Goldweight: Seated Figure

Arts of Africa

Mid–19th/mid–20th century

Asante or related Akan-speaking peoples
Ghana
Coastal West Africa

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Asante
Title: Goldweight: Seated Figure
Place: Ghana (Object found in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1850–1950
Medium: Copper alloy
Dimensions: 6.8 × 5.1 × 2.2 cm (2 11/16 × 2 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Wielgus
Reference Number: 1958.289

Diane Pelrine, “Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection,” (Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1996), p. 215.
Ladislav Segy, African Sculpture (New York: Dover Publications, 1958), fig. 45 (ill.).

Ladislas Segy (L. Szecsi; died 1988), Segy Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1955; sold to Raymond Wielgus (died 2010) and Laura Wielgus (died 2003), Chicago, Ill., by 1958; given to the Art Institute, 1958.

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