Lot 35 Dα

Provenance

Christie’s, London, 31 March 1982, lot 80
Peter and Vena Schnell, Zurich
Sotheby’s, Paris, 3 December 2004, lot 121
Millon & Associés, Paris, 23 January 2019, lot 16
French private collection

When catalogued by Christie’s, William Fagg suggested it might perhaps date from the nineteenth century and its possible origin as the western Igbomina area. John Pemberton III attributed it to Ilorin.