Lot 12
12
A BAMBARA FEMALE FIGURE
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A BAMBARA FEMALE FIGURE

Details
A BAMBARA FEMALE FIGURE
Standing with the hands on the hips, conical breasts, median crested coiffure, engraved ornament about the body, on waisted circular base with notched border, a cavity in the back of the coiffure, black oily patina
22cm. high
Literature
Fagg, W., Miniature Wood Carvings of Africa, Bath, 1970, p.45, fig.32
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

William Fagg, in his note to the entry for this fine little figure in his book of 1970, comments that it is probably the finial to a staff of office, and that it resembles some carvings from northern Nigeria

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