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THB20th C. African Baule Wood Female Blolo Bla Figure
Lot 278
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Artemis Fine Arts
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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- Lot Description
Western Africa, Ivory Coast, Baule peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure known as a 'Blolo Bla,' a spirit wife or "dream lover" who visits the living in their dreams to serve as an oracle who can predict the future. The figure stands nude atop a hemispherical plinth and holds both arms tightly against her waist and beneath pendulous breasts and plateaued shoulders. Her puffy face bears petite eyes, a slender nose, and a smiling mouth, all beneath a finely incised coiffure with a protruding top knot. The figure is covered in dark brown pigment, and the plinth is covered in yellow pigment. Size: 2.625" W x 9.875" H (6.7 cm x 25.1 cm); 10.1" H (25.7 cm) on included custom stand.
Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
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#157575Chips to plinth, limbs, and back of coiffure, with fading to pigment, light encrustations, and some light abrasions, otherwise intact and very good. Nice remains of pigment throughout.Condition
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