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Goldweight: pangolin (armadillo) ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036259

Vendu 500 €
Provenance
Jürgen & Gisela Büse, Rheinbreitbach, Germany (collected in situ, 1973-75)

Description

brass, patina, scale armour indicated, naturalistic appeal;
of all animals the pangolin comes in for the most divergent sculptural treatments both as the quiet looking searcher of the undergrowth, and alternatively, as if to emphasize its other name, producing a spectacular display of erectile scales. In either mode a reputation for inedibility accompanies it, expressed in the following proverb: “Whatever you do don’t serve me the meat of the pangolin”.


Littérature comparée

Phillips, Tom, African Goldweights, London 2010, p. 146


Publications

Büse, J.E., Akan-Goldgewichte: Eine Kultur in Bronze, in: Sammler-Journal 2 (1979), p. 82

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