Long-form pieces on dating and provenance, written for the serious private collector — practical protocols and primers that help you acquire with confidence.
A practical, eight-step protocol for assessing the age of a West or Central African wood mask — combining surface evidence, structural cues, scholarly comparisons, and explicit acknowledgment of where dating still goes wrong.
What provenance is, why it matters for African art specifically, what counts as evidence, and what to do when the chain has gaps — written for the serious private buyer who wants to be on the right side of the contemporary debate.