Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3041192
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Provenance
Swedish Private Collection (1950’s/1960’s)Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch
Description
wood, softly luminous reddish and dark brown patina, elaborate work of carving with fine grooved coiffure and nearly ornamentally designed facial features, beautiful detail: delicate curved eyebrows, slightly dam., missing parts backside at the rim, cracks at the same place
The object Portrait mask “ndoma” of the “mblo” group with the object ID 3041192 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 188.
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