Very rare figural stool · Burkina Faso, Kurumba · ID: 3047174
sold
EUR 1,100
Provenance
Old British Collection (coll. in the 1960s/ 70s)Size
H: 44 cm
D: 26 cm
H: 17.3 inch
D: 10.2 inch
Description
wood, pigments, rest., cracks
This stool captivates by the simple elegance of the stylized caryatid figures with their striking faces and linear engravings. A stylistically comparable figure shown in Roy, 2007, fig. 508.
Comparing literature
Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 508