Tribal Art & Antiquities - 1st March 2017

Lot 267

A pair of Yoruba male and female Ibeji Nigeria wood with remains of Reckitt's blue to the...

Estimate £350 - £450 | Hammer £550

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Description

A pair of Yoruba male and female Ibeji

Nigeria

wood with remains of Reckitt's blue to the quadripartite lobed coiffure, the worn faces with pierced ears, both wearing beads,

27.5cm and 25.2cm high. (2)

Provenance

Collected in the Nigeria during the 1950's.