Maori Wall Plate with Portrait & Carving Design

A Crown Lynn Wharetana wall plate (plaque) 'Puhi Urutapu…
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A Crown Lynn Wharetana wall plate (plaque) 'Puhi Urutapu Tamahine', brown glaze with mild relief Maori portrait framed by a stylised Maori carving. Impressed number to the reverse '1023', diameter 25.5 cm. Note: The original catalogue refers to this plaque as 'Representing a Virginal Young Maori aristocrat who due to a strong sense of racial and tribal pride and purity, were subject to the utmost seclusion before marriage. This young lady has the marriage tattoo on her chin and wears the traditional hei tiki greenstone charm and a headband of woven flax in Taniko design'.

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