Standing female figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Lagoon Region, Ebrie (Kyaman) / Akye (Attié) / Gwa, Master of the Triangular Nose · ID: 3049761
Description
wood, rest., base
For comparable works by the “Master of the triangular nose”, see AHDRC 0071032 and AHDRC 0134689 and more. Overall, however, the works attributed to this master seem to us to come rather from different hands.
This female figure carries a bowl (with the curled body of a snake) on her head. Blackmun Visonà suspects that these figures were used by traditional healers to convey messages to the spirit world. The bowl would emphasise the figure’s role as a messenger of the spirits (Blackmun Visona in: Art of Côte d’ Ivoire, Vol II, 1993, p. 171, ill. 289).
The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3049761 was last part of the auction Sale 100 at April 15, 2023 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 45.
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Comparing literature
Barbier, Jean Paul (ed.), Art of Côte d' Ivoire, Vol II, Genève 1993, p. 171, ill. 289 Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 77 (Master of the Triangular Nose)