Eleven goldweights · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3052840
Price
EUR 700plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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