Fan Handle
Marquesas Islands
Ke’e Tahi’i Fan Handle
19th century
Carved wood
Height: 32 cm – 12 ½ in.
Provenance
Ex collection Lady Brassey, presumably collected during a voyage aboard the “Sunbeam” (1876-1883)
Ex collection Hastings Museum, UK
Ex collection James T. Hooper, Arundel, n°428
Ex collection Wayne Heathcote, London
Ex Christie’s London, 3-4 July 1990, lot 114
Ex private collection, New York
Ex private collection, UK
Literature
« Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas, The James Hooper Collection »,
Steven Phelps, Hutchinson Publications, London, 1976, p. 102
Fans were transmitted from generation to generation, and were considered to be inalienable family treasures.
This fan handle with a historic pedigree is composed of two sets of tiki standing back to back, surmounting upside-down figures with elongated faces.