Down Cup
Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
ca. 1840
marine mammal ivory, abalone shell
height: 6 ⅛"
width: 2 ¾"
Inventory # N1393
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
PROVENANCE
Beasley Collection, United Kingdom
Miguel Covarrubias Collection, Mexico
John McKillop, Seattle, WA
Jerry Vanderhloouwen, Yakima, WA
PUBLISHED
Bruce Bernstein et al., First American Art, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of American Indian Art, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 212 pg. 212
Wardwell, Allen. Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pg. 117
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 1996, pl. 14
RELATED EXAMPLES
Sotheby's, New York, 4/81, lot 351
La rime et la raison, Editions de la Reunion des musees nationaux, Paris, 1984, #188