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A BONE MALA
6039 Composed of 108 bone segments, inlaid on the outside edges yellow
metal wires or tiny pieces of pale blue and red glass beads strung
6040 together on a cord passing through a two-section guru bead terminal
(wear, old chips)
16 | BONHAMS 15 1/2in (39.5cm) long

US$2,000 - 3,000

6039
THREE PAIRS OF GOLD SLIT-HOOP EARRINGS
The Philippines, 16th century or earlier
Each a slit hoop formed from a thin bent sheet of high karat gold: the
largest pair worked with a repoussé design accenting the opening for
the earlobe and also open on the center of the back wall , with later
gold suspension loops; the second pair formed with a convex edge
and concave walls ending at an center interior opening, a narrow
chain-patterned band applied on each side ear slit, with later yellow
metal wire loops; the smallest pair echoing the shape of the second
pair, but without decoration (all with dents, losses).
1 3/4, 1 3/8 and 1 1/8in (4.5,3.5 and 2.8cm) average diameter
23 grams gross weight

US$1,000 - 1,500

Provenance:
from an Oregon estate

For a discussion of pre-Spanish ear ornaments and examples of gold
slit hoops similar to this lot in collection of the Ayala Museum, Makati
City, see Florina H. Capistrano-Barker (ed.), Philippine Ancestral Gold
(Singapore, 2011), pp. 76-92 and fig. 1.66, p. 79; fig1.77, p. 90; and
fig. 1.78, p. 91.

PROPERTY FROM A TEXAS COLLECTION

6040
A BLACK GLAZED STORAGE JAR WITH WHITE SLIP
DECORATION
Burma, 17th/18th century
Thickly potted and displaying rows of white dots and vertical stripes
applied to neck, the shoulder and compressed body visible beneath
a dark brown glaze also covering the four clay loops applied to the
shoulder (large crack and one loop repaired).
9 3/4in (24.8cm) high

US$500 - 700

For a recent study tracing this group of trade jars to Burma, see
Brigitte Borell, ‘A True Martaban Jar: A Burmese Ceramic Jar in the
Ethnological Museum in Heidelberg, Germany,’ Artibus Asiae, VOL.
LXXIV, No.2, 2014, pp. 257-297, especially p. 273, fig. 1 (Heidelberg
jar); and p. 275, fig. 8 (jar recovered from the Witte Leeuw, 1613) and
fig. 9 (jar recovered from the Nossa Senhora dos Martires, 1606).