Tribal Art & Antiquities - 1st March 2017
Lot 265
A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji Nigeria wood with quadripartite and arched coiffure with Reckitt's...
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £1000
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Description
A pair of Yoruba female Ibeji
Nigeria
wood with quadripartite and arched coiffure with Reckitt's blue, with large eyes with lashes, tripartite nose and bulging lips, scarifications, wearing glass and shell beads, on circular bases with linear incisions,
26.5cm high. (2)
Provenance
Collected in the Nigeria during the 1950's.
cf. Zemanek-Munster, 31st October 2015 for a male and female pair by the same carver.