Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief.
Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief.
A shorter, four-legged stool of the Mossi made of hard, light-coloured wood. With a head carved out from the same piece of wood, sporting a crested coiffure on a long neck used as a grip. The surface of the seat has fine geometrical lines incised in it as well as old, subsequently darkened decorative brass nails. A small loss to the edge of the seat’s surface. Otherwise no damage. Very good, old usage patina. Height: c. 9 cm (seat), 14.5 cm (head on the front); width: 16 cm; length: 37 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance:
Kegel-Konietzko Collection, Hamburg; currently: German Private Collection.
Lit.:
'Man and his Vision. The Traditional Wood Sculpture of Burkina Faso' by Esther A. Dagan, ill. 126–133.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
09.06.2016 - 17:00
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EUR 400.-
Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief.
A shorter, four-legged stool of the Mossi made of hard, light-coloured wood. With a head carved out from the same piece of wood, sporting a crested coiffure on a long neck used as a grip. The surface of the seat has fine geometrical lines incised in it as well as old, subsequently darkened decorative brass nails. A small loss to the edge of the seat’s surface. Otherwise no damage. Very good, old usage patina. Height: c. 9 cm (seat), 14.5 cm (head on the front); width: 16 cm; length: 37 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance:
Kegel-Konietzko Collection, Hamburg; currently: German Private Collection.
Lit.:
'Man and his Vision. The Traditional Wood Sculpture of Burkina Faso' by Esther A. Dagan, ill. 126–133.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art - Africa |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 09.06.2016 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 04.06. - 09.06.2016 |