Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Ebrié
sold
EUR 7,000
Provenance
Antoine Ferrari de La Salle, Abidjan (1975)Christie’s Paris, 4 Decembre 2009, lot 24
Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium Private Collection
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted brown patina, strings of coloured glass beads around legs and hips, carrying a ritual vessel on the head, neck plait, min. dam., fine cracks, on wooden base;
the Ebrié are an Akan group, living at the eastern Ivory Coast. Only few sculptures are preserved, for they soon had been exposed to the influence of christianity and synchretic religions.