DAN GAME BOARD
DAN GAME BOARD
Ivory Coast
78 cm. long Provenance
Galerie Kaiser, Stuttgart, 1977
Cf. Fischer, E. and Homberger, L. (Eds.), African Masters: Art from the Ivory Coast, Zurich, 2014, p.143, fig.III.183, for a very similar game board, "Ma kpon", carved by Son, a Dan carver from Nuopie, born circa 1915. The present lot is almost certainly by the same carver.
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DAN GAME BOARD
Ivory Coast
78 cm. long Provenance
Galerie Kaiser, Stuttgart, 1977
Cf. Fischer, E. and Homberger, L. (Eds.), African Masters: Art from the Ivory Coast, Zurich, 2014, p.143, fig.III.183, for a very similar game board, "Ma kpon", carved by Son, a Dan carver from Nuopie, born circa 1915. The present lot is almost certainly by the same carver.