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Lot 45
Ca. 664–332 BCA set of three finely modelled blue-glazed faience shabti figures in mummiform pose. Wearing a lappet wig and false beard, with detailed facial figures modelled on the front. The figures are mummiform, and have two incised hands emerging from their chest, holding an incised adze and hoe each (farming/irrigation implements). The front of the bound and mummiform legs and stomach is incised with a hieroglyphic inscription, saying, "The illuminated one, the Osiris. The illuminated one, the Osiris". The term "the Osiris" is often attached to the deceased individual in Egyptian funerary literature, as part of a human's journey to the next life included merging with the god Osiris, so it here references the dead person more than the god. Similarly, the term "the illuminated one" is typically attached to the deceased; it probably refers to how the deceased was also considered to merge with the sun god Ra at one point on their journey, juxtaposing their integrations with both Osiris and Ra. The name (of a person named Kheby) is written down the dorsal column on the rear. Size: L:Set of 3: 65.5-65.7mm / W:14.8-15mm ; 23gProvenance: Private London collection; ex. B. Kickx and J. Peeters collections, pre 1978, Belgium.
Lot 34
Late Dynastic Period, Ca. 664-332 BCA set of three finely modelled blue-glazed faience shabti figures in mummiform pose. Wearing a lappet wig and false beard, with detailed facial figures modelled on the front. The figures are mummiform, and have two incised hands emerging from their chest, holding an incised adze and hoe each (farming/irrigation implements). The front of the bound and mummiform legs and stomach is incised with a hieroglyphic inscription, saying, "The illuminated one, the Osiris. The illuminated one, the Osiris". The term "the Osiris" is often attached to the deceased individual in Egyptian funerary literature, as part of a human's journey to the next life included merging with the god Osiris, so it here references the dead person more than the god. Similarly, the term "the illuminated one" is typically attached to the deceased; it probably refers to how the deceased was also considered to merge with the sun god Ra at one point on their journey, juxtaposing their integrations with both Osiris and Ra. The name (of a person named Kheby) is written down the dorsal column on the rear. Size: L:Set of 3: 69-72mm / W:44908mm ; 24.44gProvenance: Private London collection; ex. B. Kickx and J. Peeters collections, pre 1978, Belgium.
Lot 46
Ca. 664–332 BCA group of three pale blue-glazed faience shabti figures in mummiform pose. Wearing a lappet wig and false beard, with detailed facial figures modelled on the front. The figures are mummiform, and have two incised hands emerging from their chest, holding an incised adze and hoe each (farming/irrigation implements). The front of the bound and mummiform legs and stomach is incised with a hieroglyphic inscription, saying, "The illuminated one, the Osiris. The illuminated one, the Osiris". The term "the Osiris" is often attached to the deceased individual in Egyptian funerary literature, as part of a human's journey to the next life included merging with the god Osiris, so it here references the dead person more than the god. Similarly, the term "the illuminated one" is typically attached to the deceased; it probably refers to how the deceased was also considered to merge with the sun god Ra at one point on their journey, juxtaposing their integrations with both Osiris and Ra. The name (of a person named Kheby) is written down the dorsal column on the rear. Size: L:Set of 3: 68.5-70.7mm / W:14-15mm ; 24.64gProvenance: Private London collection; ex. B. Kickx and J. Peeters collections, pre 1978, Belgium.
Lot 30
Aboriginal art Northern Australia, a coolamon with adze carved with remnants of original pigments, length 67cm width 24cm.Provenance: From the Estates of Constance Mary Hazeldine (Hazel) Wheeler (nee Roberts) and Vincent Harold Roberts (Harry), born 18th November 1887. Thence by family descent. Harry Roberts served in the 9th Australian Light Horse from 26 October 1914 - 12 June 1919. Harry had a smallholding south of Melrose, in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, with his wife Winifred. Sadly Winifred died, leaving Harry with their three very young daughters. Not knowing how to cope, Harry travelled by ship to visit his relatives in the U.K. It was decided that his niece, Constance Mary Hazeldine (Hazel) Wheeler (nee Roberts) would travel back with them to Australia to help look after her young cousins, her uncle and the smallholding. Hazel was just 16 years old. They set sail in 1928. Hazel stayed in Australia with her cousins and uncle for approximately 3 years. After which time Harry sold his smallholding and they all returned to the U.K. Harry and Hazel acquired and owned these Aboriginal artefacts while in Australia and brought them back upon their return to the U.K. The Aboriginal items are understood to be from the Arrernte People or Arunta tribe of the Arrernte Lands (Alice Springs) of the Northern Territory in Australia. Some were exhibited at the Budleigh Salterton Museum in Devon in 1984.
