Pongrass Collections

Pongrass Collections I first started collecting 50 years ago. Since then, I have collected art and artifacts from around the globe.

You can visit my website PongrassCollections.com to view objects in the various collections. This collection was started over the past 50 years from around the globe.

Pointing Bone & Pointing Stick. Bone, Shell, Resin, Sinew, Feathers, Human hair. L. 6.5" & 8". Ex. Tad Dale Collection. ...
05/11/2021

Pointing Bone & Pointing Stick. Bone, Shell, Resin, Sinew, Feathers, Human hair. L. 6.5" & 8". Ex. Tad Dale Collection. 1990 $2200.0

These are very unusual and rare from Broom, West Australia. Generally, "pointing bones were made from the arm bone of a dead man or the fibula of a wallaby, kangaroo or emu, usually from 3 to 8 inches in length the gum encasing the butt end secures a length of human hair to the bone."

cf: The British Antique Dealers'Association.

"Aboriginal medicine men can be divided into two categories, the sorcerers and the healers. Every Australian Aboriginal has recourse to what is known as sorcery by which he can harm an enemy, the medicine men known as ‘Kungara’, the healers, are the only individuals who can counter those influences.

The medicine man is the most powerful person in the community and is ritually sanctioned after undergoing special initiation into their magical craft. The Aborigines tribal name for them means intelligent, powerful and clever men.

Bone pointing, a symbolic or magical way of spearing a victim, is the most powerful, direct and best known method of projectile magic employed by the Aborigines.

The sorcerer turns his back to his victim, stoops down and jerks the pointer at him several times while he mutters incantations. The sorcerer, in using the ‘death pointer’ produces an instantaneous psychic shock, and captures the life-essence of the soul or spirit of the victim.

By a magical and secret rite he can provoke the death of a person from a distance by projecting invisible substances along the string and pointer into his victim’s body."

"Ken Dancer lll" by Kjell Ingman. Hand made art glass. hand made base to match his sculpture. H. 16", base H. 33"Price o...
05/10/2021

"Ken Dancer lll" by Kjell Ingman. Hand made art glass. hand made base to match his sculpture. H. 16", base H. 33"
Price on Request.

"A contagious playfulness and a resolute commitment to narrative, spur Swedish artist Kjell Engman in his search for new avenues of expression in glass.

SINCE 1978, Kjell Engman has been among the designers associated with Kosta Boda. He received his artistic education at Konstfackskolan, the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, between 1973 and 1978. He also attended the Pilchuck Glass School in the US during the summer of 1981. An accomplished draughtsman and a brilliant colourist, these talents have undoubtedly played a large part in broadening his artistic production and gaining international recognition. Engman is also a dedicated and highly productive industrial designer, currently responsible for a fifth of Kosta Boda’s catalogue range. Since 1978 many of his designs have been among perennial Kosta Boda favourites. Attention to detail and a sheer love of the glassmaker’s craft are important factors in his success. Since 1974 he has participated in some 70 exhibitions and solo shows, half of them outside Sweden. In addition to his international exhibition program, he has received numerous public commissions.

Despite such sombre musings, humour, playfulness and joie-de-vivre are characteristic elements of Kjell Engman’s artistry. In 1998–99, he exhibited dancers with massive yet light-footed glass bodies. The colour scale was dark, with shades of red, brown, blue and green. These expressive figures were painstakingly realised in the hot shop, where Engman and master glassblower Tuomo Nieminen work in close cooperation.
‘I tried to capture movement, to use it together with the light to enhance the expressiveness of the dancers,’ he says. ‘They seem to have a rhythmic quality about them.’"

Text by Earnest Reinfeld.

