Large wicker shield "ngubo / "ngabo" · D. R. Congo, Baali · ID: 3047816
sold
EUR 4,000
Provenance
Piet Lepelaar, Leiden, The NetherlandsSize
H: 150 cm
B: 59 cm
H: 59.1 inch
B: 23.2 inch
Description
rattan, plant fibre, wood (grip board),
Shield of unusual size with elaborately decorated grip board.
A comparable example entered the holdings of the Africa Museum Tervuren in 1916 (Inv. no. EO.0.0.19590). Another one illustrated in Elsen (2002), p. 209 (AHDRC 0034934).
The object Large wicker shield “ngubo / “ngabo” with the object ID 3047816 was part of the auction 96th Auction on April 24, 2021. The object with the lot number 112 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,000 with an asking price of EUR 3,000.
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Comparing literature
Baur, Ivan & Jan Elsen, Guba, Vol. 1, Brussels 2002, p. 209