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Baule, Ivory Coast: A prestige or honorific staff with a head as a handle grip.

Lot No. 41

Baule, Ivory Coast: A prestige or honorific staff with a head as a handle grip.


Baule, Ivory Coast: A prestige or honorific staff with a head as a handle grip. - Tribal Art

Rod of a dignitary, made of light-coloured wood in a single piece. The grip is carved in the form of a head in typical Baule style. With finely lined hairstyle, wide eyebrow arches above drooping eyelids and a sunken glance. With scarification marks on both temples, as well as with an open mouth. Beneath the head is carved an octagonal piece with alternating, geometric chip-carving ornament. Below this follow eight ‘lentils’, shown crosswise (in the form of seed pods of the bread-fruit tree?) down to the lower, pointed end of the rod. Carved from a single piece. A prestige or honorific staff with some old cracks and a fine, ‘soft’ worn patina as a result of protracted use. L: 86 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance: Swiss Private Collection.

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at

02.11.2015 - 14:00

Starting bid:
EUR 500.-

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Baule, Ivory Coast: A prestige or honorific staff with a head as a handle grip.


Rod of a dignitary, made of light-coloured wood in a single piece. The grip is carved in the form of a head in typical Baule style. With finely lined hairstyle, wide eyebrow arches above drooping eyelids and a sunken glance. With scarification marks on both temples, as well as with an open mouth. Beneath the head is carved an octagonal piece with alternating, geometric chip-carving ornament. Below this follow eight ‘lentils’, shown crosswise (in the form of seed pods of the bread-fruit tree?) down to the lower, pointed end of the rod. Carved from a single piece. A prestige or honorific staff with some old cracks and a fine, ‘soft’ worn patina as a result of protracted use. L: 86 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance: Swiss Private Collection.

Specialist: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at

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Auction: Tribal Art
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 02.11.2015 - 14:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 28.10. - 02.11.2015

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