Auction 100 ASIAN AND TRIBAL ART
By Bertolami Fine Art
Dec 16, 2021
London, Italy
December 16th 2021 at 12:00 noon CET
The auction has ended

LOT 304:

A WOOD, COPPER AND BRASS RELIQUARY FIGURE, MBULU NGULU

Gabon, Kotha

63 cm ...

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Start price:
800
Estimated price :
€1,500 - €2,000
Buyer's Premium: 26% More details
Auction took place on Dec 16, 2021 at Bertolami Fine Art
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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.