Yoruba, Nigeria: a beautiful ‘mother and child figure’. Style: Abeokuta.
A charming figure of a mother, who sits on a finely executed stool, holds her child on her knee and breast-feeds it. The high, round crested coiffure of the mother, originally blue-coloured (with ‘bluing’), indicates the style from the region of the town Abeokuta. She also displays typical tribal decorative scars on her face, bangles, a necklace of blue glass beads as well as a belt of red glass beads. A small loss to the head of the child and two minor cracks to the plinth. Otherwise no damage. Good, shiny patina.
Height: 24 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Christopher Huet Collection, Paris; currently: Austrian private collection.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
06.04.2017 - 15:00
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Yoruba, Nigeria: a beautiful ‘mother and child figure’. Style: Abeokuta.
A charming figure of a mother, who sits on a finely executed stool, holds her child on her knee and breast-feeds it. The high, round crested coiffure of the mother, originally blue-coloured (with ‘bluing’), indicates the style from the region of the town Abeokuta. She also displays typical tribal decorative scars on her face, bangles, a necklace of blue glass beads as well as a belt of red glass beads. A small loss to the head of the child and two minor cracks to the plinth. Otherwise no damage. Good, shiny patina.
Height: 24 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Christopher Huet Collection, Paris; currently: Austrian private collection.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Asta: | Tribal Art |
| Tipo d'asta: | Asta in sala |
| Data: | 06.04.2017 - 15:00 |
| Luogo dell'asta: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
| Esposizione: | 01.04. - 06.04.2017 |