Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 373
A Owo altar ring fragment Nigeria bronze
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £480
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Description
A Owo altar ring fragment
Nigeria
bronze, cast with the head of a ruler with vertical striations to the face, wearing a conical headdress and holding a knife and a baton, flanked either side by a bowl and a head with differing facial striations and with a rope gag through the mouth, with a crescent above, 19th / 20th century,
26cm wide,
and a Nigerian bronze altar ring fragment, cast with decapitated male and female figures with vultures pecking at their necks, a head, a chameleon, a turtle, a scorpion and four spheroid objects, 20th century, 22cm diameter. (2)