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Description : **Originally Listed At $600** Western Africa, Ivory Coast, Baule peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure known as a 'Blolo Bla,' a spirit wife or dream lover who visits the living in their dreams to serve as an oracle who can predict the future. The figure stands nude atop a hemispherical plinth and holds both arms tightly against her waist and beneath pendulous breasts and plateaued shoulders. Her puffy face bears petite eyes, a slender nose, and a smiling mouth, all beneath a finely incised coiffure with a protruding top knot. The figure is covered in dark brown pigment, and the plinth is covered in yellow pigment. Size: 2.625 W x 9.875 H (6.7 cm x 25.1 cm), 10.1 H (25.7 cm) on included custom stand. Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection, ex-Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance), we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia or Germany, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm. Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping. #157575
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Estimations(basse-haute) : 500 USD-750 USD 🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.

À propos du lot n° 267
Titre : 20Th C. African Baule Wood Female Blolo Bla Figure
Dimensions : 2.625 W x 9
Condition report : Chips to plinth, limbs, and back of coiffure, with fading to pigment, light encrustations, and some light abrasions, otherwise intact and very good. Nice remains of pigment throughout.
Artemis Gallery, Salle de vente , Louisville, US 🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
Titre de la vente : End-of-Year Clearance Ancient / Ethnographic
Date de la vente : 29/12/2021 🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
Référence de l'enchère : Live Sale

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