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A fine Tutsi bracelet
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
of enormous proportions, the spherical wooden bracelet with a section carved for insertion of the wrist and decorated overall with delicate strips, bands and tacks of copper; fine aged reddish brown surface.
Provenance
Stolper Galleries, Robert Stolper and Morton Lipkin, Amsterdam, April 12, 1967
Exhibited
New York, The African-American Institute, Beauty by Design: The Aesthetics of African Adornment, September 19, 1984 - January 5, 1985 [Miami, The Center for Fine Arts, February 2 - March 17, 1985]
Literature
Brincard 1984: 124, figure E37
Catalogue Note
Cf. Ginzberg (2000: 214) for a closely related example.