Auction 104 Antiques & Works of Art, Silver & Jewellery

507

"Omo" bell, Yoruba Ijebu


Estimate

9.000 - 13.000


Session 2

15 April 2021



Description

Bronze
Anthropomorphic head
Ijebu, Yoruba people, Nigeria

Height: 9 cm


Category

Objects


Additional Information

Provenance:
Maurice Bonnefoy, Paris;
Christie's, Amsterdam, Tribal Art, 12 September 2002, lot 262.
Exhibited:
Iwa Yoruba, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, 1983, p.11, no.67.
Literature:
W.M. Robbins, N. I. Nooter, "African Art in American Collections", p. 251, fig. 665.



Closed Auction