A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION
A PAIR OF FANTE FERTILITY FIGURES
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A PAIR OF FANTE FERTILITY FIGURES
Each standing on slightly bent, poised legs, armless cylindrical bodies with clearly defined waists, breasts and genitals, flattened heads of elongated rectangles narrowing towards chins, supported by tall ringed necks, stylized faces with arched brows leading to the nose, the female with pierced ears for attachments, the back of the heads incised with horizontal bands of geometric designs including triangles, crosses and diagonal lines, some erosion to the back of the female figure, the male:13½in. (34.3cm.); the female:13¾in. (34.9cm.) high (2)
Each standing on slightly bent, poised legs, armless cylindrical bodies with clearly defined waists, breasts and genitals, flattened heads of elongated rectangles narrowing towards chins, supported by tall ringed necks, stylized faces with arched brows leading to the nose, the female with pierced ears for attachments, the back of the heads incised with horizontal bands of geometric designs including triangles, crosses and diagonal lines, some erosion to the back of the female figure, the male:13½in. (34.3cm.); the female:13¾in. (34.9cm.) high (2)