Lot #169 - A Sawos Pottery Plate
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Auction House:Theodore Bruce
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Sale Name:Fine Aboriginal & Oceanic Arts
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Sale Date:12 Mar 2017 ~ 11am
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Lot #:169
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Lot Description:A Sawos Pottery Plate
used as a vessel for serving food, the base with incised ancestral motifs decorated with natural earth pigments, Kwoiwod Village, Sepik plains, East Sepik Province, PNG -
Provenance:Robin Hodgson Collection: Robin lived and worked in PNG from 1969 to 2003 where she developed and ran the Melanesian Art Centre in Lae for 30 years. Robin and, until 1996, her former husband Richard Leahy, conducted regular artefact collecting trips to the Sepik River; the Trobriand Islands; the Papuan Gulf and the Highland regions.
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Estimate:A$100 - 200
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Realised Price:
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Category:Tribal
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