Edinburgh's Smoking Maori Chieftainess

November 23 2016

Image of Edinburgh's Smoking Maori Chieftainess

Picture: Lyon & Turnbull

Another picture that caught my eye in tomorrow's Lyon & Turnbull sale was the above picture by J F Goldie, of a Maori chietaness called Te Hei smoking a pipe. The estimate is £50k-£80k. Yesterday in New Zealand another Goldie sold for NZ$265k, about £150k.

Update - it made £203k!

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