A Superbly Carved Lime Spatula Representing Two Figures

Wood (ebony)
Northern (?) Massim, New Guinea
19th Century

Size: 31cm long - 12¼ ins long

Provenance:
Ex Anthony Meyer Gallery, Paris
Ex Private UK collection

Double figure spatulas are one of the rarest forms of representation in the Massim corpus. In 2014 Beran records only six examples in the corpus of published spatula. This rare example now brings the number up to seven.