A beautiful, large head representing all the classical canons of Nok art and illustrating once again the infinite richness of the hairstyles in this corpus. Nok culture, Nigeria Date: 650 BC - 350 AD Thermoluniscence test, Alliance Science Art - Francine Maurer, Ref : 41.11.92 - TL 704184 (24 / 04 / 1997) Fine-grained yellow ochre terracotta, visible old chips, scratches and wear, old longitudinal crack at the back, beautiful old ochre slip. Height: 20 cm Provenance : - Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels - Marc Blanpain Collection, Brussels Publications and Exhibitions : - Schaedler, Earth and Ore. 2500 Years of African Art in Terra-cotta and Metal, 1997, p. 203, no. 377, Burgrieden-Rot, Museum Villa Rot, June - November 1998 - Grunne (de), Naissance de l'art en Afrique noire, la statuaire nok au Nigeria, 1998, p. 72, no. 29, Luxembourg, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, October 20 - December 13 1998