Tribal Art - 8th January 2013

Lot 793

An Ashanti wood doll

Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £2400

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Description

An Ashanti wood doll, with a curved disc head slanting backwards with stylised coiffure to the reverse, with a ribbed neck and without arms, white inventory number 2, 13¾in (35cm) high, on a later stand. (2)

Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased November 1962.