Ashanti, Ghana: a standing male figure with movable arms.
A charming, male, standing figure, carved from hard wood and originally dyed black. Fashioned in typical Ashanti style. With broad, but flat head, small coffee bean eyes and a thin, relatively long neck, composed in individual rings, and decorated with red and one white glass bead chain. The special quality of this figure is that both thin, free-hanging arms are movable. Otherwise this Ashanti figure displays colour scuffing due to age on exposed areas, but no damage, and a good patina.
Height: 43 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Thierry Fixe Collection, Paris; currently: Austrian private collection.
Expert: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
06.04.2017 - 15:00
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EUR 1.000,-
Ashanti, Ghana: a standing male figure with movable arms.
A charming, male, standing figure, carved from hard wood and originally dyed black. Fashioned in typical Ashanti style. With broad, but flat head, small coffee bean eyes and a thin, relatively long neck, composed in individual rings, and decorated with red and one white glass bead chain. The special quality of this figure is that both thin, free-hanging arms are movable. Otherwise this Ashanti figure displays colour scuffing due to age on exposed areas, but no damage, and a good patina.
Height: 43 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Thierry Fixe Collection, Paris; currently: Austrian private collection.
Expert: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Aukce: | Mimoevropské a domorodé umění |
| Typ aukce: | Salónní aukce |
| Datum: | 06.04.2017 - 15:00 |
| Místo konání aukce: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
| Prohlídka: | 01.04. - 06.04.2017 |