Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila-Orangun · ID: 3036143
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, camwood powder, fine carved face with laughing mouth, bipartite high towering coiffure with diadem, strictly symmetrical arranged body, carved with elaborate necklace and waist belt as well as islamic triangles on breast and back, drilled pupils, nailheads missing, slightly dam. (base), missing parts (tip of the coiffure, eye and breast right hand side);
from the “master of the smiling face”.
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3036143 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 489 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,400.
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Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 293