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This is the rating and price for Beautiful Female Mask Gu With Animal Horns - Côte D'Ivoire, Guro



Description : wood, bicolored (horns), pigments, tiny repair at the nose bridge, base Gu is always carved according to the image of a beautiful woman - uanya iri nya. She is the wife of zamble (and his brother zauli). Despite her human like face, the gu mask being is considered a creature of the forest. It is quite possible that the addition of horns to the beautiful female face was intended to emphasize the non-village, forest-bound, and therefore sacred aspect of gu. A stylistically comparable mask from the Karl-Ferdinand Schadler Collection of African Art, illustrated in Fischer / Homberger 1985, Fig. 125 (AHDRC 0060625). Continent: Africa
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Estimate (low-high) : 12000 EUR-25000 EUR It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 139
Title : Beautiful Female Mask Gu With Animal Horns - Côte D'Ivoire, Guro
Size : H: 33,5 cm, H: 13,2 inch
Provenance : Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
Literature : Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Die Kunst der Guro, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1985, ill. 125
Condition report : See description
Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer, Würzburg, DE It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : 91 Tribal Art Auction
Sale date : 09 Mar 2019 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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