Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Area of Igbomina · ID: 3041779
sold
EUR 6,000
Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 17 June 1991, lot 113Ernst-Olof Siré, Forchheim, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 November 2009, lot 450
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
Size
H: 30 cm
H: 11.8 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown shiny patina, incrustation with camwood powder in some areas, indigo blue pigment, high towering body with straight arms and hands held to the thighs, elaborate carved facial features, artificial crown-like coiffure, elaborate details: harness, scarifications on the back and islamic amulet “tirah”, slightly dam., cracks (left side of the head and body, coiffure);
gorgeous work of a master carver. For comparable figures of the same workshop, if not of the same hand, see: Stoll, Munich, 1980, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, ill. 194.
Publications
AHDRC: 0106687