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Antique African hunting horn of the Sapi people, a rare and very important antique African hunting
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Beschreibung
Antique African hunting horn of the Sapi people, a rare and very important antique African hunting horn from the late 15th or early 16th century, hand-carved, Sierra Leone (West Africa), approximately 1490-1530, apparently created by an artist of the Bullom or Temana ( Temne)
Length: 50 cm.
*Among the most sophisticated sculptural traditions in Africa were the ivo ry works of art made by the Sapi people during the 16th century in the Upper Guinea region of modern Sierra Leone. Their high-quality carvings easily found markets throughout Europe when Portuguese traders purchased hundreds of them as artifacts and brought them to Europe. But the historiography on the nature of their production is controversial, and is marred by the dichotomous discourse common in African art history, a discourse that tends to exaggerate foreign influences and downplay local contexts.
African creativity and intellectual achievements have often been sidelined in Western research in favor of apparent European participation in African skill-building processes. Most scholars emphasize hybridity through the hypothesis of a European destination, and the objects, subjects, and scenes depicted in Sapi's artwork have often been identified solely as symbols and influences from Europe.
The received wisdom regarding the art history of the Safi sculptural tradition is that it was a largely ephemeral tradition that emerged in the mid-15th century on a Portuguese impulse solely for the purpose of export, and that it disappeared by the mid-16th century due to the political upheavals that followed invasions by various groups from the interior, Hence the argument, that for this reason there is little resemblance between Shana B. Safi and the more recent works of art from the region. But this assumption is unfounded, and there are more recent discoveries of local pre-European soapstone carvings; Year 2 and wood carvings from the last three centuries; And the widespread use of motifs that appear on 16th-century Shanabi Safi and local artworks provides solid evidence that the Safi Nahvi were neither isolated nor a temporary art tradition but part of a larger indigenous corpus of artwork whose production both predated and continued after the era of European contact.
Period: 15th century (1400-1500)
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Antique African hunting horn of the Sapi people, a rare and very important antique African hunting horn from the late 15th or early 16th century, hand-carved, Sierra Leone (West Africa), approximately 1490-1530, apparently created by an artist of the Bullom or Temana ( Temne)
Length: 50 cm.
*Among the most sophisticated sculptural traditions in Africa were the ivo ry works of art made by the Sapi people during the 16th century in the Upper Guinea region of modern Sierra Leone. Their high-quality carvings easily found markets throughout Europe when Portuguese traders purchased hundreds of them as artifacts and brought them to Europe. But the historiography on the nature of their production is controversial, and is marred by the dichotomous discourse common in African art history, a discourse that tends to exaggerate foreign influences and downplay local contexts.
African creativity and intellectual achievements have often been sidelined in Western research in favor of apparent European participation in African skill-building processes. Most scholars emphasize hybridity through the hypothesis of a European destination, and the objects, subjects, and scenes depicted in Sapi's artwork have often been identified solely as symbols and influences from Europe.
The received wisdom regarding the art history of the Safi sculptural tradition is that it was a largely ephemeral tradition that emerged in the mid-15th century on a Portuguese impulse solely for the purpose of export, and that it disappeared by the mid-16th century due to the political upheavals that followed invasions by various groups from the interior, Hence the argument, that for this reason there is little resemblance between Shana B. Safi and the more recent works of art from the region. But this assumption is unfounded, and there are more recent discoveries of local pre-European soapstone carvings; Year 2 and wood carvings from the last three centuries; And the widespread use of motifs that appear on 16th-century Shanabi Safi and local artworks provides solid evidence that the Safi Nahvi were neither isolated nor a temporary art tradition but part of a larger indigenous corpus of artwork whose production both predated and continued after the era of European contact.
Period: 15th century (1400-1500)
Sale 86 - Fine and Decorative Arts
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Ha-Metsuda 24B
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5800168
Israel
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We pack and ship worldwide at cost price.
You can ask us for a shipping quote during the catalog presentation
We ship all parcels with Israeli Post EMS (Express mail service) which is cost effective. You can ask for DHL also which is more expensive.
Insurance, import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges, these charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding.
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