Mother with triplets
Ashanti · Ghana
Reference: MTR-11
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- Height
- 61 cm
- Material
- Wood and patina sacrificial
Mother accompanied by her triplets. One of the children appears in the arms of the mother, who holds the height of half a body. The other…
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Full original description
Mother accompanied by her triplets. One of the children appears in the arms of the mother, who holds the height of half a body. The other two hug his legs. Also among the Ashanti The most important figure is that of the mother, occupying the children, for their smallness and scarcity of details in the sculpture, a very secondary place. Beautiful sacrificial patina with a crusty appearance, with yellow ochre dyes and dark beige. They guess ancient projections of kaoli.
Further technical information
- Width
- 20 cm
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX or earlier.
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Ghana. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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