Tribal Art & Antiquities - 1st March 2017
Lot 379
Four Yoruba Ibeji figures Nigeria wood
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £800
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Description
Four Yoruba Ibeji figures
Nigeria
wood, including a female with carved zig-zags on her breasts and wearing beads, another with a washed face and with glass and coconut beads and brass bangles, another female and a male wearing a cloth gown,
24.5cm the highest. (4)
Provenance
The David Morris Collection.
Female with beads - Christie's, London, 1986
Worn face - Tunbridge Wells, 1993
Other two - Ian Auld, 1985 / 86.