Discount : Reliquary Kota Boho-na-bwete Gabon Congo

Old price 700 Guardian statue of the reliquary among the Kota, beautiful patina and beautiful work of dinanderie, height with base 56 cm, good general condition, some wear and discreet attack of xylophage. This statue has a fairly simple shape corresponding to the subgroup of the Shamaye, I like its serious face with very expressive features, the very rounded forehead, the eyes in slices of bone or ivory, the beautiful patina on the copper and especially on the back, crusty and dark, with beautiful indigenous restorations, estimated dating 1950/60. Interesting information, according to Louis Perrois for the Fang the sacred part is the bones, the statues are secondary and were often exchanged for Western trinkets of which they were very fond, the fetish it was enough to recommend one to the sculptor.