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Pigment dish, C-14 dating: 1520–1810 (94.9% probability)
Wood, pigment, plaited sago leaf anklet and armlet
22 x 9 x 3 cm (8 11/16 x 3 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.35
Artist Biography: (none)
PROVENANCE: "Pierre Langlois Collection, Paris; Charles Ratton Collection, Paris." (Catalog #201, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 115.)
PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The dish is carved in the form of a woman. It is pierced in the back and may be worn as an amulet or a pectoral ornament. The collection also includes a fake of this piece, carved in Europe without knowledge of New Guinean iconography. It was almost certainly based on the photograph in Rawson, 1973. It will be displayed with other fakes I have purchased in a study collection of the de Young Museum. I should point out, though, that I bought it long before I found a real one. Wishful thinking is the bane of collectors." (Catalog #201, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 115.)
1994 - The World of Tribal Arts, Mar. 1994: 16-17 (including the fake: see below).
1979 - Douglas Newton in Mead, 1979: 39.
1973 - Rawson, 1973, fig. 218.
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