Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
standing behind a pair of S-shaped sticks, the rectangular shaped face below a conical headdress, with blue inset glass bead eyes, arrow-shaped nose, partly carved free, broad narrow mouth, the hands and ears carved likewise. On the back inscribed in black 'Wariab'.
H. 29 cm.
Provenance:Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset, acquisition ledger page 1587; William Downing Webster (1868-1913) aug. 1897 Webster nr. 1410 in white ink and bought from Cornelis Marinus Pleyte (1863-1917).
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some cleaning of the figure, the headdress is weathered.
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
L. 47,5 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
male and female figure dressed in cotton cloths.
H. 17 and 21 cm.
Provenance: Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam, 1982;
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with two compartments, the handle shaped as a zoomorphic head.
L. 31,5 cm.
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam mid 1980s.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the face moulded from cobweb, plant fibre and clay, traces of black and red pigments.
H. 11,3 cm., mounted.
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam 1980s.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
wooden janus head, braided plant fibre bindings, remnants of red pigments.
L. 145 cm.
Provenance: Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam 1988.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
L. 116,5 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
blade with black decoration, frigatebirds, handle with inlay mother of pearl
L. 142,5 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
topped by a anthropomorphic janus head.
L. 135 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
L. 35,3 cm. long
Provenance: James Hooper, London, inventory nr: H.755, old partly legible label: 'Coffey....'; Christie's London, 19-6-1979, Melanesian & Polynesian Art from the James Hooper Collection, lot 121 and Christie's London, 28-11-1983, lot 56. Published: S. Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection, London, 1975, fig. 755.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
H. 34 cm., mounted
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam 1990.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the blade separately attached by rattan strips and a lidded light wooden box most probably Mentawai Islands.
L. 161 and 74 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
prongs secured by plant fibre, lime pigments.
h. 23 cm.
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam 1992.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
26,7 x 9,4 cm.
Provenance: with inscription at the back: Santa Cruz LWRNC MAY 1899. Most likely acquired by George Fabian Lawrence (1861-1939).
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with a fine open worked design.
H. 26 and 19,6 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the top figure with pierced contours and engraved features, traces of white pigment.
H. 62 cm.
Provenance: Harvey Menist, Amsterdam, 1975
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
depicting a fregatbrid in turtois.
diam. 10,5 cm.
Provenance: Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam, 1990's.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
braided sennit string
Provenance: Peter Adler, London, 1993;
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
shell, turtle shell, plant fibre and pearl shell;
L. ca. 48 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
plant fibre strings, shell beads, terminating in seed pots.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with defects.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
one with four seed pods.
L. 15 - 29 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
of woven banana and hibiscus fibre.
151 x 37 cm. (fringes)
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam 1980. Kaeppler, A.L. (2008) The Pacific Arts of Polynesia & Micronesia, p. 107 '(...) rather than being worn, they were presented to the chief, who imbued them with sanctity by placing them on his spirit-shelf for four days as an offering to his ancestral spirits.' The skirts 'were then used for investiture, initiation, and burial of men of rank.'
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
braided and twisted sennit upper part with two lines of coix seeds, strung coloured glass and shell beads, shell bead strings with pallaquium nutshell pendants.
H. 52 cm.
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam 1987; Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
130 x 110 cm.
Provenance: Matthias L.J. Lemaire, Amsterdam 1975
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
on a rectangular base with openworked side panels, partly carved in relief and decorated with tacks.
H. 23 cm.
Grandparents Aldo van Eyck; Through family descent.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with wooden anthropomorphic head emerging from a crocodile's muzzle, obsidian stone blade mounted on a bamboo shaft, details in red, white and black pigments.
L. 164 and 32 cm. high (top only)
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
consisting of three turtle shell ornaments, three Micronesia, Woleai Islands, ear ornaments of intersecting shell and wood circles, a Solomon Islands, Choiseul Island, pearlshell pendant and another, a turtle shell comb, a turtle shell Malaita Island bracelet, Ta'ota'ofunu and a plaited plant fiber armband.
various sizes
Provenance: Loed van Bussel, Amsterdam, 1983, turtle shell comb
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
on a blue glass beaded necklace.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
set with seven cabuchon rubies, filigrain work, partly enamaled, a row of pampels at the bottom. The back strengthened with small wood panels. The pendant on three strings of black glass beads.
brutto 30 gram.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
weight 11,5 gram.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
set with turquoise stones.
L. 13.5 cm x W. 4.2 cm
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
a crouching figure topped by a tuft of hair mounted on a wrought iron shaft.
H. 143,5 cm. (without hair)
Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
blackened and shell inlaid eyes. (with breakage)
h. 23 cm.
Provenance: Collected by the father-in-law of the first wife of the brother of Aldo van Eyck; Old German private collection, before 1948. Photograph interior Binnenkant, 1948, by Jan Versnel.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the back side with a handle and painted geometric patterns.
H. 144 x 33,5 cm.
old metal label att. to the handle 'Dr. Reche'. Published: Strauven, Francis (1998) 'The shape of Relativity', 1998, pag. 457.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with two pairs of breasts on a notched pattern.
L. 55,5 x 48,5 cm.
Published: Straufen, Francis (1998), Aldo van Eyck, The Shape of Relativity, p. 382.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
below the blade a pair of eyes on both sides.
L. 336 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with an incised pattern filled with lime and two other spears. One with a notched design, traces of feathers the other a Solomon Islands, Buka spear, the shaft showing a.o. spear spirits, Kagoi, in bas-relief.
265,5 - 262 and 288 cm.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with polychrome geometrical pattern.
h. 24,4 and diam. 28 cm.
Provenance: Harvey Menist, Amsterdam, 1977.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the bottom with a pierced hole, the interior decorated with fine geometrical painted pattern in black slip on a white ground. With two written numbers on the bottom (restored)
diam. 19,8 and h. 8,3 cm.
Provenance: either Jisker Gallery, Albuquerque or Bishop Gallery, Los Angelos, ca. 1975.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the inner part decorated with fine intricate geometrical painted pattern in black slip on a white ground and four painted arrows on the outer rim. On the bottom a hand written number. (restored)
diam. 19 and h. 8 cm.
Provenance: either Jisker Gallery, Albuquerque or Bishop Gallery, Los Angelos, ca. 1975.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
in the shape of a fruit, with geometrical painted pattern. (restored cracks)
h. 9,3 cm.
Provenance: either Jisker Gallery, Albuquerque or Bishop Gallery, Los Angelos, ca. 1975.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the inner part decorated with fine geometrical painted pattern in black slip on a white ground, on the outer rim markings of black lines.
diam. 20,2 and h. 9,7 cm.
Provenance: either Jisker Gallery, Albuquerque or Bishop Gallery, Los Angelos, ca. 1975. Published: Strauven, Francis (1998) 'The shape of Relativity', 1998, pag. 456..
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
the inner part decorated with fine geometrical painted pattern in black slip on a white ground. The smallest bowl with handwritten number on the bottom. (restored cracks)
diam. 13 and 18 cm.
Provenance: either Jisker Gallery, Albuquerque or Bishop Gallery, Los Angelos, ca. 1975.
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Oceania, Africa & the Americas (501-845)
with ornamental geometrical pattern
h. 23 cm.
Provenance: Harvey Menist, Amsterdam, 1977.
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