A pair of East African figures, probably Thonga

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A pair of East African figures, probably Thonga
unusually large and carved as an officer and his wife: he wears a greatcoat, cap with coat-of-arms and a breast star of an Order, holding a quirt in the right hand, she wears a long dress with engraved cross, a bow at the neck and a top hat, a walking stick in the right hand -- 46cm. and 49cm. high (2)

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Cf. a mustachioed gentleman in a sectioned cap sold at Christie's South Kensington, 2 December 1986, lot 355, of smaller size but with similar characteristics, and a group carved for João Bello in Lourenco Marques in the first quarter of this century (CSK 21 March 1983, lots 245-247)

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