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USA Domestic: 12/14 for Standard; 12/23 for Express; International: 12/7 for Standard; 12/19 for ExpressWest Africa, Benin, Edo people, ca. 1890 to 1930 CE. A beautiful hollow-cast brass figure of a female attendant figure standing atop broad feet and delineated legs. The woman wears knee-length trousers around her waist while bearing her pendulous breasts on either side of intersecting baldric straps, and a cylindrical medallion is worn tightly around her neck. Her enlarged head features heavy-lidded, almond-shaped eyes, a slender nose with flared nostrils, puffy lips centered between rounded cheeks, and cupped ears, all beneath a simple coiffure. Traces of red and orange are visible around the dark-brown earthen pigment and suggest that this figure was at one time painted with vivid colors. Size: 3.1" W x 13.2" H (7.9 cm x 33.5 cm); 13.4" H (34 cm) on included custom stand.
For a stylistically similar example of a male attendant, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1977.187.35.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private New York, USA collection
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Condition
Repaired from multiple large pieces, with restoration in areas of head, chest, arms, and lower body, with minor resurfacing over new material and break lines. Abrasions and nicks to body, arms, and head, with light encrustations, a few stable fissures, and fading to original pigment. Nice earthen deposits and patina throughout.