A beautiful ancient head in the Adanse Fomena style. According to the classification established by Bernard de Grunne (Terres cuites anciennes de l'Ouest africain, 1980, p. 148-149), this head belongs more precisely to the Fomena-Adanse style, "whose golden age would be the 17th and 18th centuries", characterized in particular by: "an almost life-size head, with arched eyebrows, clearly modelled half-open eyelids, and lips treated geometrically in thin flat bands". Within the corpus, this head closely resembles a head from the former Collection du Comte Baudouin de Grunne, now in the Dapper Collection (inv. n°1803) and published in Ghana : Hier et aujourd'hui, 2003, p. 53. Akan, Ghana or Ivory Coast Grey, fine-grained clay, smooth on the face part, old missing parts visible in the headdress, old stabilized crack on the back of the headdress. H. 30 cm Provenance : - Alex van Gelder Collection, Paris, acquired ca. 1970