Lot: 331

88e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Paire de jumelles "ere ibeji"

Nigéria, Yoruba, Ilorin

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Private Collection, Berlin, Germany H: 24/24,5 cm Vendu

wood, rich brown patina, camwood powder, black paint, indigo blue pigment, drilled pupils, neck lobe, islamic triangle, notched ornaments, facial features rubbed off, slightly dam., cracks, rep. (vertical crack across left face half and coiffure/filled with wood and mass)


Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 256, ill. 142