Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 19th February 2025
Lot 148
Two Naga pipes and two Naga pipe bowls
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £567
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Description
Two Naga pipes and two Naga pipe bowls
Nagaland
one with scorched decoration to the footed flared cylindrical bowl and with a thin bamboo stem, 22cm, another with a trumpet shape bowl and dyed cane and orchid stem binding, with an engraved bamboo mouthpiece and a with an attached needle, 23.5cm long, a faceted conical bowl with dyed cane and orchid stem binding, 10.5cm long, and a tapered conical bowl with a scroll tail, the underside inset a Victoria Empress copper coin, and inset a cast brass stem with bands of concentric circles and lines, 9.5cm long, all inscribed Naga Assam. (4)
Provenance
Hansjorg Mayer Collection.
Published
Julian Jacobs, The Nagas; Hill People of Northeast India, 1990. p. 335.