African Art - Madagascar - Vintage - Covered Pot - Carved Rosewood - 1950

At the gobanaises finds, your decorative art gallery specializing in the 20th century, offers for sale: magnificent ethnic art object, from the island of madagascar. Forming a large covered bowl with two handles, called monoxyl (carved from a single block), richly carved and decorated. Floral motif animated by a character walking in an undergrowth. Very beautiful ethnic piece, made of precious wood: rosewood. The particularity of this wood is to have a shade of color ranging from dark to light. Exceptional manual work, we can see on the bowl the traces of gouges and wood chisels. Traditional of african art, this object is a worthy representative of this ancestral. High quality decorative object will delight lovers of african art, or atypical decoration. The lid has an old restoration of use (see photograph). The rest is in sublime condition. Dating from the middle of the 20th century, period 1950. Height: 17cm width at the handles: 24cm diameter: 19.5cm weight: 900 grams.