Zemanek-Münster

Fertility doll ·  Ghana, Fante · ID: 3035153

sold EUR 500
Provenance
August Flick, Cologne, Germany
Size
H: 37,5 cm
H: 14.8 inch

Description

wood, blotched brown patina, kaolin, two strings with white miniature glass beads, the armless trunk atypically carved with legs, the fine grooved neck supporting a board-shaped lengthened head, abundantly adorned with incised ornaments on the back, slightly dam., missing part (right foot), paint rubbed off;
such figures were worn by young women wrapped into their skirts, in order to get pregnant and give birth to a healthy and beautiful child.


The object Fertility doll with the object ID 3035153 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 198 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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