Beautiful female shrine figure with offering bowl and child · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3046284

Name: Beautiful female shrine figure with offering bowl and child
SKU: 3046284
Price: 5000 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 5,000

Provenance

collected in situ in the late 1960s
Willem E. Geyskens, Diest, Belgium
Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium (1971)
Charles M. Plotz, New York, USA

Size

H: 92 cm

H: 36.2 inch

Description

wood, pigments, base

This figure was made for a shrine dedicated to one of the Yoruba deities “orisa” - possibly “Shango”, who is associated with the power of thunderstorms, warriors, and kings.

The object Beautiful female shrine figure with offering bowl and child with the object ID 3046284 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 212 achieved a sales price of EUR 5,000.

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