id:			157338
accession number:	1994.200
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.200
updated:		2023-12-08 21:50:42.105000

Ifá divination vessel (àgéré Ifá), mid- late 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Èkìtì State, Yorùbá-style carver. Wood and colorant; overall: 31.7 x 15.7 x 15.9 cm (12 1/2 x 6 3/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1994.200

title:				Ifá divination vessel (àgéré Ifá)
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creation date:			mid- late 1800s
creation date earliest:		1850
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, possibly Èkìtì State, Yorùbá-style carver
technique:	Wood and colorant
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 31.7 x 15.7 x 15.9 cm (12 1/2 x 6 3/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Language of Beauty in African Art
	opening date:   2022-04-03T04:00:00
	<i>The Language of Beauty in African Art</i>. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art, 1989-1991.

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PROVENANCE

	Charles Davis, by purchase in Togo ca.1979-1982
	date: ca. 1979 to 1982-1994
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	(Davis Gallery, New Orleans, LA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: by 1994
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1994-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr3939/page/n1

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 22, p. 74 - 75
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	Cole, Herbert M. <em>Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa</em>. <br> Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2017
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 281-282, fig. 257
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	Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel. <em>The language of beauty in African art.</em> 2022.
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	"The Language of Beauty in African Art."<em> Kimbell Art Museum Members' Guide</em> (March–September 2022): 2-7.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  P. 4.
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