African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 15th December 2021
Lot 801
A Songye male power figure
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £6500
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Description
A Songye male power figure
Democratic Republic of the Congo
with inset cowrie shell eyes and with the hands placed on the swollen abdomen,
27.5cm high, set into a wood base, with white painted inventory number 1782.
Provenance
Galerie Ratton-Hourde, Paris.
Exhibited
Galerie Ratton-Hourde, Paris. Magie Noire, June 2009.