Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 607
‡ Three kap kap pendants New Ireland
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £5200
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Description
‡ Three kap kap pendants
New Ireland, Melanesia
shell, turtle shell and fibre; the circular discs with applied pierced fret circular panels, the larger with a leaf pouch, the middle one with a button fixing, one with a hand written label Kapkap Neumecklenburg,
14cm, 12.2cm and 7.5cm diameter. (3)
Provenance
Charles Ratton, Paris.
Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 1996, lot 194.