Goldweight: Beetle · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3038201
Description
brass with patina, cast from nature, the legs added, min. dam.;
a beetle, already perfectly formed by nature, replaced a wax model. After the intense heat had turned the beetle into dust, its ashes would be shaken and blown away through the channel left by the melted sprue. Since the beetle, with its variety of species, is the most common example this technique has become referred to as the “lost beetle” process.
L’objet Goldweight: Beetle avec l’ID d’objet 3038201 a fait partie de l’enchère 79th Tribal Art Auction en 21 mars 2015 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 225.
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Littérature comparée
Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 39