Exceptional Fang-gabon Reliquary Statue

Very beautiful and rare Fang sculpture from Gabon in carved and patinated wood height 67cm beard and forehead studded one arm glued otherwise good condition In Fang society, the authority was in the hands of the eldest. Each head of the family kept the bones of the deceased ally in a box made of bark. Heads or statuettes were carved at the bottom to overcome these boxes to represent the soul of the deceased. they were kept in a hut built away from the houses. Strange and fascinating statuette forming a synthesis of aspects of the human body. The headdress is pierced in his back to attach feathers to it, I insist on the rarity of this type of Fang sculpture, a copy of which can be seen (can be from the same sculptor) at the DAPPER Foundation formerly Epstein collection An impression of power emerges of this reliquary with the help of his large copper or brass eyes piece probably dating from the end of the nineteenth and or early twentieth Provenance collection of the great Merchant Guy PIAZZINI died in 2018 (Galerie Gam) at 13 rue Bonaparte in Paris) sending free worldwide