Caryatid stool "kihona" ·  D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3044201

Description

wood, pigment, rep.

Stools with female caryatids were one of the symbols of royal power amongst the Luba. Women play an intermediary role between the other worldly forces and the world of the living as well as the power of the chief and that of ancestors and spirits.

The object Caryatid stool “kihona” with the object ID 3044201 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 413 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.

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Comparing literature

Sotheby's, African Art from the Egon Guenther Family Collection, New York 18 November 2000, lot 124

Publications

AHDRC: 0153771