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LOTE 304:
A WOOD, COPPER AND BRASS RELIQUARY FIGURE, MBULU NGULU Gabon, Kotha 63 cm ...
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800
Precio estimado :
€1 500 - €2 000
Comisión de la casa de subasta: 26%
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A WOOD, COPPER AND BRASS RELIQUARY FIGURE, MBULU NGULU
Gabon, Kotha
63 cm high
Provenance: Italian private collection.
This kind of sculpture, with accentuated stylized anthropomorphic characters, was usually placed on the top of a container with a lid in which the bones of a high-ranking deceased were kept.
The name Kota identifies different ethnic groups located in Gabon, united by some artistic concepts, including those exemplified by this figure of a reliquary.
* The reliquary is accompanied by scientific analyzes of the wood which confirm a dating to the first half of the twentieth century.
