Standing female figure with bowl · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3036778
Description
copper alloy, bronze, brass, carrying a child on the back, supporting a round flat bowl with flap lid in openwork design on the head, crowned by a rooster, patina, small traces of corrosion, minor missing parts in the cast, crack;
as a shrine sculpture, the mother and child with an offering bowl is well known throughout Yorubaland. The bowl could have been used as oil lamp.
The object Standing female figure with bowl with the object ID 3036778 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 334 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.
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Comparing literature
Beeh, Wolfgang (HG), Mitgebracht von fremden Völkern, Ausstellungskatalog Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1990, ill. 54