A Baule mask, Ivory Coast, of hollowed oval form, with a pointed mouth and pronounced philtrum beneath a slender nose with prominent nostrils, leading to high arched patterned browns, downturned crescent eyes, scarification marks on the forehead and around the mouth, triangular ears projecting outwardly from the face, a decoration along the cheeks, capped by a fine elaborated coiffure which ended on each side with a carved face, pierced through at the rim for attachment; brown surface, traces of age and ritual use, incl. stand.

Lit.: Susan M. Vogel: Baule. African Art, Western Eyes, 1997; Gernard de Grunne: Über den Baule-Stil und seine Meister. In: Eberhard Fischer/Lorenz Homberger: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 81-106.

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Height: 29 cm
Weight: 890 g