Oracle bowl "agere ifa" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3036546
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Rolf Miehler, Munich, GermanyInge Arendts, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
Description
wood, polychrome paint, stand in form of two chicken holding a snake in their beaks, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion;
the motif of bird and snake symbolizes the confrontation between obvious danger (snake) and insidiousness.
Comparing literature
Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 193, ill. III/1.1