Lot 175: A Baule shrine carving of fighting monkeys

Baule, Ivory Coast; H: 14"

The unusual carving depicting two monkeys with one biting the other in the throat. Heavy encrustation and remains of cloth around the waist of the figures, now hardened in fetish material. A small area cleaned on the back of one monkey showing detailed incising all over the surfaces, now fully obscured. On a custom Base.

Provenance:
Property of a West Coast private collector

Price Realized: $425

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