War shield · Papua New Guinea - Bismarck Archipel - New Britain - Arawe · ID: 3053169
Starting price
EUR 3,000
Estimated price
EUR 5,000
Provenance
Matthias L. J. Lemaire, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsKoren Schlomo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guy van Rijn, Brussels, Belgium
Private Collection, Amstelven, The Netherlands
Size
H: 130 cm
B: 27 cm
H: 51.2 inch
B: 10.6 inch
Description
wood / three-part, rattan, pigments, original binding, carved handle worked into the reverse, handwritten inventory number applied on the back: “27.585”
Typical shield composed of three adjoining wooden planks, carved in relief on the front and painted on the reverse, joined together with rattan strips. The incised decoration features four pairs of concentric circles, separated by two compartments filled with vertical zigzag motifs.
Comparing literature
Heermann, Ingrid (Hg.), Form, Farbe, Phantasie, Stuttgart 2001, p. 153 & 161, ill. 97