Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2023
Lot 1371
A Yoruba female shrine figure
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £250
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Description
A Yoruba female shrine figure
Ila-Orangun, Nigeria
kneeling with a high coiffure and a lip plug, holding a child before her and with a copulating couple to the front of the base, flanked by a male figure playing a pipe and a female figure holding a sash around her neck, with red, blue and white painted decoration, including linear designs to the back of the main figure, old repairs,
116cm high.
Provenance
Dr Laurence R. Goldman Collection.
Christie's, London, Important Tribal Art, 22 June 1993, lot 118.