Bark Painting (X-Ray Crocodile), Croker Island, West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.Tree bark, Natural earth...
05/09/2021

Bark Painting (X-Ray Crocodile), Croker Island, West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Tree bark, Natural earth pigments, Collected late 1940's. L. 42.25" x 9.5" $8500.00

I acquired this bark painting on October 27, 1988 from Leo Fleischmann of Galleris Primitif in Sydney, Australia. Attached is a letter of authenticity from the gallery.
"According to Dr. Ron Lambert (Australian Museum in Sydney, Dept. of Anthropology) in the late 1940's, some Malgu and Gunwinggu people on Croker Island stenciled birds, fish, kangaroos and crocodiles on barks and rocks, but only for a very short period, and this technic disappeared as sudden as it came into existence. The reason to dis-continue painting with stencils are open to speculation. Probably there were a few poor hunting seasons which were blamed on the paintings. What-ever, only a few paintings from that period and technic survived.

Dagger (Crocodile Jaw-Eu Karowan) West Irian Jawa. Crocodile jaw, fiber, seeds, cassowary feathers. L. 18.5". Aged cream...
05/09/2021

Dagger (Crocodile Jaw-Eu Karowan) West Irian Jawa. Crocodile jaw, fiber, seeds, cassowary feathers. L. 18.5". Aged creamy patina. Ex. Norman Hurst Collection 1990 $4500.00

This is another example from my New Guinea (Melanesian) collection. It is a rare funerary figure from the Ramu-Keram Riv...
05/06/2021

This is another example from my New Guinea (Melanesian) collection. It is a rare funerary figure from the Ramu-Keram River Delta area. Of fragmented form, the figure with thick legs and buttocks supported by a verticle pole to base, an elongated torso and attenuated arms bent at the elbow with hands raised together to the chest, the tear shaped head pierced around the rim for the attachment of a human skull and terminating in a point. Aged weathered and worn eaten patina. H. 1.45m

This is a piece from my Crystal and Glass collection. It is limited edition hand made dish titled "Meteor" and signed by...
05/04/2021

This is a piece from my Crystal and Glass collection. It is limited edition hand made dish titled "Meteor" and signed by Bertil Vallien a master glassmaker of Kosta Boda. 1998 size, 270mm.

This is a superb example of a porcelain lion from the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD). H. 8.5cm x 9.5cm x 8.8cm. This example w...
04/30/2021

This is a superb example of a porcelain lion from the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD). H. 8.5cm x 9.5cm x 8.8cm. This example was created in a very unusual pose, its leg lifted up and held in its jaw. The glaze is reminiscent of the style of glazing on objects in the Tang Dynasty period. This is a very rare example of superb Tang Dynasty antiquity.

This is another object from my New Guinea (Melanesian) Collection. It is War Shield (Bapa). Shield of irregular kidney f...
04/30/2021

This is another object from my New Guinea (Melanesian) Collection. It is War Shield (Bapa). Shield of irregular kidney form and carved with a linear motif of irregular cruciform shape with a scroll detail at either end. The center pierced four time for attachments of elaborate braided fiber handles. A fifth woven ring is fitted through an opening near the top on the shield. Heavy black encrusted patina. H. 36" x 19.5". Ex. John and Marsha Friede Collection 2008. Exhibited Private Museum, Xiamen, China 2011, Katy Contemporary Art Museum Katy, Texas, Vertical Sculpture 2014

This piece is from my contemporary American artists collection. This piece is titled "Prayer Stick Series 7" by Barbara ...
04/27/2021

This piece is from my contemporary American artists collection. This piece is titled "Prayer Stick Series 7" by Barbara Kerstetter, Oil on Paper, image size 59cm x 46cm (1997).

This is a painting from my contemporary art collection. It is a mixed media on paper and the image size is 12" x 9". It ...
04/26/2021

This is a painting from my contemporary art collection. It is a mixed media on paper and the image size is 12" x 9". It is untitled by the famous artist Jeannie Miles. She painted this in 1966. Miles was a member of the "Surrealist Group."

This piece is from my Jingdezhen Porcelain collection. The title is "Peasant Child's Music" by Tu Shao Bo. It is 44.5 c...
04/23/2021

This piece is from my Jingdezhen Porcelain collection. The title is "Peasant Child's Music" by Tu Shao Bo. It is 44.5 cm in height. Tu Shao Bo is a Master Ceramist. There are many other porcelains in the collection. You can pursue all the collections at "PongrassCollections.com."

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