Old and beautiful spoon from Madagascar, featuring a flat handle contoured with a crocodile in a rounded bump. Jaws open holding a cylindrical object

Beautiful oblong shape of the bowl. Eugene Bettra base

HT 27 cm, late XIXth beautiful caramel brown patina, good state

See in that style: Arts anciens de Madagascar by Bertrand Goy, édition des 5 continents

Page 80 et 85 and in Histoire(s) de cuillères de jean Metzger 2013 page 276 N°653

Bibliography : Vente Artcurial Lempertz 2014.

Origin : Liuba and Ernesto Wolf Collection (before 1964)

Mistakenly indicated to Baoulé art