‡ Three-Faced Baule Pulley

Description

Ivory Coast

Wood
23,8 cm

Provenance:
Loudmer, Paris, Arts Primitifs, 24 April 1997, lot 61
Myron Kunin (1928-2013) Collection, Minneapolis
Sotheby's, New York, In Pursuit of Beauty: The Myron Kunin Collection of African Art, 11 November 2014, lot 39
Private collection, London

Finely carved heddle pulley with beautiful layered patina. A similar three-headed heddle pulley from the same workshop belongs to the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), inv. n°70.41.

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‡ Three-Faced Baule Pulley

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