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Lot 217
Yoruba Divination Bowl, Ketu Village, Nigeria
12 May 2012, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$1,875 inc. premium
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height 6 3/4in (17cm)
purportedly by the carver Otoro of Ketu, finely detailed with a male hunter with quiver, arrows, bow and undetermined object on his right wrist, sitting beside a female with prominent breasts, kneeling with her hands out-stretched holding a sheep and a chicken in either, the hemispherical bowl which they support on their heads with diamond-shaped patterning on the flat rim and two thin pendant devices extending downward from below the outer edge; traces of red, blue, yellow, and white pigments.
Provenance:
Omar Keinde, Dakar, Senegal
Jack and Constance Wallinga, Minneapolis
purportedly by the carver Otoro of Ketu, finely detailed with a male hunter with quiver, arrows, bow and undetermined object on his right wrist, sitting beside a female with prominent breasts, kneeling with her hands out-stretched holding a sheep and a chicken in either, the hemispherical bowl which they support on their heads with diamond-shaped patterning on the flat rim and two thin pendant devices extending downward from below the outer edge; traces of red, blue, yellow, and white pigments.
Provenance:
Omar Keinde, Dakar, Senegal
Jack and Constance Wallinga, Minneapolis














