JEWELLERY ANTIQUE & ART Tuesday, 4 August 2020 - 9:30 AM start
A hand cut slab of pounamu (nephrite)
Estimate: $5,000 - $6,000
Lot Details
showing unusual irregular cutting striations and undulations possibly from handheld wire cutting rather than blade cutting. The same technique evident to both faces. 395 x 210 x 20mm. Y20568 registered. From the Collection of Hannah Martha Dillon, née Carkeek (1881-1963). See lot online for an excerpt from ‘On the Working of Greenstone’. Transactions of the of the New Zealand Institute.
Y CERT 20568.pdf (1 mb)
