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Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine "gbene", Nigéria, Koro, Taille: H: 45,5 cm, ID: 3040659
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Lot 279
83rd Tribal Art Auction

Figural drinking receptacle for palm wine "gbene" ·  Nigéria, Koro · ID: 3040659

Vendu 3 000 €
Provenance
Yves & Ewa Develon, Paris, France
Sotheby’s, Paris, 5 December 2006, lot 185

Description

wood, partly encrusted brown patina, in shape of a stylized standing figure, trunk in shape of a deeply hollowed oval receptacle, legs and head originally provided with abrus seeds (now missing), min. dam., crack (head), slight traces of abrasion, base

Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 307

Publications

Galerie Flak (ed.), Nigeria, Masters of Movement, Paris 2012, p. 58
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