A FINE AND RARE KOTA-OBAMBA RELIQUARY FIGURE, Upper Ogooué Region, Gabon

Pierre Vérité, Paris
Chaim and Renee Gross, New York, acquired from the above on September 28, 1951

Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art collects ion of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross, 1976 (additional venues: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, November 5, 1976 - January 2, 1977; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, March 27 - May 1, 1977; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, May 17 - July 17, 1977)

Arnold Rubin, The Sculptor's Eye, Washington, D.C., 1976, back cover and p. 66, cat. 56c
Alain and Françoise Chaffin, L'Art Kota, 1980, p. 220, cat. 118

Good condition overall; proper left pendant missing as seen on photographs; insect damage on bottom of base; metal sheet on the proper left corner of the half moon shaped crest missing; wooden part of the half moon shaped crest, only visible on the reverse, broken twice and repaired with two copper strips each of them attached with six copper nails (not a native repair); on front traces of silver polish inside the cavities between the different.mes tal sheets, strips, and bands; fine aged patina with traces of pervious corrosion.
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