Eleven goldweights · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3052840
Starting price
EUR 700
Estimated price
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf, Germany (a, f)Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain (c, h, i)
Arts Afrique, Lomé, Togo (d)
Peter Kohler, Ascona, Switzerland (g, j)
Gero Schmitz-Lehanne, Krefeld (1969-1976) (a-k)
Description
copper alloy (bronze, brass),
This finely assembled group comprises eleven cast brass goldweights representing a variety of utilitarian and symbolic forms traditionally used in the Akan gold-dust economy.
a) game board (“oware”), l: 5.2 cm
b) oil lamp, h: 3.1 cm
c) double bell, h: 4.9 cm
d) earth hoe, l: 6 cm
e) hoe and knife, l: 6.8 cm
f) drum (hollow-cast), h: 3.1 cm
g) drum with trophies, h: 2 cm
h) drum with handle, h: 1.8 cm
i) horn with jaw ornament and loop, l: 4.8 cm
j) blowing horn, l: 6.4 cm
k) horn, l: 7.3 cm