Wood, kava residue diameter 15 7/8in (40.5cm) Provenance Col. Donald Stanley Marshall, a 30-year Army veteran who saw action in World War II and Vietnam and an anthropologist who studied the languages and cultures of Polynesia; author of the book Ra'ivavae (1961) Bonhams, San Francisco, 9 Feb 2014, Lot 132 French Private Collection Franklin Family Collection, Portland, Oregon Of deeply hollowed form with four feet; rich, honey-brown patina and traces of kava residue on the interior.