African, Oceanic & Art of the Americas - 28th April 2022

Lot 1297

A Sepik bowl

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £20

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Description

A Sepik bowl

Papua New Guinea

relief carved a frog each side and with a male and female support handles, both with fibre, he with inset cowrie shell eyes and her with inset cut shell eyes,

43cm long, 19cm high.

Provenance

Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel.

Collected in 1978.