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THB19th C. African Benin Edo Brass Female Attendant
Lot 155b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
West 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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#151285Repaired 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.Condition
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