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
Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Die Kunst der Guro, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1985, p. 241 ff.
Publications
AHDRC: 0134011