Mask "gelede" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3037157
sold
EUR 1,000
Size
L: 39 cm
L: 15.4 inch
Description
wood, reddish brown patina, black paint, elaborate hairdo with plaited lobes and a bipartite disc-shaped crest, filed incisors, tribal marks, slightly dam., rep. (lower lip), crack and missing part backside fixed with metal clamp, base
The object Mask “gelede” with the object ID 3037157 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 336 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.
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Expertise
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 01.05.2003, Munich