Bust of Queen Mother, 18th century

  • Asante, African

Terracotta

  • Overall: 15 × 11 inches (38.1 × 27.9 cm) Mount: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm)

Museum purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund

2006.148

On View

  • African, Level 1, North

Department

African Art

late 1960s, collected by Alex Van Gelder in (Ghana)

purchased by C. van Roon (Belgium)

purchased by Neil Bolls (Chicago, Illinois, USA)

2000, acquired by (Yassine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA)

2006-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Quarcoopome, Nii. “Akan Funerary Arts in Terra-cotta.” Bulletin of the DIA 91, 1/4 (2017): p. 77 (fig. 4.3a-b).

Asante, African, Bust of Queen Mother, 18th century, terracotta. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, 2006.148.