Akan Terracotta Commemorative Head, Ghana

Susan and Jerry Vogel, New York, acquired in Ivory Coast, circa 1980

Very good condition for an object of this type and age. Minor marks, nicks, scratches, and abrasions from age and handling. Very minor chipping around ears, lips, eyelids, and nose. Chip to bridge of nose. Small pit, probably due to an inclusion in the clay, at proper left cheek as seen in catalogue photograph. Chipping around bottom. Remnants of adhesive at bottom, Blackened spots from firing at proper right side of head and edge of ear, and crown of head. Painted underneath in red: "1.11".
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