Comb ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3041617

Description

wood, middle brown patina, blackened in parts, eight teeth, surmounted by an anthropomorphic head with open-worked headgear, carved with a necklace with cross pendant, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, base;
because of certain style characteristics present comb can be attributed to the same artist like a comb from the William Brill Collcetion that was offered at Sotheby’s New York (lot 148) in 2006. For a further closely related example formerly in the Schindler Collection see Cole and Ross (1977: 52, figure 89)

The object Comb with the object ID 3041617 was part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction on March 4, 2017. The object with the lot number 232 achieved a sales price of EUR 8,500 with an asking price of EUR 1,500.

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Comparing literature

Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 52, ill. 89