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A FANTE WOOD FEMALE SHRINE FIGURE, LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY
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09月11日 晚上8点 开拍 / 09月09日 下午3点 截止委托
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A FANTE WOOD FEMALE SHRINE FIGURE, LATE 19TH-20TH CENTURY This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve Ghana. The standing female figure boldly carved with a long cylindrical body, short legs, and block-like feet, the arms held close to the sides with the hands projecting forward. The head with a serene, mask-like expression, long nose, and small mouth, framed by a pair of dark curved horns incised with bands, the elongated neck encircled by rings. The torso is detailed with prominent breasts and a protruding navel. Provenance: Professor Gert Chesi, acquired circa 1990-2015 for the Museum der V?lker (formerly Haus der V?lker, Museum für Kunst und Ethnographie), Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria, and subsequently de-accessed. Gert Chesi (b. 1940) is an Austrian photographer, author, and art collector. In 1995, Chesi founded the Museum der V?lker (formerly Haus der V?lker, Museum für Kunst und Ethnographie), Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria, a museum of art and ethnography whose collection consists mainly of objects acquired during Chesi’s travels through Africa and Asia, most of which were assembled in the 1990s and early 2000s. He also authored several books on African voodoo and magic rituals, including ‘Voodoo. Afrikas geheime Macht’ (1987) and ‘Die letzten Afrikaner’ (1977). Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, few age cracks, small chips, light surface scratches. Weight: 562 g Dimensions: Height 54.5 cm The standing female icon , widespread in West African sculpture, carries particular resonance in Akan art, where poise, dignity, and stability are central ideals. As Cole and Ross note, Akan inheritance and succession traditionally follow the female line, and the sculptural image of womanhood therefore emphasizes strength, rootedness, and uprightness: “women must be strong, solidly rooted to earth but upright on it.” (Cole, Herbert & Doran Ross, The Arts of Ghana, UCLA Museum of Cultural History, 1977, pp. 107-113). In the present figure, these qualities are expressed through the firm stance, columnar body, prominent breasts, and composed facial expression, all suggesting fecundity, continuity, and moral authority. Most distinctive is the elaborate horned coiffure, its dark, upward-curving lobes enlivened by obliquely incised bands. Rather than animal attributes, these projections reproduce a hairstyle documented on Fante figures and fashionable during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The coiffure forms an emphatic marker of beauty and social identity, reinforcing the themes of mature womanhood, fecundity, dignity, and status embodied by the figure. The Fante are an Akan-speaking people inhabiting Ghana’s central and western coast, whose position along the Gulf of Guinea brought them into sustained commercial and diplomatic contact with European powers from the late fifteenth century onward. Historically organized into autonomous states and matrilineal clans, they were also linked by asafo companies fulfilling military, civic, and ceremonial roles. Their rich visual culture encompasses gold regalia, staffs, drums, appliquéd flags, and wood sculpture. While Fante carving is best known for the highly stylized akua’ba figures carried by women seeking conception and the safe birth of a healthy child, the tradition also produced far less common, fully modeled figures for shrines. These larger sculptures vary considerably in form and function, and their precise identities were often dependent upon ritual contexts that are no longer recorded. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related Fante wood figure, dated 19 th -20 th century, 51 cm high, from the collection of Stéphane Kurc, Paris, and illustrated on Artkhade.com. Compare a related wood female figure with horned coiffure, dated 1850-1925, 36.9 cm high, in the Art Institute of Chicago, reference number 1996.40. Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Bonhams New York, 16 November 2021, lot 68 Mid-Estimate: USD 50,000 or approx. EUR 53,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: Fante Female Shrine Figure, Akan Culture, Ghana Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and manner of carving. Note the larger size (99.7 cm). Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Sotheby’s New York, 16 November 2002, lot 22 Price: USD 3,286 or approx. EUR 5,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: An Akan, possibly Agni, female figure Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and manner of carving. Note the missing limbs and coiffure.

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