A Yoruba gelede mask

A Yoruba gelede mask

Nigeria

with a high forehead, scroll top ears, navette eyes with square apertures, pierced nostrils and open mouth with full lips and a small chin, with vertical cheek scarifications, with a channeled and pierced edge for attachment, with a red pigment,

16.5cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Loudmer, Paris, Arts Primitifs, 9 December 1989, lot 224.

Romy Rey Collection, London.