Zemanek-Münster

Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"

Nigeria, Yoruba, Ekiti
sold EUR 2,400
Provenance
Christie’s New York, 11 May 1983, lot 255
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
Size
H: 24,5 cm
H: 9.6 inch

Description

wood, middle brown patina, blackish blue paint at the coiffure, necklace with ancient glass beads, partly in “millefiori” design, well-formed bodies, regular clear cut facial featues, fine carving as a whole, lancet-shaped tribal marks on the cheeks, bulging eye apples, the pupils of one of the figures provided with metal tags (one missing), slightly dam., cracks, missing part (ear)


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