Mug with handle for palm wine ·  D. R. Congo, Kuba · ID: 3037590

Description

wood, dark brown patina, bellied corpus, rising from a foot in openwork design (reminding of a stools legs), covered with delicate incised patterns and a small mask face, curved handle, slightly dam. (rim of the mug), missing parts (base), rep. (three breakages at the handle);
used for ritual purposes, which is why such cups were made of precious wood and were carved with special care.

The object Mug with handle for palm wine with the object ID 3037590 was last part of the auction 78th tribal art auction at October 18, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 437 achieved a sales price of EUR 540.

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