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Lot 213

Yoruba Equestrian Group, Nigeria

11 November 2019, 15:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$3,825 inc. premium

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Yoruba Equestrian Group, Nigeria

height 6 1/4in (16cm)

Provenance
Joseph Herman Collection, London/Suffolk
Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 December 2000, Lot 139
Graham Beck Collection, South Africa
Thence by descent

The proportionally-large figure sitting upright and holding the reins; fine dark-brown patina with encrustations and remnants of kaolin in crevices.

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