Lot 340
Important Maori Whakawae Door Jambs, ex-Sotheby's
Important Maori Whakawae Door Jambs, ex-Sotheby's
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New Zealand, 19th cent. “Carved side uprights of a doorway or window opening. Whakawae typically have a forward flange carved with human figures, one on top of the other. And sometimes the flat surfaces to the outer sides of the flange are also carved, usuaslly with spiral motifs” “Carved wooden whakawae (door Jamb) section, the early 19th century architectural piece carved with three conjoined ancestral figures with naturalistic bodies and wheku faces mounted on an intricately carved support with side profile wheku heads and takarangi double spirals with pakati detailing. Northland, 78 cm length., 78 cm length.” Tenoned ends. Add.9455vol7_p2074. Size: 53.5” (135.9cm) and 54.5”H (138.4cm).
Provenance: Private Chicago collection. Ex Sotheby’s London, July 1976, Lot 68 and 69; ex. Property of Mrs. Stella Pitt-Rivers from the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Dorset; Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900), Farnham, Dorset, acquired in 1899; ex. Frank Hyams, Dunedin. Listed as Add.9455vol7_p2074.
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Item #
71814
- Condition: Some losses evident, Provenance: Wagner Museum collection.
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