"Anthropomorph Pendant Batéba Sitting Seated Lobi Culture, Ivory Coast"
ANTHROPOMORPHIC PENDANT Batébase seated, hands placed on the navel and pastilleted chest. His diamond-shaped face is slightly tilted towards the sky. A formerly broken suspension ring is placed on its left side.Lobi culture, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Burkina Faso
19th century or earlier
Copper alloy H.: 13.6; L.: 3.3 cm
(old accident)
Bibliography:
A similar example is reproduced in the work West Africa Bronzes and other alloys by André Blandin, p.94. – photograph by P. Ravenhill, 1981.
No. 195 of the exhibition-sale “Bronzes, monumental miniatures”.
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