Zemanek-Münster

Female twin figure "ere ibeji" ·  Nigeria, Yoruba, Ila-Orangun · ID: 3036143

Vendu 1 400 €

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, camwood powder, fine carved face with laughing mouth, bipartite high towering coiffure with diadem, strictly symmetrical arranged body, carved with elaborate necklace and waist belt as well as islamic triangles on breast and back, drilled pupils, nailheads missing, slightly dam. (base), missing parts (tip of the coiffure, eye and breast right hand side);
from the “master of the smiling face”.


Littérature comparée

Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 293


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