Seated figure „bateba bambar“ wood, matt dark brown patina, encrusted with kaolin, legs stretched out, head with crested coiffure and well-balanced facial features, min. dam., cracks, rep. (at the back of the coiffure), base; figures depicted in sitting posture were called „paralyzed bateba“ - „bateba bambar“. As they cannot move because of paralysis, they guard the house. H: 40,5 cm Provenance Didier Claes, Brussels, Belgium Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 2. Mai 2007, lot 164 Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany Vgl. Lit.: Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, ill. 166 € 2.000 - 4.000
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