23rd Aug, 2022 9:30
Ethnographic Art
A tall Marka house post, Mali, the standing female figure with horns, the heads on the abdomen, with metal strip bush repair, 221cm; a Bambara sectional marionette, painted with white spots on a black pigment ground (a vacant aperture to the centre of the head), 174cm
The Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
Sold for £170
A tall Marka house post, Mali, the standing female figure with horns, the heads on the abdomen, with metal strip bush repair, 221cm; a Bambara sectional marionette, painted with white spots on a black pigment ground (a vacant aperture to the centre of the head), 174cm
ProvenanceThe Andrzej von Staranburg Niedenthal collection, London, UK.
