Lot 2
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Dogon Ladder, Mali

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • wood
  • Height: 8 ft 4 in (254 cm)

Provenance

Presumably Hélène and Philippe Leloup, Paris and New York
Allan Stone, New York, acquired from the above in the late 1970s or early 1980s

Catalogue Note

Of enormous proportions and great age, this ladder closely relates to another ladder previously in the collections of Hélène and Philippe Leloup and Allan Stone. See Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Allan Stone: African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art – Volume One, November 15, 2013, lot 37.