Fragment of a female figure · Sierra Leone, Limba · ID: 3041267
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
Description
wood, encrusted brown patina, head with bulging forehead and prominent eyezone deepened in a horizontal line, surmounted by projecting shock of hair, rising from a long neck carved with rings, incised scarification marks on forehead, breast and back, thighs wrapped with rattan, both shanks missing, slightly dam. (chin), traces of insect caused damage, metal base
The object Fragment of a female figure with the object ID 3041267 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 121 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600.
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Comparing literature
Meneghini, Mario, Collecting African Art in Liberia and Neighboring Countries 1963 - 1989, o.O. 2006, p. 175, ill. 165