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Lot 304 - Auction 100

Lot 304

Africa
A WOOD, COPPER AND BRASS RELIQUARY FIGURE, MBULU NGULU

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A WOOD, COPPER AND BRASS RELIQUARY FIGURE, MBULU NGULU


Gabon, Kotha


63 cm high

Provenance: Italian private collection.

This kind of sculpture, with accentuated stylized anthropomorphic characters, was usually placed on the top of a container with a lid in which the bones of a high-ranking deceased were kept.
The name Kota identifies different ethnic groups located in Gabon, united by some artistic concepts, including those exemplified by this figure of a reliquary.

* The reliquary is accompanied by scientific analyzes of the wood which confirm a dating to the first half of the twentieth century.

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