Nigeria Ogun state, Abeokuta area
Provenance: Josef Mueller (1887-1977), Solothurn, Switzerland
Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, Switzerland, seller 1979
Private collection
Tom Phillips (1937-2022) Collection, London, United Kingdom, 1979-2022 - Christie's, London, "The Late Josef Mueller Collection. Part II", 20 March 1979. Lot 80.
Christie's, London, 4 December 1990. Lot 79
William B. Fagg commented about this object (Christie's, 1979): Stools or stands such as this were commonly used in the innumerable small cults which are found in the villages of the border areas of Nigeria and Dahomey (Benin), notably in the Awori area.
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Nigeria Ogun state, Abeokuta area
Provenance: Josef Mueller (1887-1977), Solothurn, Switzerland
Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, Switzerland, seller 1979
Private collection
Tom Phillips (1937-2022) Collection, London, United Kingdom, 1979-2022 - Christie's, London, "The Late Josef Mueller Collection. Part II", 20 March 1979. Lot 80.
Christie's, London, 4 December 1990. Lot 79
William B. Fagg commented about this object (Christie's, 1979): Stools or stands such as this were commonly used in the innumerable small cults which are found in the villages of the border areas of Nigeria and Dahomey (Benin), notably in the Awori area.
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