An Early and Exceptional Narrow Club
An Early and Exceptional Narrow ClubEstimate $8,000 – $12,000
- Lot Sold $9,000 (Hammer Price)
- $10,800 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
UPPER CLARENCE RIVER, NEW SOUTH WALES
carved and engraved hardwood, white ochre, faint traces of Reckett's blue
LENGTH: 79CM
Provenance:
Alexander Stewart, Malara Goldfields,Timbarra region, NSW; thence by descent
Private collection
Cf. Carol Cooper et al., Aboriginal Australia, Sydney: Australian Galleries Directors' Council, 1981, pp.92-93, pl. S61-62 (illus.); for related examples, see also, Isabel Wilkinson, Forgotten Country, The Story of the Upper Clarence Gold Fields, Lismore: Northern Star Print, 1978, pp.27-36, for an in depth essay on Alexander Stewart and the Malara homestead.
This club is sold with a copy of Isabel Wilkinson, Forgotten Country, The Story of the Upper Clarence Gold Fields, Lismore: Northern Star Print, 1978.
NB: This lot is the middle club in the accompanying photograph