Beautifully carved trinking cup, D. R. Congo, Kuba/Lele, Size: H: 18,5 cm (H: 7.3 inch), ID: 3040108

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Lot 474

82nd Tribal Art Auction

Beautifully carved trinking cup · D. R. Congo, Kuba/Lele · ID: 3040108

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Provenance

Roger Bédiat, Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Size

H: 18,5 cm

H: 7.3 inch

Description

wood, rich reddish brown patina, barrel-shaped corpus, decorated with accurately incised ornaments: continuous pattern of linear ridges with grid-pattern inbetween, rising from a foot in openwork design with seven angled “legs”, slightly dam., rep. (rim?), small crack

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