Sceptre "ipawo ase" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3035258
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)Size
H: 35 cm
H: 13.8 inch
Description
brass, dark patina, fork-shaped ending and surmounting human face framed by small eyelets, where originally small bells were attached, clapper missing, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion
The object Sceptre “ipawo ase” with the object ID 3035258 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 276 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.
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Comparing literature
Witte, Hans, Earth and the Ancestors, Ogboni Iconography, Amsterdam 1988, p. 154 f.