Male/female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Egba · ID: 3037829

Description

wood, beautiful rich reddish brown patina, shiny in some areas, black paint, indigo blue pigment, encrustations with “osun” (camwood powder), each figure with two strings of glass beads and drilled pupils (metal tags missing), pleasing faces, long arms, incised scarification marks on the faces, slightly dam., crack on the left side of the males head and body (partly spread with mass), the facial features rubbed off through feeding procedures

The object Male/female pair of twin figures “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3037829 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 328 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.

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