AN UNUSUAL YORUBA DOOR, carved in high relief with four registers of figures including two equestrians, a man in a palm tree, two females pounding, a priest with staff and rattle, two kneeling females with bowls, two copulating couples, eleven men with guns and two with dogs on leashes, cracks, attributed to Oshamoko of Osi-Ilorin

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AN UNUSUAL YORUBA DOOR, carved in high relief with four registers of figures including two equestrians, a man in a palm tree, two females pounding, a priest with staff and rattle, two kneeling females with bowls, two copulating couples, eleven men with guns and two with dogs on leashes, cracks, attributed to Oshamoko of Osi-Ilorin
1m.32cm. high

Lot Essay

The central equestrian figure is typical of the work of Oshamoko but the abberant bands dividing the registers is curious. Such unusual features could be the result of an early work by this master or an experimental phase of his later work, a matter which might be resolved by further research into his oeuvres.

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