Lot 640
  • 640

A WILLIAM RICKETTS FIGURED EARTHENWARE DISH, CIRCA 1940

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 AUD
bidding is closed

Description

  • A WILLIAM RICKETTS FIGURED EARTHENWARE DISH, CIRCA 1940
  • 31.5cm long
modelled in the form of a shallow bark dish with a branch to one end, relief decorated with Aboriginal children and a possum, inscribed to the base 'the spirit can emerge free even from the limb of a gnarling old gum tree'



signed Wm. Ricketts

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