Aboriginal Art
Aboriginal Art
Property from an American Private Collection
A Narrow Shield, South East Australia
Auction Closed
May 25, 09:41 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an American Private Collection
A Narrow Shield, South East Australia
19th Century
Carved and engraved hardwood
33 ⅞ in (86 cm)
With a reattached fabric label inscribed in black ink in an old hand: Fiji Island Sheild. [sic] of [?] 60 yrs ago. Mrs J. B. Browne. 625 K. St.
John S. Boskovich, Los Angeles
Sotheby's, New York, African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art, 17 November 2006, lot 230, consigned by the above
American Private Collection, acquired at the above auction
Sotheby's, New York, African, Oceanic and Pre Columbian Art, 17 November 2006, lot 230, consigned by the above
American Private Collection, acquired at the above auction
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 2009 - November 2012