THE NGAIRE HART ESTATE COLLECTION Tuesday, 26 May 2020 - 2:00 PM start
An impressive Jane Brenkley Maori carved box
Realised: $1,300 plus premium
Lot Details
the lid uncommonly carved and painted with possum and stylised tuatara forms on a Maori mask and carved ground, the front with central stylised mask flanked by spiral forms, conforming sides and back, all with elaborate paua inserts; the lid interior pokerworked and painted with a lakeside cottage and epithet: 'May Your Heart Be Ever Happy..., Jane Brenkley 1954', the interior with decoupage cut-outs of young women on a wallpaper ground. Hinges require attention. 510 x 215 x 135mm.
