Goldweight: baboon · Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3042523
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Private Collection, Paris, FranceSize
H: 5 cm
H: 2.0 inch
Description
brass, rep. (right foreleg), slight traces of corrosion;
monkeys are very rare images to be found among goldweights.
The object Goldweight: baboon with the object ID 3042523 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 278 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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