Lot: 43

Benefit Auction "Flood Disaster"

Very rare figural stool

Burkina Faso, Kurumba

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Old British Collection (coll. in the 1960s/ 70s) H: 17.3 inch;
D: 10.2 inch 		sold

wood, pigments, rest., cracks


This stool captivates by the simple elegance of the stylized caryatid figures with their striking faces and linear engravings. A stylistically comparable figure shown in Roy, 2007, fig. 508.


Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 508
Very rare figural stool
Very rare figural stool
Very rare figural stool
Very rare figural stool
Very rare figural stool
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