Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head · Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3041897
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
Ernst Winizki, Zurich, SwitzerlandPoulain le Fur, Paris, 18 October 1996
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Size
H: 16 cm
H: 6.3 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, fork-shaped corpus, hole for suspension, complete with crossbar and bobbin (nut), min. dam., cracks, slight traces of usage, base
The object Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head with the object ID 3041897 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 192 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Die Kunst der Guro, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1985, p. 241 ff.
Publications
AHDRC: 0134011