Figure commémorative ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3048164

Description

terracotta / ceramic, clay encrustations, fragmentary, rest., base

According to early reports, it was the custom to wash and repaint (with black paint) these figures and then to carry them in solemn processions at annually recurring commemorative ceremonies.

The rest of the time, according to Sieber, the figures are said to have been kept in special rooms or at shrines. The majority, however, seem to have been placed in or near cemeteries.

L’objet Figure commémorative avec l’ID d’objet 3048164 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 97e Vente aux enchères dans 6 novembre 2021 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 205 a atteint un prix de vente de 1 000 €.

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Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Erde und Erz, München 1997, p. 175 f. Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 125

Publications

A Selected Portfolio of African Sculpture in the McNemar Collection, New York 1966

Remarques

This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).