Fertility doll "akua ba" · Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3042602
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Emil Storrer, Zurich, SwitzerlandSize
H: 30,5 cm
H: 12.0 inch
Description
wood, softly luminous brown patina, characteristic form, the long neck carved with rings corresponding to the Akans ideals of beauty, drilled holes, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint, base
The object Fertility doll “akua ba” with the object ID 3042602 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 279 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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