Lot 88
Two Egyptian faience shabtis Third Intermediate Period-26th Dynasty, circa 1070-550 B.C. A turquoise glazed mummiform shabti depicted with two hoes, details in black, with text for the owner, Ankhef-en-Khonsu, Deir el-Bahri, 21st Dynasty, 10.5cm high, and a green glazed shabti with striated wig, holding an adze and hoe, impressed with eight horizontal bands of text with the Saite version of the Book of the Dead, the 'shabti formula', the owner's named as the Wener priest Iahmes, the mother's name apparently 'Ir-iy-ir-bwt', 17.5cm (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Scottish Highlands.Lyon and Turnbull Edinburgh, Fine Furniture and Works of Art sale no.460, 20 April 2016, part lot 621. Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021), acquired from the above sale.Wener priests were connected with Letopolis in Lower Egypt.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 2310
A small group of mainly South Seas ethnic items, comprising a carved hardwood figural finial with applied beadwork necklace, length 23cm, a carved stone adze, length 18cm, a carved and mother-of-pearl inlaid item of boat form and a purse.Buyer’s Premium 29.4% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 6% (including VAT @ 20%) of the hammer price.
Lot 363
Mesolithic, c.8th-4th millennium B.P. A complete knapped flint adze, broadly rectangular in plan comprising parallel sides, rounded cutting edge and cortical butt; worked bifacially. 149 grams, 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in). Found near Lavenham, Suffolk, UK, on 10 January 2018. Property of a Suffolk, UK, collector. Accompanied by a copy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme report no.SF-609812. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
Lot 150
ANONYMOUS, KANO SCHOOL EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY A Japanese painting in ink and colour on paper depicting a farmer in a bamboo grove, the man using an adze to dig out bamboo shoots while snow falls around him, together with an ink painting of a monk holding a broom, possibly Jittoku, both framed and glazed, 50cm x 35cm max. (2) Provenance: from the Milne Henderson collection of Japanese art. The larger painting may be a depiction of Moso, one of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety often represented digging for bamboo shoots to feed his sick mother. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
Lot 210
SHELL ADZE BLADEThe following seventeen lots were formerly in the collection of Manfred Faulhaber (1937–2020) and are sent for sale by his son. Manfred Faulhaber was a collector and dealer and it is not known from whom or when he acquired this group. His son remembers them in his father’s possession at least as far back as the 1970s when he himself was born but it is probable that they date from some considerable time before then. A few retain old inscribed labels.33.4 cm. longProvenanceManfred Faulhaber (1937-2020)This lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to inform you that such licenses are usually not granted.
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Lot 1274
A Sepik River adze Papua New Guinea the handle with five carved masks, one being janus, to a janus head finial, rattan bound and with traces of red pigment, inscribed in yellow NEW GUINEA. WBSTR. 1898. and in white 4290, blade missing, 47cm long. Provenance William Dowling Webster (1868 - 1913) Lieut. Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827 - 1900), purchased from the above 8th June 1898. Mrs Stella Pitt-Rivers. Sotheby's, London, Primitive Works of Art, 30th March 1981, Lot 63, part. See The Database for Pitt-Rivers's ''Second' Collection, Volume 6 page 1981 / 2 (B) being recorded as purchased from Webster on 8th June 1898 for £3.10.0 and displayed In Farnham Museum Room 7, case 60 or 61. The record includes a detailed watercolour of the adze.
