Rare terracotta figure · Chad, Sao · ID: 3045635
Description
fired clay / ceramic, rest., custom mount (M: 73 x 40 cm)
A comparable figure shown in Lebeuf (1977) as ill. 61 and on the cover (AHDRC 0012228).
Cultures living in the Lake Chad region of what is today Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad have created figures in terracotta for nearly 2000 years, but it was largely in the 12-13th centuries that they began producing large numbers of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures which appear to have been used in burial contexts.
The object Rare terracotta figure with the object ID 3045635 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 111 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,250.
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Expertise
Thermoluminescence Report, R. Kotalla, Haigerloch, 11 February 1988
Comparing literature
Lebeuf, Annie & Jean-Paul, Les arts des Sao, Paris 1977, p. 145, ill. 61 and cover
Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrika, Maske und Skulptur, Olten 1989, ill. 20