Featured An intersting Ivory sculpture

Discussion in 'Art' started by jingyel, Jun 23, 2020.

  1. jingyel

    jingyel Well-Known Member

    Could anyone me the topic, origin, and age of this piece.

    It looks like a kind of tribe worship scene ... they waiting in line and climbing a tower, by the top there is an animal.

    do you think this about African or other culture ? 901-8.jpg 901-2.jpg 901-5.jpg 901-9 (1).jpg 901-4.jpg 901-9.jpg 901-3.jpg 901-7.jpg 901-6.jpg
     
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  2. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    size and diameter of open end?
     
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  3. jingyel

    jingyel Well-Known Member

    1 3/4" wide at bottom open end, Approximately 15" long
     
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    How long is this? {just answered}

    This looks to me more like some kind of horn coated over with a resin of some sort & crosshatching meant to look like Schreger lines drawn on.

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  5. jingyel

    jingyel Well-Known Member

    For ivory the width is too narrow compared to length. So maybe it is made of bone.
     
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  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Could be Loango, could be neighbouring Kongo or one of the other neighbours. These are generally called Kongo ivories, and they are ivory. The cross-hatching design is decorative/symbolic and not meant to deceive.
    Historic Kongo covered parts of present-day Congo, Gabon and Angola.
    @2manybooks will probably know more.
     
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  8. Any Jewelry

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  9. Miscstuff

    Miscstuff Sometimesgetsitright

    +1
    I'm not seeing Schreger lines in the blank areas nor on the figures. The spiral ascending strips seem to have vertical lines not distinct crosshatching.
     
  10. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    OP's horn:

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    These examples found on the internet purport to be ivory. Why so different? Does it, I suppose, depend on the animal it came from?

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  11. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    The first photo you put up after OP's looks like elephant ivory as I am used to seeing it. If these long, slender, thin walled tusks are also ivory, I can only imagine they come from young elephants.
     
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  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Crosshatching only appears in cross sections. Ivory does show lines running the long way.

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