FOR MALAGAN

細節

An important new ireland figure
for malagan
The female standing with the right hand holding the pendulous right breast, the left holding the wing of a flying fish carved before the abdomen, a further flying fish below, two flying fish at the back, two birds carved to each side, their beaks holding between them a circular medallion, the large imposing head with a bird's head emerging from the mouth, tusks joining the nose and large ears which have pierced lobes, the headdress with three pierced crests about the coiffure of wood sticks, feather-like projections to the sides with medallions at their bases, painted in red, black and white, the eyes with inset shell opercula, the carved clam shell base on tapered support
172cm. high

來源

Serge Brignoni

出版

Gianinazzi, C. and Giordano, C. (editors), Extra-European Cultures, The Serge and Graziella Brignoni Collection, Lugano, 1989, p.67 and 254, fig. 379

注意事項

Vat rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium; the total amount payable is 137.5% of the hammer price.

拍品專文

The painted florettes on the forehead and the treatment of the fish in this impressive carving are characteristics shared with another figure for malagan collected by Prof. Dr. Thilenius before 1907, now in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva (Gunn, M., Ritual Arts of Oceania, New Ireland, Milan, 1997, no.27)