Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
· Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ila Orangun
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ID: 3046432
sold
EUR 900
Provenance
Lauritz Sunde, Copenhagen, Denmark (1965/66)Poul Mørk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 November 2016, Lot 64
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Size
H: 29,5 cm
H: 11.6 inch
Description
wood, pigments, redwood/ palmoil paste, glass beads, rep., base
Particularly sympathetic “ibeji” type, from the “master of the smiling face”. An “ibeji” pair of this master was auctioned at Zemanek-Münster on 27 June 2015.
Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 548Publications
AHDRC: 0136097