Goldweight: Beetle ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3038201

Description

brass with patina, cast from nature, the legs added, min. dam.;
a beetle, already perfectly formed by nature, replaced a wax model. After the intense heat had turned the beetle into dust, its ashes would be shaken and blown away through the channel left by the melted sprue. Since the beetle, with its variety of species, is the most common example this technique has become referred to as the “lost beetle” process.

The object Goldweight: Beetle with the object ID 3038201 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 225.

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Comparing literature

Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 39