Estimate:
€3,000 - 5,000
Description
A SOKOTO HEAD
NIGERIA
Terracotta
Thermoluminescence dating: 300 BC ± 170 years, certificate issued by Alliance-Science Art, Francine Maurer, 28 June 1994
H.: 10¼ in.
Provenance:
Claude-Henri Pirat, Brussels
Jean-Jacques Rotthier Collection (1932–2009), Brussels, then by descent
Exhibitions:
Naissance de l'art en Afrique Noire : la statuaire Nok au Nigeria, Luxembourg, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, 1998, 12 October – 13 December 1998
Bibliography:
Schaedler, (Karl-Ferdinand), Earth and Ore, 2500 years of African Art in Terra-cotta and Metal, Eurasburg, 1997, p.212
Naissance de l'art en Afrique Noire : la statuaire Nok au Nigeria, Banque Générale du Luxembourg & Ed. Adam Biro, Paris, 1998, p. 104, fig. 62
