An Oceanic Painted Wood Shield
Sale 1246 - Pre-Columbian & Ethnographic Art
Oct 12, 2023
10:00AM CT
Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$7,560
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Lot Description
An Oceanic Painted Wood Shield
Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands, Circa 19th Century
Height 29 1/2 inches (74.93 cm).
Property from the Estate of Alexander Brody, Honolulu, Hawaii
Provenance:
Acquired from Anthony JP Meyer, Paris, France, 16 September 1987.
[accompanied with an invoice and catalogue]
Published:
Galerie Meyer, Le Pays Massim, Paris, 1987, no. 6.
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