an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. each quadrant containing a stylised

each quadrant containing a stylised plant

long enough to keep your ankles warm

makers stamp to the base

mr ironbar chose to solve the problem of art breakages and wastage by encouraging the women artists to transfer their designs to brass which was a far more durable and luxurious material

One of the great figures of 20th century art

an embossed brass dish depicting " all of you " from old calabar. each quadrant containing a stylisedan 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.