Kneeling couple · Tanzania, Makonde · ID: 3040681
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
German Private CollectionSize
H: 29 cm resp. 31 cm
H: 11.4 inch resp. 12.2 inch
Description
heavy wood, shiny dark brown patina, the faces strongly reminding of helmet masks of the Makonde, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
figures of the Makonde are rarely to be found, most of them are in museums, only a few of them in private collections. Most of them are females in a so-called “dancing posture”.
Comparing literature
Roy, Christopher D., Kilengi, Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Bareiss, München 1997, p. 118, ill. 57