Trumpet · Gabon, Fang/Tsogho · ID: 3039183
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Joop Schafthuizen (Dutch), lived in France with the famous writer Gerard ReveChristie’s, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 89
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
German Private Collection
Size
L: 47 cm
L: 18.5 inch
Description
ivory, reddish brown and black patina, the head piece carved with four mask faces, two of them highly stylized with pierced nose, diamond-shaped mouth piece, the bell-mouth cut hexagonal, carved ornaments at the lower rim, painted ornaments in the area of the mouth piece, slightly dam., minor missing parts (disc-shaped head piece), fine crack, base;
Radin and Sweeney locate a stylistically comparable trumpet with the Fang (compare GVR 0054283).
Comparing literature
Radin (Paul) & Sweeney (James Johnson), African Folktales and Sculpture, New York, 1952, ill.147