Standing ancestor figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3039164
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 158
French Private Collection
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, slightly encrusted in some areas, elaborate carved coiffure, fine grooved with a long neck lobe, unusual skin scarification marks in horizontal rows on belly and back, slightly dam., missing part (back of the base), fine cracks, abrasion of paint, metal plate;
a comparable work carved by the same artist has been published in 1914
The object Standing ancestor figure with the object ID 3039164 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 213.
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Comparing literature
Labouret, Henri, Notes contributatives à l‘étude du peuple Baoulé, II, Revue d‘Ethnographie et de Sociologie, 1914, No. 5-6