Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine "gbene" · Nigeria, Koro · ID: 3040659
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Yves & Ewa Develon, Paris, FranceSotheby’s, Paris, 5 December 2006, lot 185
Size
H: 45,5 cm
H: 17.9 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted brown patina, in shape of a stylized standing figure, trunk in shape of a deeply hollowed oval receptacle, legs and head originally provided with abrus seeds (now missing), min. dam., crack (head), slight traces of abrasion, base
The object Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine “gbene” with the object ID 3040659 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 279 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.
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Comparing literature
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 307
Publications
Galerie Flak (ed.), Nigeria, Masters of Movement, Paris 2012, p. 58