£250
African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History | 639
Auction: 5 May 2021 at 12:00 BST
silk and hand spun cotton
Provenance:
The Keir McGuinness Collection of African Textiles
Literature:
Cf. Clarke, D. 2015. African Textiles, London: Prestel Publishing. p. 137.
Note:
"Senior [figures] sometimes wore a large wrapper cloth on top of a tailored robe ensemble. This example, woven with silk from the trans-Saharan trade, would have been extremely expensive and prestigious."
Cf. Clarke, D. 2015. African Textiles, discussing a similar example.