Charger Hand painted with floral decoration and diaper patterns in shaped bands and with scattered floral mons and a circular panel with a vase spilling forth a profusion of flowers

46cm diameter

$900 - $1,400

1073

Japanese Bizen Pottery Vase Together with an associated hardwood stand. 30cm height

$50 - $100

COLLECTION OF JOSETTE BRYAN LOTS 1074 - 1090

1074

A 19th Century Korean Stoneware Water Bottle Pilgrim bottle form. lugged on each side for suspension. Spout upturned with recurved rim

18 x 16 cm

$100 - $200

1075

A Korean Goryeo Dynasty (935-1392) Celedon Glazed Bowl 14cm diameter

$200 - $400

1076

A Korean Goryeo Dynasty (935-1392) Celedon Glazed Bowl Underglaze incised leaf designs. Repaired and with rim chips

18cm diameter

$200 - $400

1077

An Early 2oth Century Korean Cosmetic Jar Celedon glaze. The lid painted with flying cranes

8cm diameter

$30 - $50

1078

An Unusual Korean Early 20th Century Soapstone Cosmetic Box Fashioned from a part cut and polished piece of stone

13 x 11cm

$100 - $200

1079

A Rare Large 19th Century Korean Stoneware Water Bottle Pilgrim bottle form. Lugged on each side for suspension. Spout upturned with recurved rim. Decorated with impressed foliate designs

26 x 27cm

$200 - $400

1080

A Korean Silla Period (668-936) Lidded Earthenware Pedestal Bowl Repaired

27cm height

$100 - $200

1081

A Korean Silla Period (668-936) Earthenware Storage Jar Together With A Small Tenmoku Glazed Jar Faults evident to each. 17 and 7cm

$100 - $200

1082

An Early 20th Century Korean Kimchi Jar Ovoid, brown glazed earthenware

19cm height

$40 - $80

1083

A Han Dynasty Earthenware Vase With inverted lip and incised decoration

Rim chips. 9cm height

$100 - $200

1084

A Korean Goryeo Dynasty (935-1392) Celedon Glazed Octagonal Bowl With inlaid chrysanthemum decoration

14cm diameter

$200 - $400

1085

A 16th Century Korean Water Dropper Rectangular shape with white celadon glaze decorated with a scrolling flower design Together with an early 20th century fish shaped water dropper

$200 - $400

1086

A Collection of Korean Pottery Roof Tile Fragments And Large Reference Collection Of Pottery Shards The shards from the Punch ‘Ong, Shilla and Goryeo periods. Housed for display in two museum boxes.

$200 - $400

1087

A 19th Century Korean Fretted Brass Brush Pot Tapering from a circular rim to a flared foot, pierced and decorated with two dancing female figures and pagodas

13cm height

$50 - $100

1088

An Early 20th Korean Traditional Gat (Hat) Board brim, edged with split bamboo

$40 - $80

1089

A 13th Century Korean Stoneware Jar Together With A 19th Century Stoneware Vase The jar chipped to the rim

Jar 18cm height. Vase 20cm

$200 - $300

1090

Korean Water Dropper Made in the shape of a peach. Glazed porcelain with cobalt blue and copper red decoration. Last half of 18th century. Throughout eastern Asia, writers and painters created their own ink by adding drops of water to dry pigment. Water droppers with tiny spouts were a standard accessory for any desk. A similar example to his one held in the Brooklyn Museum collection. 10cm height

$200 - $400

1091

A Korean Altar Table Zelkova wood with opening front panel

59cm width

$100 - $200

1092

Two Indian Hindu Tempura Pantings One depicting Krishna playing a flute with two attendants, the other with the Hindu goddess Durga riding a lion

Each 26 x 20cm

$100 - $200

1093

A Ming Dynasty Bowl Underglaze cobalt blue painting with scrolling floral designs. Rim chips and small hairline crack 13cm diameter

