Oceanic Decorative Bowls

mid-20th century Tami Islands Papua new guinea wooden feast bowl Of classic form, each end carved with raised and incised imagery depicting stylized sea cr...

Turned and hand carved five lobe bowl from a single piece of figured monkey pod wood. Hawaii, circa 1950.

A stunning and large antique tribal carved wooden feast bowl originating from Papau New Guinea and dating from the early 20th century. The bowl is hand chip...

Very nicely hand turned bespoke wooden bowl, made from Jarrah Wood originating from Australia. Turned by hand, the bowl has a wonderful thick rim to it, giving a very nice chunky ap...

A very nice organic modern solid New Zealand walnut bowl / centerpiece, circa 1980s. This gorgeous bowl is 12" in diameter and 3" high and in very good condition with no chips or cr...

Wonderful hand produced bowl, made from solid Mallee wood. Originates from Australia. Very nice smooth finished bowl, contrasting to the textured exterior. Signed Bailey to the under...

Wonderful hand turned wooden bowl produced by Terry Baker. Made from Bimble Box, from the Eucalyptus group. Originates from Australia and dates from the 1990s. Beautifully shaped, w...

Vide Poche Rond by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 13 x H 4 cm Materials: Bronze Discard your day at the door. Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind – think ...

Brass Tape Dispenser by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 14 x D 5 x H 7 cm Materials: Brass The brass tape dispenser is a hefty piece of stationery. I...

Hand Made New Zealand Blackwood / hardwood bowl. a 2.5 inch diameter of the outer rim is a remarkable rough hewn edge, while the inside that dips down to be a bowl or deep plate, is ...

Bronze Vide Poche Rond by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 13 x H 4 cm Materials: Bronze Discard your day at the door. Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind – ...

Bronze Vide Poche Square by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 18 x D 18 x H 4 cm Materials: Bronze The Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind, think keys, change and p...

Aboriginal 'dot' pattern studio pottery bowl with gilded highlights - wheel thrown conical shape - hand painted design with mirror black glaze to the outer sides and background - sig...

Bronze Vide Poche Rond XL by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 18 x H 4 cm Materials: Bronze Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind – think keys, change and phon...

Black Travertine Block Big Poche Rond by Henry Wilson Dimensions. W 35 x D 35 x H 7 cm Materials: Black Travertine This sculptural item is handmade i...

Aluminium Vide Poche Square by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 18 x D 18 x H 4 cm Materials: Aluminium Discard your day at the door. Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket i...

Aluminum Vide Poche Rond by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 13 x H 4 cm Materials: Aluminum Discard your day at the door. Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mi...

Polished Aluminium Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 5 x H 30 cm Materials: Aluminium Thoronet dish, shares its' name and arched lines with the Abby in the south o...

Guatemala Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 30 x H 5 cm Materials: Guatemala Marble This sculptural item is handmade in Sydney Australia. Thoronet dish, shares its...

Polished Bronze Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 5 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Thoronet dish, shares its' name and arched lines with the Abby in the south of Franc...

Travertine Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 30 x H 5 cm Materials: Travertine This sculptural item is handmade in Sydney Australia. Thoronet dish, shares its' nam...

Blackened Vide Poche Square by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 18 x D 18 x H 4 cm Materials: Bronze The Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind, think keys, change a...

Aluminum Vide Poche Rond XL by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 18 x 4 cm Materials: Aluminum Your Vide Poche is designed with your loose-pocket items in mind – think keys, change and ph...

Black Travertine Block Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 24 x D 33 x H 6 cm Materials: Black Travertine This sculptural item is handmade in Sydney Australia. Thoronet dis...

Marble Block Big Poche Rond by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 35 x D 35 x H 7 cm Materials: Marble This sculptural item is handmade in Sydney Australia. Each piece is manufactured in n...

Blackened Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 5 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze (Blackened) Thoronet dish, shares its' name and arched lines with the Abby in the south of...

Guatemala Thoronet Dish by Henry Wilson Dimensions: W 20 x D 30 x H 5 cm Materials: Guatemala Marble This sculptural item is handmade in Sydney Australia. Thoronet dish, shares its...

One-of-a-kind hand turned wood bowl, hand made from Hawaiian milo wood, by Big Island wood craftsman Joseph Mathieu (American, b.20th Century). M...

Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...

Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity. In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters. Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonisation. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001). The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...

Broached monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity. In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters. Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonisation. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001). The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...

Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenous myths, including post-colonial myths and precolonial dreaming stories, and non-indigenous Australian myths, including the bush legend, ANZAC tradition and convict legend, focus on the historical role that the race of authorship has played in building the nation. However, a contemporary understanding of Australian history acknowledges the contribution of both Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in forging the nation, and the national identity which accompanies it. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusive national myths, perhaps Australians should adopt a national mythology that acknowledges this inclusive understanding of Australian history, a mythology that unites Australians of many backgrounds under a shared Australian identity. In his book on Australia’s Folklore of Fear, Robert Holden explores pre-colonial ideas of Australia as a Great Southern Land – an imaginary landmass conjured up to counterbalance the continents in the northern hemisphere, as far removed as possible from Britain, the center of the Christian world (Holden, 2001). Holden speaks of Australia as an imaginary world, occupied by unimaginable creatures and monsters. Holden is commenting in part on the mythical creatures that originated in both British and Aboriginal Australian folklore and were shared by the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal inhabitants of Sydney during the early years of colonization. Stories of the yahoo, a creature that resembled a slender man, with long white straight hair, extraordinarily long arms and great talons (Unknown 1842), captured the imaginations of the new British settlers, and soon a fear of the yahoo became a common ground between Aboriginal people and British settlers. is fear of a gruesome and vicious creature gained its potency from the folkloric tales that were used to substantiate its existence. These tales were suitably vague, their lack of detail attributed to the fierce nature of these creatures and the assumption that no one had survived an encounter (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001). The yahoo “became one of the very few Aboriginal legends to be embraced by the Europeans” (Holden, Thomas et al. 2001, p16), providing a catalyst for conversation between individuals from these two culturally disparate societies and forming some personal links between these communities. Could creature myths like the yahoo once again form the foundation of a united national...

Broached Monsters by Trent Jansen The vast majority of mainstream Australian mythology commonly used as a foundation for Australian identity is culturally exclusive. Both Indigenou...