Luba-Hemba, Dem. Rep. of Congo: An old chief’s stool with a standing female caryatid figure.
Luba-Hemba, Dem. Rep. of Congo: An old chief’s stool with a standing female caryatid figure.
A ‘Kihona’ chief’s stool of the Luba-Hemba, in southeastern Congo. Carved from hard brown wood and coloured black and brown. With a round stand and seat. In between a standing female figure as caryatid with raised arms. The woman displays a typical backward-sweeping Hemba coiffure, with braid décor in relief, and with typical tribal scarification marks on the chest and abdomen. A ‘classical’, unusually old piece with very good usage and shiny patina, and with age-related damage (some pieces broken off on the edges of the seat and bottom boards and on four fingers, one crack to the seat).
Around or before 1900; H: 36 cm. (ME)
Provenance: From the old family collection Van Innis, Belgium; Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Afrikanische Sitze' by Sandro Bocola, fig. 132, 133; '100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture' by Marc L. Felix, fig. p. 35.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
26.05.2015 - 15:00
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Luba-Hemba, Dem. Rep. of Congo: An old chief’s stool with a standing female caryatid figure.
A ‘Kihona’ chief’s stool of the Luba-Hemba, in southeastern Congo. Carved from hard brown wood and coloured black and brown. With a round stand and seat. In between a standing female figure as caryatid with raised arms. The woman displays a typical backward-sweeping Hemba coiffure, with braid décor in relief, and with typical tribal scarification marks on the chest and abdomen. A ‘classical’, unusually old piece with very good usage and shiny patina, and with age-related damage (some pieces broken off on the edges of the seat and bottom boards and on four fingers, one crack to the seat).
Around or before 1900; H: 36 cm. (ME)
Provenance: From the old family collection Van Innis, Belgium; Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Afrikanische Sitze' by Sandro Bocola, fig. 132, 133; '100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture' by Marc L. Felix, fig. p. 35.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Data: | 26.05.2015 - 15:00 |
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