Container for gunpowder · D. R. Congo, Bakongo · ID: 3052443
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Shirley and Hy Zaret (1907-2007), Connecticut, USA (2008)Pierre Bergé, Brussels, 5 June 2008, lot 1328
H. Kellim Brown, Brussels, Belgium (“HK80408”)
Size
H: 10 cm
H: 3.9 inch
Description
wood, handwritten collection no. “HK80408”, another collection no. on the bottle neck “4262”, base
The object Container for gunpowder with the object ID 3052443 was part of the auction Collectors’ Items Sale on September 24, 2025. The object with the lot number 278 achieved a sales price of EUR 450 with an asking price of EUR 150.
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Comparing literature
Ginzberg, Marc, Afrikanische Formen, Mailand 2001, p. 56
Publications
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