ID 1158278
Lot 47 | Plat Îles Tami
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Longueur : 63.5 cm. (25 in.)
Provenance
Collection James Thomas Hooper (1897-1971), Arundel
Ralph Nash (1928-2014), Londres
Hélène Leloup (1927-2023) et Henri Kamer (1927-1992), Paris
Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en 1971 (inv. n° 4110-A)
Literature
Newton, D. et Waterfield, H., Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller/Tribal Sculpture. Masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1995, pp. 286 et 287
Newton, D., Arts des mers du sud. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of the South Seas. Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 1998, p. 209, n° 7
Geoffroy-Schneiter, B., Arts premiers/Tribal Art. Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, Paris, 1999, pp. 259-260 et 261
Peltier, P. et al., Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller/Shadows of New Guinea. Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections, Paris, 2006, pp. 170- 171 et 478, n° 88
King, J. et Waterfield, H., Provenance. Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760-1990, Paris, 2006, plat verso
Vanderstraete, A., Monnaies. Objets d’échange. Afrique - Asie - Océanie, Genève, 2016, pp. 112-113 et 188, n° 90 et 139
Butor, M., 6000 ans de réceptacles. La vaisselle des siècles, Lausanne, 2017, pp. 110-111 et 217, n° 54
Exhibited
Vieille Charité, MAAOA - Musée d'Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens, Arts des Mers du Sud. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, 5 juin - 4 octobre 1998
Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, 3 octobre - 25 novembre 2006
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Monnaies. Objets d’échange. Afrique - Asie - Océanie, 11 février - 30 octobre 2016
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 6000 ans de réceptacles. La vaisselle des siècles, 17 mai 2017 - 25 février 2018
Further details
Plate, Tami Islands, Papua New Guinea
Medium: | Wood |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Wood |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Address of auction |
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