A fragmentary Ife head, Nigeria, of unknown age;, the sculpture is extremly thinwalled, various defects on the cheeks, forehead and nose.

This object can be visited during the auction in the Gallery Wolfgang Jaenicke. It will not be sent and can only be picked up. After the end of the auction, the highest bidder can have the object for further analysis by its own account without significantly affecting the object in its substance. For this analysis, the winner of the auction has a period of 14 days. The object is from an old African Collection. Restitution organizations and individuals who are intensively concerned with restitution issues were informed about the object. See also Cultural Property Protection Law (Kultur Gut Schutz Gesetz - KGSG).

According to the 1970 UNESCO Convention, the right to repatriation expires one year after the authorities of a country of origin have learned where and with whom a cultural asset is located. The Wolfgang Jaenicke Gallery therefore always provided information about each newly imported object. Especially about the bronzes from Nigeria shown on this page, which are published on the Internet and are accessible to everyone. Organizations that deal with restitution matters, as well as free art historians employed by the state, such as restitution experts such as Benedicte Savoy, are regularly informed about objects in the Wolfgang Jaenicke Gallery.

Every buyer of an art object, regardless of whether it is made of wood, clay or bronze, must be aware that, from a European legal perspective, traditional African art usually came with inadequate export documents from the respective African country of origin. The Wolfgang Jaenicke Gallery, Berlin, tries to do justice to this dilemma by acting with the greatest possible transparency. The export policy of African states is problematic for art-historical research, because African and European traders usually work under cover due to diffuse legal situations and important information that was passed on from trade to research before 1970 tends to be lost.

In the event of any uncertainty, please contact the managing director of Jaenicke-Njoya GmbH - Wolfgang Jaenicke. It is in the gallery's interest to clarify any questionable situation with all available means.

TL Analysis Kotalla: 580 years +/- 16,5 %

sold

Height: 25 cm
Weight: 1,7 kg