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Ok. So, I'll have it checked. Anyone you'd recommend?
@imperialfinegems Thanks for all the info and assessments. Here is another for you from an entirely different source. There are two of these birds. I would say they are a greyish blue color, with some green and creamy whitish tints as well. As you can see they have custom stands. I'm curious to know what you make of them. Thanks! John
Hi Johnshoe,
You have me here. I have no definitive idea based on your pictures. I don't think they are jade nor soapstone. Nor do I think it's agate. One thing springs to mind but I can't remember the name atm as it's a obscure mineral with little value or attention.
Mark
@imperialfinegems Okay interesting. Well, they are a hard stone if that helps to narrow it down. They seem to be closest to grey jade based on pictures I'm checking out, but they definitely have a unique color. I wish my pictures were better because the color didn't come through very well I'm afraid.
@johnshoe That looks like a ptarmigan, a bird found in Canada and commonly eaten by the inuit. It is a modern carving, as older carvings use a different type of soapstone that is generally much darker and less polished. I've never seen figures carved with separate bases, so perhaps carved by a non-inuit Canadian.
I buy/sell inuit carvings, and I'm a longtime birder.
@greeno107 I was thinking they look like pigeons. I hadn't thought of the innuit angle, but that is not a very likely possibility. The estate they come from has nothing innuit but many things older Chinese.
Perhaps black chalcedony. They come in black to greyish black. Similar to onyx. Hardstone on the Mohs scale 7.7
I agree this is a rather modern carving.
It's a thought that the estate didn't know it's possible links to innuit. I certainly wouldn't have known.
Mark
@johnshoe I find people with eclectic taste collect from around the world. It is for this very reason I find great undiscovered Asian art.
For example:
Everyone searches 'chinese' on estatesales.net, so a listing under that tile will garner a lot of attention and competition.
But, a sale that has a title that includes 'African' as a keyword, slides under the radar, but many times a few good Asian pieces can be found hidden among the African objects, misidentified of course.
My little tip for future searches.
Hi greeno107,
Thanks for that tip. I didn't know but then we don't have the estate sales here in Australia like you do in the USA. It's a huge market place compared to us down under.
Alas you will probably now have Johnshoe scouring the upcoming sales etc. Looking for those ominous titles.
Mark
@greeno107 Thanks for the helpful tip! Please keep sharing as many treasure finding trade secrets as you like! I have been thinking that way already, but not specifically searching "african". However I did recently purchase a Chinese wood carving that was labelled "Haitian".
@imperialfinegems LOL! Maybe, but that's fine...I've benefited from so many other peoples' advice. It's only fair to pay it forward.
I've not been to Australia, but I've travelled to South America (Peru) fairly extensively.
Countries with colonial ties can have great antiques, but as is most often the case, you have to follow the money. Those Communities that have a history of wealth, easpecially if the wealth spans into the first half of the 20th c. generally are good grounds for looking for estate sales, auctions, etc.
I'm sure you know that already. Just putting it out there for others to learn.
@imperialfinegems Yes he definitely has me scouring, so hopefully Greeno isn't just trying to send me on a wild goose chase, cuz either way I'm chasing away!
@johnshoe Think 'ethnographic', and many doors will open.
By the way, there is a common thread between Asian art and Inuit art.
Back in the 1930's, Canada was putting the Inuit into reserves, like the USA and native Americans. They were starving as a consequence of not having access to the same hunting and fishing areas.
Along came a gentleman named Jack Houston, who thought that he could help the Inuit by teaching them an art form that could be used for trade. Resources were limited to bones from animals theyve hunted/eaten, and stone.
Jack Houston had studied Japanese woodblock print making, which is a process of carving images on cherry wood planks, inking them, then pressing them onto paper to make the print.
Well, Jack took this idea an taught them to apply the same technique using stone slabs.
Japanese woodblock prints were/are famous for capturing beauty in the depictions of every day life.
Jack encouraged the Inuit to study art and apply global styles to their native art of carvng stone figures as well as prints.
Generally, the Inuit carved small stone keepsakes of animals, but wth Jack's encouragement, they carved larger and more dynmic depictions of people, animlas, and mythological- shamanistic pieces.
Now, Jack Houston died before I even knew what Inuit art was, but I know his son, John Houston, who continues his father's legacy to protectbthe Inuit culture by promoting their art and filming documentaries about their life in the artic.
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