Zoomorphic figure "gbekre" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3037065
Description
wood, matt black patina, wearing a loincloth saturated with mass, broad teeth-revealing mouth, holding a bowl and a dagger in his hands, sacrificial traces on the head, collection number backside at the base “1392”, min. dam., cracks (left side of the head), patina partly encrusted, partly peeled off, revealing the middle brown wood underneath
The object Zoomorphic figure “gbekre” with the object ID 3037065 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 192 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.
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