Standing female figure, 19th century · Madagascar, Sakalava · ID: 3042305
sold
EUR 2,200
Provenance
Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, GermanySize
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch
Description
wood, matt black patina, prominent face with short nose and bicoloured eyes, coiffure with inserted wooden pegs (partly missing/resp. dam.), body veiled/wrapped in beige-coloured cotton cloth and fine plaited grass fibre skirt, slightly dam., rep. (right foot tip), base
Comparing literature
Goy, Bertrand, Arts anciens de Madagascar, Milan 2015, p. 175, ill. 108 Jack, Anthony, Africa, Relics of the Colonial Era, London 1991 (Cover)
Publications
AHDRC: 0142348