An Attie Female Figure, seated on a stool posted on a circular, fragmentary base, flat feet, short legs, prominent buttocks, supporting an elongated cylindrical torso with a stylized navel surrounded with metalplates, conical protruding breasts, a thick and tall neck, an oval head with fine fascial features, an elongated small nose framed by slit-eyes in oval sockets with remnants of white pigments, oxidised metalplates at the forehead and around the sockets, the upraising arms ending in stylized hands, supporting a stool-like object; extremly smooth natural, brownish patina with remains of kaolin at the base, partly at the face and at the object on top.
J. Camp Associates, Treasures from the Ivory Coast, 1977: number 64, New York, Tribal Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue
1.600 - 2.000,- Euro
Height:
44 cm
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