Beautiful spoon
South Africa, Zulu/Tsonga
Vendu
10 000 €
Provenance
Philippe Ratton, Paris, FranceTaille
L: 54 cm
L: 21.3 inch
Description
wood, oval deepened bowl, carved with a long handle in openwork design: intricately carved in shape of five spirally screwed struts, knob in form of an anthropomorphic head in pierced oval frame, decorative change of colours from middle brown to blackened sections in pokerwork, slightly dam. (rim of the bowl), crack (knob), rep. (bowl), base