Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 44
A Yoruba Eshu figure
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £191
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Description
A Yoruba Eshu figure
Nigeria
the head with a pierced fin coiffure and a tied vessel to the back, on a part carved block body, the underside with white collection number ES 8 6246.H,
17cm high,
a Yoruba male Ibeji figure fragment, 24cm high, three Eshu staffs, with kneeling figures, 28cm high, a Shango wand, 22cm high, a matched pair of Yoruba kneeling figures, the female with cowrie shell strands, 35cm high, a Yoruba heddle pulley, 16cm high, a Dogon maternity figure, 17cm high, a Yoruba kneeling female figure with a concave abdomen, 24cm high, a Yoruba female figure, 11.2cm high, and two Nigerian ladles, 55cm and 60cm long. (14)
Provenance
Zbyszek Plocki Collection, London.