Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ART.) Carving of a slave, 14-1/2 inches high, sculpted in lignum vitae [iron wood]. The slave is depicted with his hands and feet in shackles; the chains to his hands, bound behind his back, are connected to his head and a bar of some sort placed in his mouth; the left side of the bar seems to have been broken at an earlier time. Np, first half of the 20th century

Additional Details

An unusually detailed piece, carved from one of the hardest woods known, with exceptional detail to each link of the chains binding the slave.