Female bowl bearer ·  Togo, Ewe · ID: 3036684

Description

wood, matt brown patina, black paint, strong body with angular arms, prominent triangular scarifications on the belly, further ones on the breast, back, neck and face, the essential accentuated by black paint (facial features, tattoos, female sexual characteristics), carved with bracelets and belt, slightly dam., cracks, old places of repair at the base/right foot (aglet, some wooden pieces reinserted);
a comparable female bowl bearer figure can be found in the Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin (Krieger 1978, I: Ill. 35).

The object Female bowl bearer with the object ID 3036684 was part of the auction 76th tribal art auction on March 22, 2014. The object with the lot number 420 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,800 with an asking price of EUR 3,000.

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Comparing literature

Krieger, Kurt, Westafrikanische Plastik, Bd. I, Berlin 1978, pl. 35