Handcarved Calabash or Umeke
$7,500.00
Kou wood
18th century
Height 8 3/4" Diameter 10 1/2"
Provenance: Private Collection, Honolulu, HI
Found recently in a Honolulu Thrift Shop as a salad bowl, this is an exceptional example of a late 18th-century umeke. Carved from the nearly extinct kou tree the coloring is superb being cut from the sapwood of the tree. Numerous fine native repairs are present including outstanding examples of kepakepa among others.