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Benin / Nigeria Bronze Ceremonial Ladle Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1920   item# 996045 (stock# 1633)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $2,800  Stunning Benin / Nigeria Bronze Ceremonial Ladle, Africa Early 20th Century. 17" long with pleasing facial features on the globular ladle. The handle is a standing figure of a male with attached ring. In excellent condition. Benin / Nigeria Bronze Head of a Warrior King Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1920   item# 995930 (stock# 1632)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 SOLD  Early 20th Century Benin / Nigeria Bronze Head of a Warrior King, Africa. Almost life size at 13" high. With stunning facial features and headdress. Famous bronze memorial heads seem to date back to the 14th Century as powerful warrior kings controlled the area. In excellent condition. Benin / Nigeria Bronze Plaque of Two Warriors Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1920   item# 996087 (stock# 1637)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 SOLD  Benin / Nigeria Bronze Plaque of Two Warriors, Replacement Piece for Royal Palace. Africa, Early 20th Century, 20" high mounted. In excellent condition. Compare to Metropolitan Museum of Art #50. Plaque: Three Men Striking Idiophones with Birds of Prophecy, Edo, Court of Benin, Nigeria, Brass. 16th–17th century, Trustees of the British Museum, London, 98.1–15.117 Yoruba, Nigeria Wooden Shrine Panel Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Artifacts: Pre 1900   item# 918371 (stock# 1577)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $3,800  Yoruba, Nigeria Africa, wooden Shrine Panel, 19th Century. While the meaning of all of the carvings is not known, many images allude to two Yoruba gods, Eshu & Ogun, though they are never depicted. Eshu & Ogun are gods who cross boundaries. Other carved images also refer to the doors' function. For example, snakes & crocodiles are boundary-crossing creatures that inhabit two worlds: above & below the ground, and wet & dry areas. Panel is 61" x 25" with wear appr ...click for details Kotoko / Chad Bronze Fighting Cock Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1920   item# 996055 (stock# 1634)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $3,000  Kotoko / Chad Bronze Fighting Cock, Africa, Early 20th Century. In fighting stance with flaring tail, long spurs, and incised feathers. The cocks comb was removed before a fight to lessen physical damage to rooster. 11 1/2" high and in excellent condition. Yoruba / Nigeria Gelede Wooden Body Mask of Iya Nla Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1910   item# 996110 (stock# 1642)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $14,000  Monumental Yoruba - Nigeria Gelede Wooden Body Mask of Iya Nla (Great Powerful Mother) Early 20th Century 54 H x 21" wide. Arms are available. Kept inside the Gelede Shrine, not danced but carried on a platform during Gelede, an annual festival honoring “our mothers” (awon iya wa), not so much for their motherhood, but as female elders. It takes place in the dry season (March-May) among the Yoruba people of south-west Nigeria and neighboring southeast Benin. Artifact in excellent condition. Anye / Cote d'Ivoire Statue of Mother and Children Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1910   item# 996106 (stock# 1640)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $3,200  Anye / Cote d'Ivoire Statue of Mother and Children. Akan Group, wood late 19th - early 20th Century, 19" high. The Akan are made up of the Ashanti, the Fante, the Aowin, the Anye and a few other small ethnicities. In very good condition. Yoruba / Nigeria Priest's Shango Altar Piece Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: African: Sculpture: Pre 1910   item# 996090 (stock# 1638)  click for details Griffin Gallery Ancient Art tel.561-994-0811 fax.561-994-1855 $8,000  Yoruba / Nigeria Village Priest's Shango Carved Altar Piece. Carved by Jagun Family Worikshop, Africa, late 19th - Early 20th Century. 20" high and mounted. Collected in Ede, and made of Iroko wood. In excellent condition. Return To Top PAGE: 1