Oracle bowl "agere ifa" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3037631
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Provenance
Franz Fürutter, Trieste, ItalySize
H: 18,5 cm
H: 7.3 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, small remains of black and red paint, in form of a double bowl (rare!), rising from a disc-shaped base, two accompanying figures, a smaller female one and a larger male, carved with jacket in european style, holding a beaded necklace in the left hand, slightly dam., minor missing parts, traces of insect caused damage (plate)
The object Oracle bowl “agere ifa” with the object ID 3037631 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 365.
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Comparing literature
Eisenhofer, Stefan (Hg.), Kulte, Künstler, Könige in Afrika, Linz 1997, p. 196, ill. III/1.