Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 22nd February 2023
Lot 93
A Yoruba gelede mask
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £200
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Description
A Yoruba gelede mask
Nigeria
with a high forehead, scroll top ears, navette eyes with square apertures, pierced nostrils and open mouth with full lips and a small chin, with vertical cheek scarifications, with a channeled and pierced edge for attachment, with a red pigment,
16.5cm high, on a stand. (2)
Provenance
Loudmer, Paris, Arts Primitifs, 9 December 1989, lot 224.
Romy Rey Collection, London.