Terracotta pot with Izzi lizard - Lot 62

Terracotta pot with Izzi lizard Nigeria Terracotta Circa 20th century Height: 11 cm This terracotta receptacle, with its organic shape, is distinguished by its mouthpiece evoking an oral orifice, giving the whole an anthropomorphic dimension. The surface is decorated with a lizard motif in bas-relief, probably a stylized lizard, a recurring symbolic figure in the imaginary world of the Igbo peoples, particularly the Izzi. ---- This terracotta vessel, with its organic form, is distinguished by a mouth-like opening that lends the piece an anthropomorphic quality. Its surface is adorned with a bas-relief motif of a saurian-likely a stylized lizard-a symbolic figure frequently found in the visual culture of the Igbo peoples, and more specifically among the Izzi group.