Lot: 326

88e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Couple de jumeaux "ere ibeji"

Nigéria, Yoruba, Ijebu, Ijebu Ode

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria, collected in situ (1950s/60s)
Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
H: 22,5 cm (female) - 23,5 cm (male) Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

wood, middle brown (washing) patina, traces of camwood powder and indigo blue pigment, glass beads, prominent faces with curved nose and extremely receding chin, individual coiffures, lancet-shaped scarification marks, drilled pupils (metal tags missing), ear holes, slightly dam., cracks


Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 255