Tête en terre cuite 500 B. C. – A. D. 400
Nok sculpture (conservatively ca. 500 B. C. – A. D. 400) represents the earliest fully realized artistic style thus far known from sub-Saharan Africa.
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Informations complémentaires :
- Pays & Régions : Nigéria
- Type d'objet : Statuaire
- Thème : Terre cuite
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- Lieu :
- Provenance : Ratton Hourdé Arts Primitifs, Paris James Willis Tribal Art, San Francisco Cary Hendershott, Little Rock Little RockVente Heritage Auction Galleries June 7, 2007 Dallas Texas Estimate: $80,000-$120,000 (2007) Lot N° 48098
- Bibliographie, Expositions : Documentation. This piece is sold with a full original certificate from Alliance-Science-Art (Réf. 14.19.11 - TL 51205) detailing a thermoluminescence test conducted by Ralf Kotalla on samples taken by Francine Maurer (from the left shoulder under the collar and from the top of the head behind the coiffure). The results of the test show that the date is 2200 years BP (+/- 200), with a +/- 10% margin of uncertainty. There is also a photocopy of a letter to James Willis (vendor to the present owner) from Ratton Hourdé, Paris, attesting that they sold the sculpture to Willis in 1996 and that it is the piece illustrated on the cover of Tribal Arts (see above). Published: Claire Boullier and Alain Person, "Male Statuary of Nok. An Iconography of Seated Male Figures," Tribal Arts, vol. 4, Summer/Autumn 1999, ill. cover and p. 109, fig. 22.
- Caractéristiques : Terre cuite; H.9 inch.
