Staff With Finial in the Form of a Female Figure

18th–19th century

Medium: Iron
Dimensions: 60 1/2 × 4 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (153.67 × 12.07 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne Mitro in memory of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal
Accession Number: 2009.85.2
Geography: Mali
Culture: Bamana
Period: 18th–19th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, December 4, 1965, lot 13
Frieda and Milton Rosenthal, unknown date–2008
Sotheby"s New York, 14 November 2008: The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal: African and Oceanic Art
Anne Mitro, 2008–2009

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal: African and Oceanic Art, sale cat. (November 14, 2008), 45, fig. 23

Susan Vogel, African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise, exh. cat. (Greenvale, N.Y.: C. W. Post Gallery, 1980), 43, no. 12

Hudson River Museum, African Art in Westchester from Private Collections, exh. cat. (Yonkers, N.Y.: Hudson River Museum, 1971), no. 22, fig. 23

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), staffs (walking sticks)

Subject

women

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