Processional group: Chief accompanied by his entourage ·  Bénin, Fon · ID: 3038059

Description

33 brass figures, attachment partly made from wood, on wooden plate rising from brass feet, large figure of the chief in gorgeous vestment and with a long pipe in the centre, sitting on a hammock, fixed to a long wooden bar supported by especially high towering figures, four warriors to the front, followed by banner carrying figures and a variegated mixture of male and female figures, some of them carrying fans or dishes, others stools, chests or amphoras, musicians with horns, gongs or drums inbetween, small traces of corrosion (figures), stained greyish-brown patina, cracks (wooden plate), in display case from acrylic glass;
uniform figures with slender bodies and tube-like curved limbs, but exuberantly varied in posture and endowment. Planes with delicately hammered and incised decor.