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

Lot 248

A Yoruba maternity figure

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000

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Description

A Yoruba maternity figure
Nigeria
standing with arms and hands in front, wearing a skirt, necklace and wide head band over a ribbed coiffure, with facial scarifications, exposed breasts and with a bound child to her back, looking to the left, with neck amulets and with the left hand clasping the mother's head band sash, with Reckitts Blue and white pigment,
61cm high, on a base.

Provenance
John-Paul Raad Collection, London.