A Yoruba house post

£4,000 - £6,000

A Yoruba house post
Nigeria
carved a central standing female figure wearing a wrap around striped cloth and a neck amulet resting on her exposed breasts, and holding the ends of her waist sash, the rest with two pierced interlaced cylinders and stepped conical knops to the top, with polychrome decoration,
154cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance
John-Paul Raad Collection, London.