Lot: 172

93rd Tribal Art Auction

Seated female figure

Ghana, Fante

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Harrie Heinemans, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
H: 13.4 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, polychrome painted, miniature glass beads, separately carved arms, base

Two figures by the same artist are shown in Cole & Ross (1977), p. 179, fig. 357. Another was auctioned at Zemanek-Münster on 29 June 2019 (lot 149).

This figure was most probably part of a grouping of figures on a support for one of the "ntan" or "ompe" drums that form the popular drum ensembles among the Fante.


Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 179