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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas | 16 | $****** - ****** | Inlaid War Club, Fiji |
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Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) tooth inlays
“Colonel Knolly”; probably Louis Frederick Knollys, presumably collected in Fiji between 1875-1880 whilst serving as aide-de-camp to Governor Arthur Hamilton-Gordon William Downing Webster, Bicester, Oxfordshire (inv. no. 3898), presumably acquired from the above General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, Rushmore, Dorset, acquired from the above in 1898 Alexander Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, Rushmore, Dorset, by descent from the above by 1900 Captain George Pitt-Rivers, The Manor, Hinton St Mary, Dorset, by descent from the above by 1927 Stella Edith Lonsdale (Pitt-Rivers), London and Garéoult, by descent from the above by 1966Sotheby's, London, November 5, 1979, lot 85, consigned by the above Galerie Meyer, Paris Bonhams, London, June 17, 1991, lot 114 Hélène and Philippe Leloup, Paris, acquired at the above auction American Private Collection, acquired from the above in 1991
The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset, 1898 - circa 1965Galerie Meyer, Paris, Casse-tête. Armes et armements de l'Océanie, June 22 - August 31, 1989
General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, Catalogues of his Collections, 1882-1898, Vol. 8, p. 2129 Anthony J. P. Meyer, Casse-tête. Armes et armements de l'Océanie, Paris, 1989, p. 18, cat. no. 20
