Trumpet
Gabon, Fang/Tsogho
Vendu
2 000 €
Provenance
Joop Schafthuizen (Dutch), lived in France with the famous writer Gerard ReveChristie’s, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 89
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany
German Private Collection
Taille
L: 47 cm
L: 18.5 inch
Description
ivory, reddish brown and black patina, the head piece carved with four mask faces, two of them highly stylized with pierced nose, diamond-shaped mouth piece, the bell-mouth cut hexagonal, carved ornaments at the lower rim, painted ornaments in the area of the mouth piece, slightly dam., minor missing parts (disc-shaped head piece), fine crack, base;
Radin and Sweeney locate a stylistically comparable trumpet with the Fang (compare GVR 0054283).