Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day Two - 18th September 2025
Lot 804
A Tonga club
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000
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Description
A Tonga club
Polynesia
with a seven lobe head, each with a square boss, with low channel below, the circular recess top with a central nodule, the rest carved all-over zig-zags and lines in a spiral,
89cm long.
Provenance
Albert Welch, who worked on the tea clipper, Thermopylea, during the 1890s, and thence by descent.