Horn ·  Gabon, Fang · ID: 3038759

Description

ivory, natural grains, fine aged honey and reddish brown patina, polished, the corpus of the broad ending was abraded as thin as a piece of cardboard, the bell mouth is 4 cm in diameter, the narrow ending with oval opening, crowned by five stylized human faces without facial features, min. dam., missing parts (rim), fine cracks through age

The object Horn with the object ID 3038759 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 388.

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