Lot 1301
SIX TRAYS CONTAINING VINTAGE HAND TOOLS including a 8in Coffin Plane, a 6in router plane (no blade), a moulding plane, a Record No24 Stillson (rust but working), Blacksmithing tools, an Adze head, a two piece Chesterman combi square set, a Stanley No78 plough plane (rusty), a quantity of wood chisels etc
Lot 43
Franklin Polar Expedition. Original manuscript instructions for the building of 4 boats used on the Rae-Richardson Arctic Expedition of 1848, the first a document dated at Portsmouth Yard, 23 April 1847, giving details of ‘Dimensions and scantlings of two boats to be built by Contract for the Arctic Expedition’ at Portsmouth Dockyard, then giving a list of materials and sizes with further text below, ’The boats to be built of the very best seasoned materials, as light as possible, consistent with strength, and to be fitted according to the usage of the dockyard, or as shall be pointed out by the surveying officer; the fastenings to be copper throughout. The boats to be finished in all respects, in a workmanlike manner, and to be such as shall be approved of by the officers of the dockyard’, the boats to be delivered to store by 15 May 1847, 1 page with integral blank leaf (watermark date 1846), together with a second single sheet giving dimensions and scantlings for two similar boats to be built for the Expedition by Mr Camper [at Gosport], 1 page; a third sheet (paper watermark date 1839), giving summary technical details of all 4 boats, plus ‘Draught of Water’ and details of 4 tool chests and their contents, including axe (1), adze (1), hand vice (2, oil stone (1), hemp (7.5 lbs), hand saw files (6), small chisels (8), compasses (2), etc., 2 pages with integral blank, all folio, plus a fourth sheet titled ‘The Arctic boats are numbered 1, 2, 3 & 4 inside their Sternposts’ with brief listings of each below, signed by J[ohn] Whettam [shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard] and addressed to W[illiam] Rice, 1 page, 4to, the last two items with a few rough pencil calculations and some spotting, loosely contained in slightly frayed old wrapping (watermark date 1819) with a later manuscript note about the contents, dated May 1900Qty: (4)Footnote: The Rae–Richardson Arctic expedition of 1848 was an early British effort to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Polar Expedition of 1845. Part of a three-pronged rescue effort devised by the British Admiralty this expedition was led overland by Sir John Richardson and John Rae, the team exploring the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route near the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers. Although no direct contact with Franklin's forces was achieved, Rae later interviewed the Inuit of the region and obtained credible accounts that the desperate members of Franklin's team had resorted to cannibalism.Details about the ordering and the construction of the 4 boats used on the expedition is recorded by John Richardson in Arctic Searching Expedition…, 2 volumes, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1851, pp. 40-42. Technically demanding and innovative the boats had to be both lightweight and sea-worthy and Richardson commends William Rice, ‘Assistant Master Builder of Portsmouth Yard, for the care and skill with which he worked out a successful result’.The first sheet with the Portsmouth Dockyard dimensions is dated 23 April 1847. This was exactly one month before the ‘Victory Point Note’ was written, following Franklin’s first overwintering. It ends: ‘Sir John Franklin commanding the expedition. All well. Party consists of 2 officers and 6 men left the ships on Monday 24th May, 1847’, and is signed by Gore and De Voeux. It was found eleven years later in May 1859 by William Hobson with a second part, dated 25 April 1848, noting the death of Sir John Franklin, this time signed by Captains Crozier and Fitzjames.
Lot 86
*Sir Frank Brangwyn RA RWS (1867-1956) 'Verger'; 'Two Men Leaning on their Adze'; 'Men with Hatchets'; 'Building the New Home'; 'Sawyer' five lithographs from the 'Brangwyn Portfolio' published by E F d'Alignan and Paul Turpin in 1927, from a limited edition of 120 various sizes, largest 44 x 31cm, unframed (5) *Artist's Resale Right may apply to this lot.
Lot 336
Group of two Chinese jade pieces. One Qianlong period spinach jade quatrefoil brush washer, mounted in a metal frame with carved carnelian ball feet ca. 1900. One celadon jade adze head with incised geometric decoration.Dish; Height: 1 in x width: 4 in x depth: 2 1/2 in. Adze head; Length: 3 1/4 in x width: 3/4 in.
Lot 933
An Adze East Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea with a fibre bound stone blade, the handle inscribed EAST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, NEW GUINEA, L. A. BERNDT, 1953, 36cm long. Provenance Ronald Murray Berndt (1916 - 1990) Anthropologist. Working in Papua New Guinea 1951 - 53. Dr Leonhard Adam (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer, from the above.
Lot 894
A Papua New Guinea sago beater Melanesia with leaf fibre binding to the palmwood and wood elements, 84cm long, a Massim adze, 33cm long, a Moim fibre bound bamboo barbed spear tip, 44ccm long, a Papua New Guinea bamboo (diseased) pipe with burnt decoration, 23cm long, a bentwood axe handle with red pigment, collected in 1945, 24.6cm long, a Maprik model snake, 33.2cm long and a shuttle, 25.6cm long. (7) Provenance Dr Leonhard Adam (1891 - 1960) Anthropologist and lawyer. Mary-Clare Adam, anthropologist, Honorary Consul of Solomon Islands in Israel. Collected between 1974 and 1977.
Lot 1049
A Maori adze blade toki pounamu New Zealand nephrite, one side with an incised line running almost the whole length, with hand written identification label Ceremonial Maori execution Axe head, 19th century, 19.5cm long. Provenance Collected by the present owners father from New Zealand in the 1920's.
Lot 92
Late 19th/early 20th century Inuit seal club of multi piece construction with stone adze and vellum bound grip, L: 34 cm. Provenance; vendor informs us it was gifted to her husband in 1944 by his Uncle who served in the Royal Navy in North America. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)
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