Weaving roll holder. Baule, Ivory Coast. H 18cm. Carved with a bird sitting on the weaving roll and decorated with decorative, white-filled notches. Exhibited and published! Exhibited in: Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of the Ivory Coast , Palais Stutterheim, Erlangen, 2001. illustrated in: K.-F. Schaedler, Die Weberei in Afrika südlich der Sahara / Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara (1988) p.240; ders., Africana (1988) cover; ders., Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur (1994) p. 385; ders., Kunst der Ivbeinküste / Art of Ivory Coast (2001) pp.100-101. Tears to the front and sides of the body of the scroll. Provenance: ex coll. Samir Borro, Abidjan, acquired in the 1970s; ex Christie's New York, November 13, 1985, lot 41; ex coll. Rainer Linnhoff, Munich 2012.
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