Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025

Lot 26

A Yoruba hand mirror

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £318

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Description

A Yoruba hand mirror
Nigeria
with carved decoration and a head finial, the back with an integral C shape handle, with remains of pigment,
27.6cm high,
a Yoruba circular mirror, with a carved fornicating couple surmount, painted and incised at the top of the frame 22 SILES, and the back incised 10.11.47, with painted collection number MG 6242/F., 22cm high, and a Yoruba male Ibeji figure, with a glass bead necklace, legs missing, 23cm high, on a stand. (5)

Provenance
Zbyszek Plocki Collection, London.