Zemanek-Münster

Male twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila area, Igbomina tribe · ID: 3036973

sold EUR 1,000
Provenance
Galerie Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany
Günther & Ursula Hartmann, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 35 cm
H: 13.8 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, indigo blue pigment, strong encrustations with “osun” (camwood powder), three strings of miniature glass beads, tall figure, high towering crested hairdo with pointed ear flaps, filed incisors, upper part of the body and shoulders coated with linear scarifications, traces of abrasion (above all at the nose), some cracks in the mass the figure is rubbed with


The object Male twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3036973 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 345 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 297, ill. 192


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