A female Bankoni terracotta sculpture, Mali, recognizable by its elongated proportions and distinct features. Her ringed left arm descends her body as her large hand rests on her thigh, short legs, a long tubular thin torso, the right arm is holding an object, the head is composed of the same style of mounts; this beautiful slender piece is of great artistic mastery and graceful simplicity who resonate as a whole profoundly, incl. stand. Certificate of provenance.

"Traces of a fourteenth- and fifteenth-century tradition of figurative representations in cast metal and fired clay have been found at a number of sites in the Bamana region near Bougouni and Diola. Bankoni elongated figures, may be an artistic precursor to more recent Bamana wood sculptures devoted to similar subjects."

Source: The MET.

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Height: 32 cm
Weight: 1,5 kg (incl. stand)