Yoruba - 230613 - Old African Yoruba hors rider. - Nigeria.

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  • Description
  • Yoruba
TypeEthnographic art
Period1945 to 1999
TechniqueWood
StyleAfrican
SubjectFigure
Dimensions58 x 18 x 36 cm (h x w x d)
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Old African Hors Rider from the Yoruba, Nigeria.Hand carved from a single piece of wood.Size: 58 cm high.

Taxatiewaarde: 250 - 350  euro.

Stylistic Yoruba figure from Nigeria. The ancestor figure is riding a horse. 

Good condition with clear traces of wear and tear.

The Yoruba people, numbering over 12 million, are the largest nation in Africa with an art-producing tradition. Most of them live in southwest Nigeria, with considerable communities further west in the Republic of Benin and in Togo. They are divided into approximately twenty separate subgroups, which were traditionally autonomous kingdoms. Excavation at Ife of life-sized bronze and terracotta heads and full-length figures of royalty and their attendants have startled the world, surpassing in their portrait-like naturalism everything previously known from Africa. The cultural and artistic roots of the Ife masters of the Classical Period (ca. 1050—1500) lie in the more ancient cultural center of Nok to the northeast, though the precise nature of this link remains obscure.

Now two-third of the Yoruba are farmers. Even if they live in the city, they keep a hut close to the fields; they grow corn, beans, cassava, yams, peanuts, coffee, and bananas. It is they who control the markets -- along with the merchants and artisans: blacksmiths, copper workers, embroiderers, and wood sculptors, trades handed down from generation to generation. 

Condition
ConditionVery good
Shipment
Pick up The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Hengelo, The Netherlands
ShipmentParcel post
PriceUp to 10 kg.
Within The Netherlands €8.00
To Belgium €25.00
To Germany €25.00
Within Europe €25.00
Worldwide €49.85

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Auction details
Start time12-11-2023 at 12:27
End time19-11-2023 at 15:31
Starting bid €89
Buyer's premium: 15%
Pick upYes, possible
LocationHengelo,  The Netherlands