Miniature mask · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3039804
sold
EUR 1,400
Provenance
Lempertz, Cologne, 26 April 2003, lot 87Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Size
H: 5,5 cm
H: 2.2 inch
Description
brass, cast as a trophy head, elaborate coiffure consisting of numerous plug-like projections, chin beard arranged in seven lobes, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion, base
The object Miniature mask with the object ID 3039804 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 128 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,400.
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Comparing literature
Vogel, Susan Mullin, Baule, African Art - Western Eyes, New York 1997, p. 279
Publications
Rielau, Hans Dietrich, Afrikanische Miniaturen, Norderstedt 2011, p. 85