A Lobi couple of Pessare Dah, standing on wedgshaped feet, slightly bent legs with distinguished patella, columnar torso with protruding, hanging abdomen, small, tapering breasts, the slender arms close to the body, with stylized, elongated hands, the cylindrical, short neck supporting an ovoid head with fine fascial features, the almondshaped eyes framed by arched brows and large, disk-shaped ears, the helmetlike coiffure with a middle-ridge.; natural brownish patina with traces of encrustrations, several agecracks in particular at the male sculpture.

This carver/workshop is well documented in literature, auctionhouses and the Yale Guye van Rijn Archive of African Art. Large, old exemplares like these ones are rare and high-valued at the international market. We suppose at least two carvers with different creation-periods of this workshop. It is probably only a question of time, that this carver/workshop will be located and named. Sources of analogous exemplares on request.

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Height: 81 cm / 81,5 cm