Bell · Nigeria, Eket · ID: 3017561
sold
EUR 360
Provenance
Lacrasonge, Paris, FranceHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1986)
Size
H: 52 cm
H: 20.5 inch
Description
wood, matt stained patina, flat corpus with geometrical ornamentation, a long neck, crowned by a disc-shaped projection with a tribe-typical face in the center, dam., missing pieces, insect caused damage, traces of usage and abrasion, fissures
The object Bell with the object ID 3017561 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 135 achieved a sales price of EUR 360.
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Comparing literature
Neyt, Francois, L' Art Eket, Paris 1979, ill. 52