Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief.

Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief. - Mimoevropské a domorodé umění

A shorter, four-legged stool of the Mossi made of hard, light-coloured wood. With a head carved out from the same piece of wood, sporting a crested coiffure on a long neck used as a grip. The surface of the seat has fine geometrical lines incised in it as well as old, subsequently darkened decorative brass nails. A small loss to the edge of the seat’s surface. Otherwise no damage. Very good, old usage patina. Height: c. 9 cm (seat), 14.5 cm (head on the front); width: 16 cm; length: 37 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance:
Kegel-Konietzko Collection, Hamburg; currently: German Private Collection.

Lit.:
'Man and his Vision. The Traditional Wood Sculpture of Burkina Faso' by Esther A. Dagan, ill. 126–133.

Expert: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at

Vyvolávací cena:
EUR 400,-

Mossi, Burkina Faso: a four-legged stool, with a carved head, fine decorative nails and relief.


A shorter, four-legged stool of the Mossi made of hard, light-coloured wood. With a head carved out from the same piece of wood, sporting a crested coiffure on a long neck used as a grip. The surface of the seat has fine geometrical lines incised in it as well as old, subsequently darkened decorative brass nails. A small loss to the edge of the seat’s surface. Otherwise no damage. Very good, old usage patina. Height: c. 9 cm (seat), 14.5 cm (head on the front); width: 16 cm; length: 37 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)

Provenance:
Kegel-Konietzko Collection, Hamburg; currently: German Private Collection.

Lit.:
'Man and his Vision. The Traditional Wood Sculpture of Burkina Faso' by Esther A. Dagan, ill. 126–133.

Expert: Erwin Melchardt Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465

erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at


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