Statue-column Ebrié, Attié, Ivory Coast
Wood
H.... Lot 20
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Statue-column Ebrié, Attié, Ivory Coast
Wood
H. 78 cm
Provenance:
- Former Monbrison collection, Paris
- Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris
- Former French private collection
- Christie's, Paris, December 11, 2014, lot 136
This beautiful and rare Ebrié caryatid temple column represents a woman supporting an architectural element in the form of a drum on her head, her legs firmly planted on a small pedestal, her arms raised, her chest and umbilicus projecting. The drum, Fokwe mi, is characteristic of the lagoon peoples. The frieze of sculpted human heads probably represents decapitated slaves, ancestors or members of an age group. (cf. Arts de la Côte d'Ivoire, Barbier Mueller for a similar drum) The large statuary of the lagoon peoples is particularly rare, having been mostly destroyed by a missionary named William Wade Haris, who organized with his followers the systematic destruction of all traditional religious images.
A comparable example in the Pierre & Claude Vérité collection, Enchères Rive Gauche, 2006, lot 102.
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