A Senufo bronze couple, seated on four-legged stools, elongated torsos, on the female figure is a suggling child clinging, the male figure wears an amulet, rounded shoulders and elongated heads, fine facial features surmounted by single-crested coiffures with two plaits, one in front, one in the back; fine, aged patina, significant traces of use. Certificate of providence.

Lit.: About the technique: Förster, Till, Glänzend wie Gold. Gelbguss bei den Senufo, Elfenbeinküste. 1987 Berlin, Museum für Völkerkunde. Holas, B., L´Art Sacré Sénoufo, Limoges, First edition, 1957. Till Foerster, Divination bei den Kafibele-Senufo, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin.

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Height: 22,5 cm / 22,5 cm
Weight: 860 g / 960 g