Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 404
A pair of Tsonga / Zulu staff finials Mozambique / South Africa carved as a woman and a man
Estimate £500 - £800 | Hammer £900
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Description
A pair of Tsonga / Zulu staff finials
Mozambique / South Africa
carved as a woman and a man, both with their hands on their abdomens, the woman with a cone coiffure and wearing a short skirt, the man wearing loin cloths, both with scorched highlights,
32.5cm and 29.2cm high, mounted on conical bases. (2)
Provenance
Joseph Gordon, Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, died 1969, thence by descent.