"Large Debira Pendant - Gan Culture, Burkina Faso - 19th Century"
Large DEBIRA PENDANT depicting a CHAMELEON with hemmed tail, braided ring and openwork body, animated by two sinuous transverse snakes, oriented upwards, giving rise to a JANUS HEAD.Culture Gan, Burkina Faso
nineteenth century
Copper alloy; H.: 9.8; L.: 15.2 cm
No. 125 of the exhibition-sale “Bronzes, monumental miniatures”.
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