Figure masculine de jumeau "ere ibeji" · Nigéria, Yoruba, frontière Igbomina/ Ilorin · ID: 3042981
Vendu
1 200 €
Description
wood, brown patina, black paint, encrustations with camwood powder, striking large hands and feet, the latter carved with elaborate sandals, massive necklace with islamic triangle “tirah” on breast and back, unusual: lowered head and eyelids, facial features rubbed off, pierced pupils, diamond-shaped deepened sign of the carver on the underside of the base, slightly dam. (crest).
For an “ibeji” of the same master/workshopf see G. Stoll, 1980, ill. 161.
Littérature comparée
Stoll, Gert, Ibeji, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 272, ill. 161