$100 - $200

1094

An 11th Century Philippine Earthenware

Jar Unglazed with lugs for suspension with cross hatched incised design to the main body of the jar

12cm height

$100 - $200

1095

Two North Eastern Laos Pha Hom Lai Blankets From Xam Nuia, Houa Phanh province, natural dyed woven textile with hemp and cotton border

$150 - $250

1096

Four Hmong embroidered panels Northern Laos, 1960s. Presented with indigo painted paper in perspex fronted frames

Each 30 x 30cm $150 - $250

1097

Two Hmong embroidered collars

$100 - $200

1098

Chinese Bonze lidded vase The cast Hu Shape vase made in the Warring states style. Captured ring handles to the sides. Decorated in panels with depictions of exotic creatures

24cm height

$600 - $1,200

1099

An Early 20th Century Chinese Painting Depicting the August Moon Festival Oil on board, 65 x 95cm

$1,000 - $2,000

1100

A Chinese Provincial Ming Longquan Celedon Glazed Dish Carved floral decoration with unglazed firing ring to the base

28cm diameter

$500 - $800

1101

A Decorative 19th Century Chinese Bi-Fold Screen The wood frame carved with exotic birds. Inset with two red and black lacquer panels with eagles rendered in mother of pearl and bone nesting on flowering trees 180 x 160cm

$800 - $1,200

1102

Two Chinese hand painted scroll paintings Each depicting figures in rocky landscape settings

Each 95 x 40cm

$300 - $500

1103

Four Chinese hand painted scroll paintings One with calligraphic script, two depicting figures in landscape settings and one with a lady playing a flute.

$200 - $400

1104

Eight Embroidered Chinese panels Various scenes

$300 - $500

1105

Fine Japanese Meiji Period Cinnabar Lacquer Over Porcelain Vase Floral decoration on a textured ground 22cm height

$400 - $600

1106

Pair Of Japanese Meiji Period Cloisonne Vases Slender ovoid bodies decorated with wisteria on dark blue ground with slight damage to the base of one vase 24cm height

$500 - $700

1107

A Chinese Bronze Canteen Water Heater Bottle With floral and calligraphic decoration in gilt. 13cm diameter

$100 - $200

1108

A Pair of 19th Century Chinese Porcelain Circular Plates Painted in iron red and gilt with a figures on a verandah within mountainous landscape framed by a foliate and cruciform border, diameter 22cm.

$100 - $200

1109

Utagawa Hiroshige The Great wave of Kanagawa and the Mie River scene Ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Later restrikes after the originals. 24 x 35 cm $150 - $300

1110

Japanese Ukiyo Woodblock Print by Harnobu Two Beauties on the seashore, later restrike after the original together with another Ukiyo print

$100 - $200

ENTRIES INVITED

Māori & Oceanic Art

September 2023

Enquiries

James Parkinson +64 4 472 1367

james@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Dunbar M Sloane +64 9 377 5820

auckland@dunbarsloane.co.nz

ENTRIES CLOSED

ENTRIES CURRENTLY INVITED

Military

19 April 2023

Enquiries

Bettina Frith +64 4 472 1367 jewellery@dunbarsloane.co.nz

ENTRIES CLOSED

ENTRIES CURRENTLY INVITED

Antique & Decorative Arts

April 2023

Enquiries

Anthony Gallagher +64 4 472 1367 antiques@dunbarsloane.co.nz

ENTRIES INVITED

Asian Arts

August 2023

Enquiries

James Parkinson +64 4 472 1367

james@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Anthony Gallagher +64 4 472 1367

antiques@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Applied Art & Studio Ceramics

August

August 2023

Enquiries

Rebecca Dargarin

+64 4 472 1367

art@dunbarsloane.co.nz

Dunbar M Sloane

+64 9 377 5820

auckland@dunbarsloane.co.nz

ENTRIES INVITED

Fine Jewellery

April 2023

Enquiries

Bettina Frith

+64 4 472 1367

jewellery@dunbarsloane.co.nz

ENTRIES INVITED

ENTRIES CURRENTLY INVITED

Affordable

Jewellery

May 2023

Enquiries

Bettina Frith +64 4 472 1367 reception@dunbarsloane.co.nz

SINGLE VENDOR COLLECTION

NZ Colonial

Tourist

Jewellery

April 2023

Enquiries

Bettina Frith

+64 4 472 1367 jewellery@dunbarsloane.co.nz

CONDITIONS OF SALE

1.

