一个青铜头像 - Ife - 尼日利亚





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来自尼日利亚的青铜头颅,伊菲(Ife)风格,归属于伊菲传统,高15 cm,重830 g,品相一般,具有原始/官方真实性,且卖家提供 provenance 信息。
卖家的描述
A Bronze head in the Ife style, from the Benin City region, Nigeria.
This copper alloy head, attributed to the Ife tradition, features an ovoid face with balanced proportions, characterized by almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose, and carefully modeled full lips. The surface treatment is dominated by fine vertical striations covering the forehead, cheeks, and chin, a feature characteristic of several Ife metal portraits and often interpreted as evoking scarification or ritual facial treatment. The openwork ears, the cylindrical base of the neck, and the hollow construction of the head demonstrate a high level of skill in lost-wax casting, while the variations in brown, reddish, and greenish patina reveal the metal's long history of deterioration. From an anthropological perspective, the controlled naturalism of the portrait, combined with a calm and hieratic expression, suggests less an individual representation in the modern sense than a socially codified image of dignity, power, and identity. In the historical context of Ife, an important political and religious center of the medieval Yoruba world, such metal effigies are generally associated with royal and ceremonial circles, where the representation of the head occupied a major place in the conception of the person, authority, and ancestral memory.
The portrait is of a relative youthful man. It is calm and dignified with the mouth shut. It is particularly engaging - in quality and appearance, and with deep serenity. Art-historical importance of this piece lies in its highly developed and distinctive sculptural style, in the tension between realism and abstraction. On one side it is naturalistic, portrait-like and on the other side it is classical and timeless, it is an idealized naturalism.
A similar terracotta head. Photo: WJ (last photo sequence).
Lit.: Bronzes and Terra-Cottas from Ile-Ife, H. Meyerowitz and V. Meyerowitz, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Arts de L'Afrique Noire, Jean Laude, translated by Jean Decock, University of California Press Berkeley, 1966, 1. Paperback-Edition 1973. 2000 ans d’histoire africaine. Le sol, la parole et l’écrit. Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny. Tome I. Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer. Ife and Raymond Mauny, by Thurstan Shaw, 1981.
Some of the information is generated by artificial intelligence and is based on published sources from the fields of ethnography, archaeology, and art history.
Inv. No. MAZ21681
The seller guarantees and can prove that the object was obtained legally. The seller was informed by Catawiki that they had to provide the documentation required by the laws and regulations in their country of residence. The seller guarantees and is entitled to sell/export this object. The seller will provide all provenance information known about the object to the buyer. The seller ensures that any necessary permits are/will be arranged. The seller will inform the buyer immediately about any delays in obtaining such permits.
卖家故事
A Bronze head in the Ife style, from the Benin City region, Nigeria.
This copper alloy head, attributed to the Ife tradition, features an ovoid face with balanced proportions, characterized by almond-shaped eyes, a straight nose, and carefully modeled full lips. The surface treatment is dominated by fine vertical striations covering the forehead, cheeks, and chin, a feature characteristic of several Ife metal portraits and often interpreted as evoking scarification or ritual facial treatment. The openwork ears, the cylindrical base of the neck, and the hollow construction of the head demonstrate a high level of skill in lost-wax casting, while the variations in brown, reddish, and greenish patina reveal the metal's long history of deterioration. From an anthropological perspective, the controlled naturalism of the portrait, combined with a calm and hieratic expression, suggests less an individual representation in the modern sense than a socially codified image of dignity, power, and identity. In the historical context of Ife, an important political and religious center of the medieval Yoruba world, such metal effigies are generally associated with royal and ceremonial circles, where the representation of the head occupied a major place in the conception of the person, authority, and ancestral memory.
The portrait is of a relative youthful man. It is calm and dignified with the mouth shut. It is particularly engaging - in quality and appearance, and with deep serenity. Art-historical importance of this piece lies in its highly developed and distinctive sculptural style, in the tension between realism and abstraction. On one side it is naturalistic, portrait-like and on the other side it is classical and timeless, it is an idealized naturalism.
A similar terracotta head. Photo: WJ (last photo sequence).
Lit.: Bronzes and Terra-Cottas from Ile-Ife, H. Meyerowitz and V. Meyerowitz, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Arts de L'Afrique Noire, Jean Laude, translated by Jean Decock, University of California Press Berkeley, 1966, 1. Paperback-Edition 1973. 2000 ans d’histoire africaine. Le sol, la parole et l’écrit. Mélanges en hommage à Raymond Mauny. Tome I. Paris : Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer. Ife and Raymond Mauny, by Thurstan Shaw, 1981.
Some of the information is generated by artificial intelligence and is based on published sources from the fields of ethnography, archaeology, and art history.
Inv. No. MAZ21681
The seller guarantees and can prove that the object was obtained legally. The seller was informed by Catawiki that they had to provide the documentation required by the laws and regulations in their country of residence. The seller guarantees and is entitled to sell/export this object. The seller will provide all provenance information known about the object to the buyer. The seller ensures that any necessary permits are/will be arranged. The seller will inform the buyer immediately about any delays in obtaining such permits.
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- Jaenicke Njoya GmbH
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