Seated figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3035018

Description

wood, partly encrusted brown patina, string of white glass beads with metal pendant, without specific sexual characteristics, raised skin scarifications, elaborate hairdo, tonsure-like shaved with a semicircular bulging tuft and neck lobe at the back of the head, min. dam., cracks (on the right side of head and body) spread with mass, missing parts through insect caused damage (at the bottom of the base), wooden socle

The object Seated figure with the object ID 3035018 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 162 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,200.

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