figure (communication artefact)

A brass Fon sculpture. Female figure, wearing a patterned dress, stands balanced on two legs holding in her left hand, the right leg of an ornately patterned, dog-like figure balanced on its two hind legs with mouth open and ears turned back. The two figures are attached by four screws to a thin, rectangular wooden platform, the four edges scored with two decorative parallel lines. Originally made by Brass Casters' Guild in Benin Republic, purchased from junk shop in England..

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