Sale 6788
London, South Kensington
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21 March 1995
Price realised
GBP 652
Estimate
TWO ASHANTI COMBS: each with triangular head finial with pierced triangular coiffure, small breasts on the hatched bodies, suspending a cross and a heart respectively on chain about the neck, damages 26.5cm. high (2)
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Cf. Herbert Cole and Doran Ross, The Arts of Ghana, 1977, p.52, fig.89
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