length 5in (12.7cm) Provenance Dr. Alexander S. Honig Collection, Bronxville, New York Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1993, Lot 23 Joel Cooner Gallery, Dallas Jim Harris Collection, St. Louis Thomas Alexander III, St. Louis and New York Leon Meizlik Collection, Westchester, New York Published Chemeche, George, The Horse and Rider in African Art, Antique Collector's Club, Ltd., Suffolk, 2011, p. 63 The figure, standing on top with legs bent at the knees, appears to be vaulting on an animal with ambiguous identity depicted with a large spherical head, four short legs and a long tail; dark patina with sacrificial encrustations throughout. Cf. Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon - Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, fig. 5, for a related figure.
length 5in (12.7cm) Provenance Dr. Alexander S. Honig Collection, Bronxville, New York Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1993, Lot 23 Joel Cooner Gallery, Dallas Jim Harris Collection, St. Louis Thomas Alexander III, St. Louis and New York Leon Meizlik Collection, Westchester, New York Published Chemeche, George, The Horse and Rider in African Art, Antique Collector's Club, Ltd., Suffolk, 2011, p. 63 The figure, standing on top with legs bent at the knees, appears to be vaulting on an animal with ambiguous identity depicted with a large spherical head, four short legs and a long tail; dark patina with sacrificial encrustations throughout. Cf. Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon - Selections from the Lester Wunderman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, fig. 5, for a related figure.
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