Important Wee peoples, Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia wooden mask
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1910: Item # 1490228
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1910: Item # 1490228
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An exceptional wooden mask of the WE or WEE people, Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia, c. late 19th. century - early 20th. century.
Very large and expressive hardwood mask with many early bells, cowrie shells, textile etc. 'Ble gla' singing mask with a human face and a beard made of bells intended to call the protective genies, with slit eyes and a forehead with a median vein.
Note that the skilled maskmaker, used different old bells, incl. a cow bell and other types and some probably from the 16th.-18th. cent.The cowries also looks very old, and in general the patina is great.
Size: 37 cm. tall and 23 cm. wide, 42 cm. tall incl. the costum made stand in black metal.
Condition: Choice Very fine, a very few losses of shells and some wear and tear, sound and stable mask.
Provenance: Ulf Gudmundsen Tribal art collection, c. 1950s-2007. Ulf was a Danish collector of Tribal woodcarvings, and his collection was especially rich on high quality Yoruba and Côte d’Ivoire figures and masks.
Ex. Oliver antique, early 2000s, bought from the auctions of the private collection of the Danish Tribal arts dealer Lau Sunde (shop in Copenhagen, who probably had the best collection of africana ever formed in Scandinavia. Lau Sunde aquired the mask in the 1950s-60s.
Very large and expressive hardwood mask with many early bells, cowrie shells, textile etc. 'Ble gla' singing mask with a human face and a beard made of bells intended to call the protective genies, with slit eyes and a forehead with a median vein.
Note that the skilled maskmaker, used different old bells, incl. a cow bell and other types and some probably from the 16th.-18th. cent.The cowries also looks very old, and in general the patina is great.
Size: 37 cm. tall and 23 cm. wide, 42 cm. tall incl. the costum made stand in black metal.
Condition: Choice Very fine, a very few losses of shells and some wear and tear, sound and stable mask.
Provenance: Ulf Gudmundsen Tribal art collection, c. 1950s-2007. Ulf was a Danish collector of Tribal woodcarvings, and his collection was especially rich on high quality Yoruba and Côte d’Ivoire figures and masks.
Ex. Oliver antique, early 2000s, bought from the auctions of the private collection of the Danish Tribal arts dealer Lau Sunde (shop in Copenhagen, who probably had the best collection of africana ever formed in Scandinavia. Lau Sunde aquired the mask in the 1950s-60s.
