SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND

Beyond Sacred: Aboriginal Art, The Laverty Collection
Sydney
8 March 2015
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A SHIELD

SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND

carved and shaped hardwood with deep carved geometric designs and traces of infilled white natural earth pigment decoration, the reverse with a deep cut lug handle

57.0 cm length

bears incised inscription verso: A.W. BARR

Estimate: 
$5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $11,400 (inc. BP) in Auction 38 - 8 March 2015, Sydney
Provenance

Sotheby's, Sydney, 19 November 1995, lot 54
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney