Zemanek-Münster

Deformation mask

Nigeria, Yoruba/Ibibio
sold EUR 2,500
Provenance
Noble and Jean Endicott, New York, USA
Size
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

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