Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ekiti · ID: 3033313
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany
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)
The object Female pair of twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3033313 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 157 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,400.
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