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**Originally Listed At $600**

Western Africa, Ivory Coast, Baule peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden figure known as a 'Blolo Bla,' a spirit wife or "dream lover" who visits the living in their dreams to serve as an oracle who can predict the future. The figure stands nude atop a hemispherical plinth and holds both arms tightly against her waist and beneath pendulous breasts and plateaued shoulders. Her puffy face bears petite eyes, a slender nose, and a smiling mouth, all beneath a finely incised coiffure with a protruding top knot. The figure is covered in dark brown pigment, and the plinth is covered in yellow pigment. Size: 2.625" W x 9.875" H (6.7 cm x 25.1 cm); 10.1" H (25.7 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA collection; ex-Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

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#157575

  • Condition: Chips to plinth, limbs, and back of coiffure, with fading to pigment, light encrustations, and some light abrasions, otherwise intact and very good. Nice remains of pigment throughout.

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