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Lot 67 Dα

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE

Auction 1205 - overview Brussels
11.05.2022, 14:01 - Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Estimate: 5.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 6.250 € (incl. premium)

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE
Okonja region, Gabon

The following five lots were collected by Henri et Simone Theodore who were based at N'Kame, Gabon, in 1950/51. Mr Theodore was engaged in public construction projects such as the building of roads and aerodromes.
56 cm. high

Provenance

Henri et Simone Theodore, collected in Gabon in 1950/51

Literature

Cf. Perrois, L. et al., Les forêts natales: arts d’Afrique équatoriale
atlantique, Paris, 2017, p.100, fig.228, for a related figure, attributed
to the Obamba of the Okonja region, donated to the Musée de
l’Homme in 1935.