Sculpture - Wood - Senufo - Ivory Coast
A female Rhythmpounder - called "Deblé" - with hands resting on the knees, upraising from a semi-spherical base with a fragmentary child, the torso elongated and slightly bent forward with a pointed navel, framed by arms carved in openwork, the neck decorated with a rectangular pendative, the head in the same manner of the quoted Boundiali maternity, which seems to come from the same workshop; shiny, reddish wood, signs of ritual use and age. Additional charges may be collected.
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A female Rhythmpounder - called "Deblé" - with hands resting on the knees, upraising from a semi-spherical base with a fragmentary child, the torso elongated and slightly bent forward with a pointed navel, framed by arms carved in openwork, the neck decorated with a rectangular pendative, the head in the same manner of the quoted Boundiali maternity, which seems to come from the same workshop; shiny, reddish wood, signs of ritual use and age. Additional charges may be collected.