Senufo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali: A rare, beautiful ladle for millet, with a seated female figure. Carved from a single piece.
Senufo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali: A rare, beautiful ladle for millet, with a seated female figure. Carved from a single piece.
A beer ladle with a rounded ladle bowl and rounded outlet. The short, round handle is crowned with an extremely well worked female figure, who sits on a four-legged stool. The woman wears a bracelet of brass on her right arm. All together carved from a single piece of hard wood and coloured black and brown. A very rare, elaborately decorated object of daily use of the Senufo people, with a visibly old, worn shiny patina and traces of long usage. No damage. H: 26 cm; W: 10 cm (the ladle scoop). First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Senufo' by H.-J. Koloß & Till Föster, Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, figs. 36, 37, 38.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
02.11.2015 - 14:00
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EUR 750.-
Senufo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali: A rare, beautiful ladle for millet, with a seated female figure. Carved from a single piece.
A beer ladle with a rounded ladle bowl and rounded outlet. The short, round handle is crowned with an extremely well worked female figure, who sits on a four-legged stool. The woman wears a bracelet of brass on her right arm. All together carved from a single piece of hard wood and coloured black and brown. A very rare, elaborately decorated object of daily use of the Senufo people, with a visibly old, worn shiny patina and traces of long usage. No damage. H: 26 cm; W: 10 cm (the ladle scoop). First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Senufo' by H.-J. Koloß & Till Föster, Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin, figs. 36, 37, 38.
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 |