Female power figure "kaponya" or "hamba"

D. R. Congo, Chokwe

sold EUR 1,400

Provenance

Charles Ratton, Paris, France
Hermann 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.

Petridis, Constantine, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Brussels 2008, p. 96 ff.

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