Harp ·  D. R. Congo, Kwese · ID: 3035379

Description

grained wood, reddish brown patina, black paint in some areas, trough-shaped soundbox covered with animal skin, the squatting female figure on top elaborately carved (with well-rounded forms and filigree hands), a notch on the upper end of the soundbox and the two drilled holes in the figure may have served for attachment of the harp’s neck, where the strings were fixed, the drilled holes around the rim of the soundbox may have served for attachment of ornament, slightly dam., cracks, socle

The object Harp with the object ID 3035379 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 354 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,500.

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