Tribal Art - 8th January 2013
Lot 810
A Yoruba kneeling offering figure
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £500
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Description
A Yoruba kneeling offering figure, with a child on her back and it's hands on her breasts, with beads, white inventory number 1, 13½in (34.2cm) high.
Provenance: Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Purchased June 1953. Notes in stock book state 'Ayasse, Ilorin, confiscated by E.C.Pickwood, 1922.'