Lot: 240

91e vente aux enchères Tribal Art

Figure jumelle "ere ibeji"

Nigéria, Yoruba, Oyo, style Igbuke

Provenance Taille Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Lore Kegel & Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (collected in Oyo, 1956) H: 29,5 cm Vendu

wood, camwood powder, coconut discs, glass beads, drilled pupils, beautiful washing patina

In the style of the "Igbuke" family of carvers, the typical marks on the abdomen and the grooved ornamentation around the base are easily recognizable.


Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 161, ill. 57