Ashanti maternity figure
€290.00
Elegant Ashanti, or Asante, maternity figure carved in wood, depicting a seated woman holding a child across her lap. The composition is both vertical and balanced, emphasizing the relationship between mother and child within a carefully structured seat with geometric supports.
The female figure is distinguished by a long ringed neck, a finely incised hairstyle and a restrained, contemplative face. Her hands frame the child, whose elongated body rests horizontally across her thighs. The surface displays a nuanced light to medium brown patina, preserving visible traces of carving and use.
Within Akan, and particularly Asante, culture, motherhood holds an important place in the continuity of the lineage. Sculptures associated with fertility and childbirth could evoke conception, the protection of pregnancy and family prosperity. The celebrated akua’ba figures are the best-known expression of this symbolic world, although more developed compositions depicting mothers together with their children are also documented.
With its calm posture, frontal treatment and clearly articulated mother-and-child relationship, this sculpture offers a particularly evocative representation of maternity and lineage within the Asante sculptural tradition.
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Data sheet
- Presumed dating
- Mid XXth century
- Size
- 32 cm
- Ethnic group
- Material(s)
- Wood
- Country
- Origin
- Tribal art collection France
- Condition
- Very good
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Elegant Ashanti, or Asante, maternity figure carved in wood, depicting a seated woman holding a child across her lap. The composition is both vertical and balanced, emphasizing the relationship between mother and child within a carefully structured seat with geometric supports.
The female figure is distinguished by a long ringed neck, a finely incised hairstyle and a restrained, contemplative face. Her hands frame the child, whose elongated body rests horizontally across her thighs. The surface displays a nuanced light to medium brown patina, preserving visible traces of carving and use.
Within Akan, and particularly Asante, culture, motherhood holds an important place in the continuity of the lineage. Sculptures associated with fertility and childbirth could evoke conception, the protection of pregnancy and family prosperity. The celebrated akua’ba figures are the best-known expression of this symbolic world, although more developed compositions depicting mothers together with their children are also documented.
With its calm posture, frontal treatment and clearly articulated mother-and-child relationship, this sculpture offers a particularly evocative representation of maternity and lineage within the Asante sculptural tradition.