Zemanek-Münster

Two stools

Burkina Faso, Lobi
sold EUR 350

Description

wood, light brown patina, black paint, a) carved with a janus-head with both faces depicted in profile, crowned by a disc-shaped flattened coiffure, l: 56 cm, h: 29,5 cm; b) the smaller stool carved with just one head with a projecting crested coiffure, l: 49 cm, h: 33,5 cm, both of the stools slightly dam., cracks (coiffure, legs of the stools);
possibly a work of the sculptor Sikire Kambire, Gaoua (compare P. Meyer, 1981, ill. 189) or his surroundings.


Comparing literature

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 141, ill. 189

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