A Rare Baule Heddle Pulley, Ivory Coast

representing the head of the bush cow in horizontal position with six arching horns; '1734' in white pigment on bottom, old label 'Ratton Paris' on inside of the body; on Inagaki-style base; exceptionally fine glossy dark brown patina with white and light brown residue. 

Charles Ratton, Paris
Hotel Drouot, Paris, May 31, 1972, lot 11
Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, June 14, 1979, lot 76
The British Rail Pension Fund of 1734, London
Acquired at Sotheby's London, July 3, 1989, lot 82

Cf. Sweeney (1935: pl. 140) for a closely related pulley, formerly in the Louis Carré Collection, Paris.