Anonymous Sapi artist
Seated Male Figure
Sierra Leone
16th century or earlier
Stone
16th century or earlier
Stone
height 7 cm
height 2 3/4 in
height 2 3/4 in
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Provenance
Paolo Morigi (1939-2017) Collection, Magliaso-Lugano, Switzerland , circa 1968
By descent through family, 2011
Native Auctions, Brussels, “African and Oceanic Art”, 11 June 2011. Lot 21.
Private Collection, Antwerp, Belgium, 2011-2024
Publications
Lamp, Frederick J., “Ivory and Stone: Direct Connections between Sculptural Media along the Coast of Sierra Leone, 15th–16th Centuries”, Afrique : Archéologie & Arts, 16, 2020, fig. 11b