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Carved Stone Sculpture from Africa

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    Posted 11 years ago

    ho2cultcha
    (5051 items)

    This is a beauty! i think it's probably from Africa, but i know nothing about it. When i wet the stone, it's this beautiful green color - maybe serpentinite or nephrite [wishful thinking maybe?]. The piece is 23" tall by about 13" wide and it weighs a TON! Any info will be greatly appreciated.

    I hate to categorize this as Folk Art, because i think it's more like fine art, but there's no category for that. grrrrr....

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    1. inky inky, 11 years ago
      Love it!...:-)
    2. AmberRose AmberRose, 11 years ago
      Hi, this is really a nice piece. What is the stone? I wonder if it is by an African artist but made in the USA? Suggest as the granite looking stone doesn't seem native to Africa.
    3. walksoftly walksoftly, 11 years ago
      Very nice!
      Is it from Africa, or done in the style of locally is the question I suppose.

      http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2010/07/from-zimbabwe-to-bloomington/

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpture_of_Zimbabwe
    4. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 11 years ago
      it's called springstone and it's from Zimbabwe or somewhere around there. it's related to serpentine.
    5. walksoftly walksoftly, 11 years ago
      I like how they use the various textures in the sculptures.

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