Trumpet
Nigeria, Eket
not available anymore
Provenance
Merton Simpson, New York, USAAlfred L. Scheinberg, New York, USA
Joseph & Doris Gerofsky, New York, USA
Size
L: 62,5 cm
L: 24.6 inch
Description
ivory, shiny black patina, the corpus of the broad ending was abraded as thin as a piece of cardboard, the bell mouth is 7,5 cm in diametre, round mouth piece, bowl-shaped narrow ending carved with two mask faces, slightly dam., minor missing parts (mouth piece, rim of the bell mouth), cracks, abrasion of paint, block-like base