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A Tshokwe comb
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description
composed of two cranes facing one another, each with long, faceted necks, rounded heads and long beaks, the eye sockets pierced through, one with remaining glass-bead eye, above a row of tines; '920' on the base; varied medium brown patina.
Literature
Robbins and Nooter 1989: 548, figure 1488
Catalogue Note
Cf. Petridis (2003: 98, figure 34) for a related comb depicting two white-bellied storks in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of art, accessioned in 1915.