Standing female protective figure "bateba phuwe" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3035779
sold
EUR 180
Provenance
Klaus-Jochen Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ)Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
Size
H: 32 cm
H: 12.6 inch
Description
wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, both hands resting underneath the bulging abdomen, broad eyes with narrow slits, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts and traces of weathering at both feet (above all on the right), rep. (left leg), base;
the unusual and prominent form of the nose shows the figure to be a work of the “master of the hook-nosed figures”.
Comparing literature
Katsouros, Floros, Lobi, Der Meister der Hakennasenfiguren, Hannover 2012