05-05-201805-05-2018
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Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
3099BBoston
May 5, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Three Akan Goldweights

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$185$150
Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 3099BLocation: BostonDate / Time: May 05, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Three Akan Goldweights, brass, antelopes with tubular bodies and long horns that touch the tail, ht. 1 to 1 1/2 in.

Provenance: Newman Collection, New Jersey; two purchased from J.J. Klejman, New York, October 1968; the larger of the three from Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 1981, Lot 194.

Exhibitions: Asante Goldweights, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, February-April 1988.
Estimate $300-500


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