AKAN ASANTE FUNERARY VESSEL GHANA
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Pre 1920: Item # 1291835
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Pre 1920: Item # 1291835
Please refer to our stock # 21681 when inquiring.
$875.00
Extremely rare funerary spool-shaped terracotta vessel created by the Akan people of Ghana, 19th-20th century, with incised simple geometric decoration. A very large example of this rare pottery form (15" in diameter, 7" high) believed to have been created to honor the dead in "places of pots" or asensie.