The highest Bidder is deemed to be the Buyer, and if during the Auction the Auctioneer considers that a dispute has arisen, the Lot in dispute shall be immediately put up again for sale.

2.

The Auctioneer has the right to refuse any bid and to advance the bidding at his absolute discretion.

3.

The Seller shall be entitled to place a reserve on any Lot and the Auctioneer shall have the right to bid on behalf of the Seller for any Lot on which a reserve has been placed.

Dunbar Sloane Ltd have the right to withdraw or divide any Lot or to combine any two or more Lots at their sole discretion.

4.

The Buyer shall forthwith upon the purchase give in his/her name and permanent address.

The Buyer may be required to pay down forthwith the whole or any part of the Purchase Money, and if he/she fails to do so,the Lot may at the Auctioneers absolute discretion be put up again and resold.

5.

Each Lot sold by the Seller thereof with all faults and defects therein and with all errors of description and is to be taken and paid for whether genuine and authentic or not and no compensation shall be paid for the same.

Dunbar Sloane Ltd act as agents only and neither they nor the Seller are responsible for any faults or defects in any Lot or the correctness of any statement as the authorship, origin, date, age, attribution, genuineness, provenance or condition of any Lot.

All statements in the Catalogues, Advertisements or Brochures of forthcoming sales as to any of the matters specified in (b) above are statements of opinion, and are not to be relied upon as statements of representations of fact, and intending purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to all of the matters specified in (b) above, as to the physical description of any Lot, and as to whether or not any Lot has been repaired.

satisfies Dunbar Sloane Ltd had considered in the light of the entry in the Catalogue the Lot is a deliberate forgery then the sale of the Lot will be rescinded and the purchase price of the same refunded.

7.

To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in settlement of Purchase, no Lot can be taken away during the times of sale, nor can any Lot be taken away unless it has been paid for in full.

All lots are to be paid for and taken away at the Buyer’s expense within two working days from the sale. Purchases, whilst in our care, will be insured for this period (subject to terms and conditions).

8.

The Buyer shall pay to Dunbar Sloane Ltd a premium of 19% on the hammer price together with GST at the standard rate on the premium, and agrees that Dunbar Sloane, when acting as agent for the Seller, may also receive commission from the Seller.

The Seller and Dunbar Sloane Ltd do not make or give, nor has any person in the employment of Dunbar Sloane Ltd any authority to make or give, any representation or warranty. In any event neither the Seller nor Dunbar Sloane Ltd are responsible for any representation or warranty, or for any statement in the Catalogues, Advertisements or Brochures of forthcoming sales.

6.

Not withstanding any other terms of these conditions, if within 7 days after the sale Dunbar Sloane Ltd have received from the Buyer of any Lot notice in writing that in his view the Lot is deliberate forgery and within 9 days after such notification, the Buyer returns the same to Dunbar Sloane Ltd in the same condition as at the time of sale and

On failure of a Buyer to take away and pay for any Lot in accordance with Condition 7, Dunbar Sloane Ltd reserves any other right or remedies. To resell the Lot or cause it to be resold by public sale, any money paid in part payment being forfeited, any deficiency attending such resale after deducting all costs incurred in connection with the Lot to be made good by the defaulting Buyer, and any surplus to be the Seller's or: To store the Lot or cause it to be stored whether at their own premises or elsewhere at the sole expense of the Buyer, and to release the Lot only after payment in full of the purchase price together with interest there on of 5% above Bank minimum lending rate, the accrued cost of removal, storage and insurance (if any) and all other costs incurred in connection with the Lot.

