Female power figure "kaponya" or "hamba" · D. R. Congo, Chokwe · ID: 3046746
sold
EUR 1,400
Provenance
Charles Ratton, Paris, FranceHermann Kühn, Munich, Germany
German Private Collection (1991)
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, Lot 162
Size
H: 17 cm
H: 6.7 inch
Description
wood, shiny patina, slightly sticky in places, rest.
The object Female power figure “kaponya” or “hamba” with the object ID 3046746 was part of the auction 95th Tribal Art Auction on October 24, 2020. The object with the lot number 247 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,400 with an asking price of EUR 1,200.
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Comparing literature
Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 96 ff.