TWO BAULE KNIVES AND SHEATHS

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TWO BAULE KNIVES AND SHEATHS
Each with double sphere to the carved wood hilt, the smaller with inset upholstery nails, the shaped blades with raised ridges to each side, the hide sheaths with attached pink shells to one side
28cm. and 47.5cm. long (2)

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Import VAT applies; the total amount payable is 127.5% of the hammer price.

拍品專文

Tim Garrard (Art of Côte d'Ivoire, Geneva, 1993, p.153) states: "today, notably among the Baule, they [Baule knives] survive only as objects of prestige owned by family heads and village chiefs. The art of making them has been lost with the disappearance of the traditional blacksmiths, and most examples seem to date from the 19th century."