Reliquary figure. Wooden core plated with repoussé brass lea - Lot 279

Reliquary figure. Wooden core plated with repoussé brass leaves. The body is stylized in the shape of an openwork rhombus. The concave face features coffee-bean eyes and a triangular nose. The sides and top of the crescent-shaped headpiece are decorated with hatched triangles. The pendants hanging from the sides are circular and covered with brass. The neck is brass-plated and decorated with chevrons. The back is adorned with a rhombus. Gabon, Kota country. Collected in situ by Paul and Angèle Lirand before 1929, passed on to their youngest daughter, Daniele, the current owner's mother, who gave them to her following a family reunion in 1989, at the end of which her sister Eliane had also decided to give certain objects to her cousins, some of which were sold by us on May 9, 2023.