Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for E 1907.592: 'Paddle' and [added later:] 'of light wood with flat oval blade painted in the centre with a star pattern in black and red within a marginal band showing a bird motive, the cross-handle is of dumb bell form'.

Event Date 4/5/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Hyams Coll. Bought at the Stevens Sale, 1907, with funds from Professor A.A. Bevan's donation to the Accessions Fund.
Event Date 4/5/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
'Exhibited: On display (Left grid, No. 7), in Gifts & Discoveries, LKS Gallery, between 25 May 2012 and 18 February 2013, R.Hand 4/5/2012'.
Event Date 19/2/2013
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: On loan to 2 Temple Place, London, 30 January - 27 April 2014, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 26 May- 27 July 2014, as part of the UCM exhibition, Discoveries: Art, Science and Imagination. Returned 4 August 2014.
Event Date 6/8/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation ()
CON.2013.152 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: an old label glued to the bottom of the blade reads [printed:] ‘Lot 80’. An old label with cut corner and internal blue border reads: ‘Paddle / Ysabel Is.’ In brown ink. An old museum label glued to the shaft reads: ‘E. 1907.592. / Paddle / (Ysabel) / Solomon Is. / (Bt Steven’s, Lond., 1907) / * Professor Bevan, 1907’. ‘Z 7041’ inscribed in black ink on the upper part of the shaft.
Event Date 19/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for Z 7041: 'Paddle of light wood incised in blade in black with rather unusual design. The handle and hand grasp are plain with round knob at each end of the latter'.
Event Date 19/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
In accession register: '[paddle] of unusual form, of light wood, with flat oval blade painted in the centre with a star pattern in black and red, within a marginal band showing a bird motif, the cross-handle is of a dumb-bell form'.
Event Date 19/3/2016
Author: Lucie Carreau