Trumpet · Gabon · ID: 3034835
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Belgian CollectionSize
H: 91 cm
H: 35.8 inch
Description
ivory, honey brown patina, the corpus of the broad ending was abraded as thin as a piece of cardboard, the bell mouth is 11 cm in diameter, the narrow ending crowned by a human head, min. dam., fine cracks through age, small missing part in the upper area, metal socle
The object Trumpet with the object ID 3034835 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 339 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.
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Comparing literature
Falgayrettes-Leveau, Christine, Gabon présence des esprits, Paris 2006, p. 168 f.