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Lot 303W

Two Maori Storehouse Door Jambs, New Zealand

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11 November 2019, 15:00 EST
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Two Maori Storehouse Door Jambs, New Zealand

whakawae
heights 41 1/2 & 42in (105.5 & 106.5cm)

Provenance
English Private Collection, reportedly collected on a voyage to the South Pacific around 150 years ago
Thence by descent

Each panel of rectangular form with the wall panels still attached in back, the front edge intricately carved with three solid figures, one above the other, each with naturalistic plain bodies and legs, with wheku faces; spirals with openwork on one side of each; rich, deep blackened patina.

Cf. Starzecka, Dorota, Roger Neich and Mick Pendergast, The Maori Collections of the British Museum, The British Museum Press, 2010, figs. 103 and 140

Saleroom notices

Please note that the provenance is a North Wales Private Collection, not an English Private Collection

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