Female twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Offa · ID: 3043232
sold
EUR 300
Provenance
Private Collection, Berlin, GermanySize
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, black paint, camwood powder, glass beads, seeds, metal tag pupils, rare type: face and body built of geometrical forms, unusual: broad beak-like mouth, richly adorned, rep. (breakages at the base fixed by metal clamps), cracks
The object Female twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3043232 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 325 achieved a sales price of EUR 300.
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Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 600