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THBFine Early 20th C. Punu Painted Wood Female Mask
Lot 157a
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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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May 23, 2019
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2019-05-23 10:00:00
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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Central Africa, Gabon, Upper Ngoume River area, Punu peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely hand-carved wooden mask depicting the head of a stylized female with a broad collar wrapped around her neck, and the mask is carved out along the verso for wear. The beautiful visage is composed of bulging ovoid eyes with carved horizontal slits beneath thin, high-arching brows, a broad triangular nose with flared nostrils, slender lips protruding outward above a pointed chin, perky ears, and a protruding forehead, all beneath a finely-incised, characteristically-ridged coiffure with a vertical shaft carved through the center. The face is painted with thick white pigment and accentuated with black on the brows and red on the lips, and the unpainted areas exhibit fine patina. Size: 4.5" W x 11.1" H (11.4 cm x 28.2 cm); 15.2" H (38.6 cm) on included custom stand.
For a strikingly-similar example, please see: Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste. "The Tribal Arts of Africa: Surveying Africa's Artistic Geography." Thames & Hudson, New York, 2000, p. 116, fig. 5.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Patrick Morgan collection, Paris, France
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#146495Minor nicks and abrasions to face, peripheries, coiffure, and verso, with fading and chipping to areas of original pigmentation, a few stable hairline fissures, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Light earthen deposits, traces of original pigmentation, and patina throughout.Condition
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