Nok male head, Nigeria Terracotta H. 14,5 cm... Lot 50

Nok male head, Nigeria Terracotta H. 14,5 cm Dating : 2100 BC (certificate of thermoluminescence QED LABORATORY Ref. Qed. 1635/FA- 0702). Provenance : French private collection Beautiful male face with strongly intensified and accentuated features; a protruding and pulpy mouth, the thick and flattened nose, the eyes almost placed on the lateral extremities of the face conferring to its glance a seizing omnipresence, the field of vision being thus widened, from the profile the character, seems to see, to look and to watch. Fluidity of the lines around the eyes. He has a rectangular beard under his chin. His headdress is announced by a crown in the form of a "diadem" at the top of his forehead, stretching delicately towards the back of the skull in a point, covered with light parallel stripes. A strength of character emerges from this face.