Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3038285
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Provenance
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, FranceSize
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch
Description
wood, rich reddish brown patina, indigo blue pigment, flat facial plane with T-shaped arranged eyes and nose, enclosed by a beard in two bulges and crowned by oval horns with a massive third horn in the middle, raised scarification marks distributed over the face, slightly dam., minor missing parts (left eye), crack (right face half), min. abrasion of paint, base
The object Portrait mask “ndoma” of the “mblo” group with the object ID 3038285 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 171.
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