An Ashanti goldweight

An Ashanti goldweight

Ghana

brass, cast from a crabs claw,

3.5cm high, on a perspex mount,

eleven Ashanti goldweights including six snails on a stick, a geometric cross, animals and birds, and a Senufo ring with a sheathed dagger, a brass pipe bowl, an Ivory Coast brass currency bracelet, an Ashanti nut shell medallion carved a figure holding a comb, and a brass stencil print block. (17)

Provenance

Gimpel Fils, London, acquired in the 1960s.