12-01-201812-01-2018
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
3185BBoston
December 1, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Female Yoruba Ibeji Figure

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$154$125
Auction: American Indian & Ethnographic Arts - 3185BLocation: BostonDate / Time: December 01, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Female Yoruba Ibeji Figure, standing on a circular base, with raised feet, legs set apart with the arms detached from the body and hands on thighs, sloping shoulders beneath the oval face (well worn),blue pigmented high coiffure, wearing strands of beads around waist, wrists, and neck, brown patina, ht. 10 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts.
Estimate $400-600


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