Zemanek-Münster
Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779
Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779 - 2/6 Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779 - 3/6 Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779 - 4/6 Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779 - 5/6 Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji", Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina, Taille: H: 30 cm, ID: 3041779 - 6/6
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Lot 45
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Figure féminine de jumeaux "ere ibeji" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba, Ila Orangun, Région d´Igbomina · ID: 3041779

Vendu 6 000 €
Provenance
Sotheby’s London, 17 June 1991, lot 113
Ernst-Olof Siré, Forchheim, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 November 2009, lot 450
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria

Description

wood, reddish brown shiny patina, incrustation with camwood powder in some areas, indigo blue pigment, high towering body with straight arms and hands held to the thighs, elaborate carved facial features, artificial crown-like coiffure, elaborate details: harness, scarifications on the back and islamic amulet “tirah”, slightly dam., cracks (left side of the head and body, coiffure);
gorgeous work of a master carver. For comparable figures of the same workshop, if not of the same hand, see: Stoll, Munich, 1980, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, ill. 194.

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AHDRC: 0106687

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