Description: New Guinea, circa 1860
The shallow lenticular oval bowl with finely carved scrolling ornament and carved lizard to the exterior, traces of polychrome.
L. 150.2 cm
Provenance:
Collection Koens, Royal Dutch Marine officer and later boatsman in the Dutch-Indies in the early 20th century, thence by descent to the present owner, a private collector, Noord-Brabant