Senufo Seated Figure Ivory Coast

Wood - 26.5 cm

Provenance:

Acquired from Mme…

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Senufo Seated Figure

Ivory Coast Wood - 26.5 cm Provenance: Acquired from Mme de Monbrison during the 5th Biennale des Antiquaires in 1974. Important private collection, Belgium

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Senufo Seated Figure

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Estim. 1 200 - 1 500 EUR

Weaving roll holder. Baule, Ivory Coast. H 18cm. Carved with a bird sitting on the weaving roll and decorated with decorative, white-filled notches. Exhibited and published! Exhibited in: Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of the Ivory Coast , Palais Stutterheim, Erlangen, 2001. illustrated in: K.-F. Schaedler, Die Weberei in Afrika südlich der Sahara / Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara (1988) p.240; ders., Africana (1988) cover; ders., Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur (1994) p. 385; ders., Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of Ivory Coast (2001) pp.100-101. Tears to the front and sides of the body of the scroll. Provenance: ex coll. Samir Borro, Abidjan, acquired in the 1970s; ex Christie's New York, November 13, 1985, lot 41; ex coll. Rainer Linnhoff, Munich 2012.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

AN IVORY AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID WOOD SITAR

A Senufo Kpelie mask from the Ivory Coast, 20th century Carved, painted and richly engraved double face mask of the Senufo. The two symmetrical faces each decorated with three scarification marks and crowned by a common serrated comb. Each with a larger perforation for the fastening cord along the perforated rim. On a black presentation stand. Length o.S. 30 cm. Condition: II

Estim. 130 - 180 EUR

A SET OF TEN AMERICAN STERLING SILVER COASTERS, by S. Kirk & Son, with concentric pleated pattern, marked 'sterling' and 'S. Kirk & Son' 7.5 cm diam, combined weight 324 grams Provenance: From The Private Collection of the Late Mrs Henry T Ford II

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