A Dogon seated female figure

A Dogon seated female figure

Mali

with a crested coiffure and horizontal crescent ears, the shaped eyes with circle recesses to a flat triangular nose and pursed lips, the protruding breasts above a banded linear abdomen and open arms to her sides, on an open tripod stool with her toes over the top edge,

36.8cm high.

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.

cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, (acc.no. 1978.412.478), Sotheby's, Paris, Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie, 12 December 2018, lot 189.