Lot no. 6
Earthenware funerary vase or urn, CALABAR, Cross River State, Nigeria.
Presumed to date from the XIV-XVI century.
Height: 32 cm.
Chips.
Provenance: Collection of a couple of collectors, Blois.
Note: Calabar urns or pseudo-bottles were kept in caches, which contained numerous ritual objects, which explains the very good conservation of these terracottas.
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African, American and Oceanic Art
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