Deformation mask · Nigeria, Yoruba/Ibibio · ID: 3036006
sold
EUR 2,500
Provenance
Noble and Jean Endicott, New York, USASize
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch
Description
wood, slightly encrusted patina, circular eyes lying deep in their sockets, pock bumps in the area of the forehead and the cheeks, pierced around the rim (partly missing), rest. (breakage on the upper rim), slight traces of abrasion, base
Comparing literature
Klever, Ulrich, Bruckmann's Handbuch der afrikanischen Kunst, München 1975, ill. 56