The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection

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Lot 25
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A Fine Sango Reliquary Guardian Figure, Gabon

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

the V- and crescent-shaped openwork body surmounted by a highly expressive face with circular bone (mammalia) eyes covered with strips of metal sheets; '396' in white pigment on the reverse; fine aged patina with remains of encrustation.

Provenance

Acquired at Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, June 19-20, 1980, lot 318

Catalogue Note

For closely related Sango reliquary guardian figures cf. Chaffin and Chaffin (1980: 101); Sotheby's New York, November 19, 1999, lot 265 for one formerly in the George Schwelinger Collection; Laurin, Guilloux, Buffetaud and Tailleur, Paris, October 28, 1987, lot 309; and McKesson (1982: 9) for one formerly in the Lawrence Gussman Collection, New York.