Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities - 20th February 2024
Lot 197
A Baule kpan mask
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2394
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Description
A Baule kpan mask
Ivory Coast
carved with a pair of curved horns and ears, arched relief decoration to the forehead and keloids to the temples, the open mouth with filed teeth, linear carving to the surround, with painted decoration,
36cm high.
Provenance
Old French Colonial Collection, collected in situ, and thence by descent.
Private Collection, France.