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Beautiful spoon, South Africa, Zulu/Tsonga, Size: L: 54 cm (L: 21.3 inch), ID: 3040110
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Lot 557
82nd Tribal Art Auction

Beautiful spoon ·  South Africa, Zulu/Tsonga · ID: 3040110

sold EUR 10,000
Provenance
Philippe Ratton, Paris, France
Size
L: 54 cm
L: 21.3 inch

Description

wood, oval deepened bowl, carved with a long handle in openwork design: intricately carved in shape of five spirally screwed struts, knob in form of an anthropomorphic head in pierced oval frame, decorative change of colours from middle brown to blackened sections in pokerwork, slightly dam. (rim of the bowl), crack (knob), rep. (bowl), base

The object Beautiful spoon with the object ID 3040110 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 557 achieved a sales price of EUR 10,000.

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Comparing literature

Winizki, Ernst, Afrikanische Löffel, Zürich 1990, ill. 106 Klopper, Sandra et. al., The Art of Southern Africa, Milan 2007, no. 116

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