■ BOUCLIER A SHIELD FLEUVE MURRAY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Height:... Lot 36

■ BOUCLIER A SHIELD FLEUVE MURRAY, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Height: 122 cm. (48 in.) US$38,000-54,000 PROVENANCE Galerie Schofel de Fabry, Paris Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels Private collection, acquired from the latter Cf. for a comparable shield, collected in 1872, see the specimen in the collections of the British Museum (inv. Oc1980, Q. 721). Other similar shields are reproduced in Davidson, D.S., A Preliminary Consideration of Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. IX, Philadelphia, 1937, p. 43, fg. 30C, or in Cooper, C. et al. Aboriginal Australia, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1981, p. 87, fg. S42, and in Barbier, J.P., Benitez-Johannot, P. et al, Boucliers d'Afrique, d'Asie du Sud-Est et d'Océanie du musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 1998, p. 233, pl. 98. To bid, please consult the "Sales information" section.