An Early Priest’s Oil Dish ‘dari ni waiwai nio bete’

Object Description

An Early Priest’s Oil Dish ‘dari ni waiwai nio bete’
Dry surface with fine patina (old losses)
Wood
Fiji
Late 18th / Early 19th Century

SIZE: 6cm high, 44cm wide, 23cm deep – 2⅓ ins high, 17⅓ ins wide, 9 ins deep / 44.5cm high – 17½ ins high (with base)

Object History

Ex Private English collection

Object Literature

cf: for another ‘oil dish’ see Finch and Co no. 100, catalogue no. 4, 2004

Object Details