Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine "gbene"
Nigeria, Koro
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