Standing male figure with gun, around 1910/1920 · Liberia, Dan · ID: 3042485

Name: Standing male figure with gun, around 1910/1920
SKU: 3042485
Price: 900 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 900

Provenance

Private Collection

Size

H: 13 cm

H: 5.1 inch

Description

brass, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion;
by unknown Dan artist (compare E. Fischer, 1976, p. 188, ill. 183/184).
These genre objects are called “za mä” - “brass person”. These objects which are characterized by naturalistic form, never had any religious significance, they were used by chieftains as pure decoration.

The object Standing male figure with gun, around 1910/1920 with the object ID 3042485 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 165 achieved a sales price of EUR 900.

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