If the Lot has been in store pursuant to (ii) for more than 6 months, to remove the Lot from store and to exercise the right set out in (i).

BUYERS GUIDE

BEFORE AUCTION

The terms and conditions under which the buyer acts at a sale are detailed at the back of this catalogue. We recommend that you read and understand these conditions of business before registering to bid at an auction. This sale is subject to the conditions of business printed in this catalogue and to the reserves.

Viewing

All lots are available for inspection prior to the sale. Although staff will endeavour to answer your enquiries, and give advice, the final decision to bid, is at your discretion and liability.

Pre-Sale Estimates

The estimated prices printed below the catalogue descriptions are in New Zealand dollars and are the approximate prices expected to be realised, excluding buyers premium. They are not definitive, they are prepared well in advance of the sale and they are subject to revision.

Condition Reports

Dunbar Sloane Ltd will provide a verbal condition report if you would like an opinion on any particular lot prior to purchasing. These must be requested at least 24 hours before the commencement of auction. All goods are sold “as is” and it is up to the buyer to satisfy themselves as to the condition of an item before the auction.

THE AUCTION

Buying at Auction

You are able to bid using the following four methods:

1. Bidding in the Room

To bid at the auction you will need to register for a bidding number at the front desk either during the viewing or prior to the auction. Please bid clearly and promptly using your bidding number.

2. Absentee Bidding

If you are unable to attend the auction, Dunbar Sloane Ltd can bid on your behalf according to your written instructions. This is a free service for intended buyers. Please complete clearly the form at the back of this catalogue and submit it to Dunbar Sloane Ltd at least 24 hours before the sale to ensure it is safely received. Lots will be purchased for you as reasonably as possible, subject to other bids in the room and to reserves.

3. Telephone Bidding

If you are unable to attend the auction, you can elect to bid by telephone (subject to availability). Telephone bidding must be arranged with Dunbar Sloane Ltd prior to the sale and is subject to a minimum lot estimate of $500 or greater. Please note that the auctioneer determines the increments in bidding, not the telephone bidder. We accept no responsibility if for whatever reason we are unable to contact you and as such recommend leaving a covering bid.

4. Live Online Bidding

We offer live online bidding on our website: www.dunbarsloane.co.nz

Registering online does not automatically register to bid, and further identification maybe required, especially if you are an International client.

Selling Rate

Fine Art auctions are generally conducted at the rate of about 60 lots per hour. However, this can vary.

AFTER THE AUCTION Payment

Payment for purchase is due in New Zealand dollars within 48 hours from the date of sale by cash, cheque, eftpos or electronic transfer. Due to the Anti Money Laundering Act we no longer accept cash or cheques for purchases of $10,000 or over. Bank details as follows:

Dunbar Sloane Ltd

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Swift Code ANZBNZ22

Please include details of sale date and lot numbers with all payments. International clients will need to add an additional $25NZD to cover bank transfer fees.

Collection of Purchases

Property purchased can be collected as soon as full payment has been received. Any items not collected within seven days of the auction may be subject to a storage fee. Insurance (subject to terms and conditions) applies for up to two working days from the date of the sale whilst items are in our care.

Items must be paid for straight away and a second account for courier/freight charges will follow as soon as possible when we have confirmed courier charges.

Packaging and Transportation

We advise buyers to arrange transport and insurance with their preferred provider/s. We accept no responsibility for loss or damage in transit. For smaller items able to be couriered, Dunbar Sloane Ltd can pack and courier for a fee. This is to be paid before the goods leave our premises. We pack with care, however we take no responsibility for damage once your goods leave our premises. It is up to the buyer to arrange insurance to cover any damage or loss in transit.

If you have not bought from Dunbar Sloane before, please read the following notes. Staff will be pleased to answer any questions you may have.