Object Details
- Baule artist
- Label Text
- Gold dazzles the eye and captures the attention. Baule leaders and elites own gold-covered wood figures, whisks and other prestige items to underscore their high position in society. These markers of status are part of a family's inheritance and are linked to ancestral forces and the soul of the family. Gold-covered objects are displayed at funerals and at certain masquerade performances and ceremonies associated with leadership.
- Description
- Wood display piece in the form of a jug, covered with gold leaf, with a face on the side of the jug.
- Provenance
- A. Protopchaltis, Greece, 1920
- Mrs. Skopoulos (Protopchaltis family), -- to 1991
- Alain de Monbrison, Paris, 1991 to 2005
- Exhibition History
- African Mosaic: Selections from the Permanent Collection, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 19, 2013–August 12, 2019 (deinstalled July 9, 2019)
- African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., November 19, 2010-November 13, 2013
- Published References
- Vogel, Susan Mullin. 1997. Baule: African Art, Western Eyes. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 200.
- Vogel, Susan Mullin. 1999. L'art Baoule: du visible et de l'invisible. New Haven: Yale Univeristy in association with Editions Adam Biro. (French translation of 1997)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. de Monbrison
- Late 19th-early 20th century
- Object number
- 2005-8-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- Wood, gold leaf, staples
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 12 x 8.3 x 7 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Geography
- Côte d'Ivoire
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- Status
- Human
- male
- Record ID
- nmafa_2005-8-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys717a9c8b9-81b5-4cd0-9338-9f261b6a0b28
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