Fire spitter mask "wanjugo" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3036258
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Emil Storrer, Zurich, SwitzerlandEdith Hafter, Solothurn, Switzerland
Size
L: 82,5 cm
L: 32.5 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, painted with polychrome dots, composed of different animals, crowned by a small vessel, a human half figure and a kalao bird, rep. (breakage at the tusk), missing parts, cracks, traces of abrasion
The object Fire spitter mask “wanjugo” with the object ID 3036258 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 209 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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Comparing literature
Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 57