Mirror ·  Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3032541

Description

wood, brown patina, yellow and red ochre, mirror glass, metal fitting, two mirrors in a square wooden frame, decorated with bird sculptures, two human heads on the upper rim, slightly dam., abrasion, rep., the small doors originally locking the mirrors now missing (remains of metal fitting);
mirrors in small decorated boxes are popular with the Yoruba as wedding gifts. In the Yoruba iconography birds often symbolize witches. In this case, however, they seem to be watching over the domestic bliss of the couple that received the mirror as a wedding gift.

The object Mirror with the object ID 3032541 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 396.

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Comparing literature

Witte, Hans, A Closer Look, Berg en Dal 2004, p. 147