Trumpet · Gabon, Fang · ID: 3028536
Description
ivory, natural grains, fine aged honey and reddish brown patina, polished, the corpus of the broad ending was abraded as thin as a piece of cardboard, the bell mouth is 4,5 cm in diameter, the narrow ending with oval opening, crowned by five stylized human faces without facial features and a flat headgear, min. dam., small missing parts, cracks through age, wooden base
The object Trumpet with the object ID 3028536 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 352 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.
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Comparing literature
Falgayrettes-Leveau, Christine, Gabon présence des esprits, Paris 2006, p. 168 f.
Notices
This object is subject to CITES. Please note that it can only be sent within the European Union. At the present time export in third countries is prohibited, respectively, export licenses in third countries for objects containing or made of protected materials are only granted under stringent conditions.