Lot Essay
Tag on bottom of the bowl reads: "Indian wood carving-Alaskan 1881."
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A FINE HAIDA SEAL BOWL
Details
A FINE HAIDA SEAL BOWL
Of splayed oval form, tapering head and rear flippers extending upwards on each side, face with large round eyes within oval recesses, incised circular nose and mouth showing teeth, exterior side panels with finely carved and incised forms of shallow relief, beveled edge on interior below rim, brown patina with oily residue
9¾in. (24.8cm.) long
Of splayed oval form, tapering head and rear flippers extending upwards on each side, face with large round eyes within oval recesses, incised circular nose and mouth showing teeth, exterior side panels with finely carved and incised forms of shallow relief, beveled edge on interior below rim, brown patina with oily residue
9¾in. (24.8cm.) long
Provenance
The Charles Miles Collection
Literature
Miles, 1963, p. 183, 7.123
The crisp relief carving suggests that this bowl may have been made by an artist who also worked in argillite. Another seal bowl by the same hand is in the Landes Museum, Hanover (Haberlin, 1979, p. 145, G5).
The crisp relief carving suggests that this bowl may have been made by an artist who also worked in argillite. Another seal bowl by the same hand is in the Landes Museum, Hanover (Haberlin, 1979, p. 145, G5).