Anthropomorphic spoon
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure
sold
EUR 10,000
Provenance
Private Collection, Paris, FranceMarceau Rivière / Galerie Sao, Paris, France
Galerie Éric Hertault, Paris, France
Size
H: 18,3 cm
H: 7.2 inch
Description
wood, pigments, small crack (handle), base
Extremely fine carving of outstanding quality.
The handle end of the small spoon is carved with a finely carved mask representing a ram “bla”. Such elaborately decorated spoons were always owned by important and wealthy men in earlier times.
A spoon with a very similar stylistic and delicacy of workmanship, which
could possibly have come from the same workshop, depicted in Homberger, Zurich 1990, p. 49, fig. 23.
In this canon of forms, there is a spoon from the Félix Fénéon
collection, which was already collected before 1935 (AHDRC 0062299).
Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Löffel in der Kunst Afrikas, Zürich 1990, p. 49, ill. 49 Sweeney (James Johnson), "African Sculpture", Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,1970: fig.54 (AHDRC 0062299)Publications
Galerie Éric Hertault: "Yaouré. Visages, du Sacré", Paris, 2019, p. 70-75AHDRC: 0164093