Calabash with stopper · Tanzania, Zigua · ID: 3050988
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium (“FE 9268”)Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Bruno Heimberg (1933-2023), Munich, Germany
Size
H: 17,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch
Description
pumpkin, wood, glass beads, wire, partly sticky sacrificial patina, handwritten collection no. “FE 9268”
Calabashes were used as containers for medicines, ointments, colour pigments, sacred oils and symbolic substances.
The object Calabash with stopper with the object ID 3050988 was part of the auction Auction 103 on November 16, 2024. The object with the lot number 47 achieved a sales price of EUR 600 with an asking price of EUR 500.
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Publications
Felix, Marc L., "Mwana Hiti", München 1990, p. 264, ill. 86