Tribal Art & Antiquities - 20th September 2017

Lot 369

A Yoruba offering bowl School of Olowe of Ise

Estimate £5,000 - £6,000

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Description

A Yoruba offering bowl

School of Olowe of Ise, Efon-Alaaye, Eketi, Nigeria

wood with traces of Reckitt's blue and white kaolin, with a kneeling woman with a high coiffure and a child strapped to her back, with her hands on an oval bowl with a central bird support and a male and female supporting the ends,

42.5cm high.

Provenance

Ian Auld, London.