Encadrement de miroir · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048922
Christophe Rolley, Bagneux, France
Description
wood, camwood powder, missing part, incised number “270726069932”
The frame is carved with snake and loop motif. The masked face of “eshu” is on the back. The areas filled with fine linear engravings. At the bottom are two whimsical figures with oversized hands and triangular heads, each with an eye.
Elaborately decorated domestic utensils were the privilege of the wealthy and the powerful. Like the carved veranda posts and doors that greeted visitors to their homes, the smaller pieces, even a comb or a mirror, were also symbols of social status. Mirrors like this were popular wedding gifts.
L’objet Encadrement de miroir avec l’ID d’objet 3048922 a fait partie de l’enchère 98e vente aux enchères en 26 mars 2022 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 231.
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Littérature comparée
Fagg, William, Yoruba, Sculpture of West Africa, New York 1982, p. 129, plate 38 Witte, Hans, A Closer Look, Berg en Dal 2004, p. 209, cat. 198