Standing female figure with bowl

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Description

copper alloy, bronze, brass, carrying a child on the back, supporting a round flat bowl with flap lid in openwork design on the head, crowned by a rooster, patina, small traces of corrosion, minor missing parts in the cast, crack;
as a shrine sculpture, the mother and child with an offering bowl is well known throughout Yorubaland. The bowl could have been used as oil lamp.

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Littérature comparée

Beeh, Wolfgang (HG), Mitgebracht von fremden Völkern, Ausstellungskatalog Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1990, ill. 54

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