Tribal Art & Antiquities - 21st February 2018
Lot 236
Two Yoruba male Ibeji figures Igbuke
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £550
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Description
Two Yoruba male Ibeji figures
Igbuke, Oyo, Nigeria
wood, with lobed coiffures, one with a gathered braids and drawn down with triangular motifs, blue stain and with facial and body scarifications, wearing glass and sliced nut beads,
30.5cm high,
the other with remains of blue to the coiffure and with similar facial and body scarifications, 31cm high. (2)
Provenance
The Michael and Renate Lancaster collection.
cf. Xavier Richer, Ibeji, 2016. p.94/95 for a female Ibeji with the same coiffure