an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. One of the great figures

One of the great figures of 20th century art

makers stamp to the base

the artist would only use a little poetic freedom when it came to the flags and pennants which are nearly always flying perfectly in a direction contrary to the wind

the rim is decorated with what appears to be scales maybe representing a serpent swallowing its taii an "ouroboros "

a framed folk art silk/ wool work flag styled as the regimental flag/ colours of the 76th west riding regiment

an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. One of the great figuresan antique embossed brass dish from old calabar depicting the tortoise named " all of you " the main charecter in the allegorical tale from igbo folklore " the tortoise and the birds " dating from around 1910 350mm diameter. (the dish has a couple of small stress fractures on the tortoise shell.) "The Tortoise and the Birds" is a folktale where the cunning but greedy tortoise tricks the birds into giving him feathers to fly to a feast in the sky.