Trumpet · Sierra Leone, Mende · ID: 3037777
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Provenance
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, GermanySize
L: 65 cm
L: 25.6 inch
Description
ivory, honey brown patina, two metal sheet applications, oval mouthpiece, carved with an anthropomorphic head, min. dam., cracks through age, slight traces of abrasion
The object Trumpet with the object ID 3037777 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 139.
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Comparing literature
Lamp, Frederick, African Art of the West Atlantic Coast, New York 1979, p. 13, ill. 1