Plaited shield "nguba" · D. R. Congo, Ngombe · ID: 3038057
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
Dietmar Scheidt, Berlin, GermanySize
H: 120 cm
H: 47.2 inch
Description
rattan frame, plant fibre, woven in several crisscross layers of reed and small slats, held together with rattan fibres to form a tight wickerwork, decorated with geometrical patterns in dark paint, wooden handle board backside, min. dam., slight traces of usage
The object Plaited shield “nguba” with the object ID 3038057 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 468 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.
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Comparing literature
Zirngibl, Manfred A. & Dieter Plaschke, Afrikanische Schilde, München 1992, p. 115, ill. 105