Auction 104 After sale
Zemanek-Münster

Mixed lot of gold weights, pendants and rings

Ghana, Akan
Price EUR 1,500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Bruno Heimberg (1933-2023), Munich, Germany

Description

16 pcs., brass, thirteen gold weights: a) six swords (l: 8.2 cm - 11.4 cm), b) four gold weights with bird motifs (h: 3.3 cm - 4.2 cm), c) one horn (l: 4.5 cm), d) one hoe (l: 4.5 cm); e) one fish (l: 5.4 cm); f) pendant in the shape of a composite creature of fish and chameleon (w: 6.8 cm)

in addition:
g) chameleon ring, Côte d’Ivoire, Senufo, d: 2.3 cm; h) ring with antelope head, Bobo, Burkina Faso, d: 2 cm


Publications

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 173, ill. 239 top (f)

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