Zemanek-Münster

Pot with nine spouts ·  Uganda / Rwanda / Burundi / Tutsi · ID: 3048560

sold EUR 550
Provenance
Belgian Private Collection
Size
H: 30,5 cm
H: 12.0 inch

Description

red terracotta / ceramics, blackened, rest.

According to Kecskesi, similar pots were used in earlier times to give medicinal beer to convicts shortly before their execution.


The object Pot with nine spouts with the object ID 3048560 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 370 achieved a sales price of EUR 550.

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Comparing literature

Morin, Floriane & Wastiau, Boris (ed.), African Terra Cottas, In the Barbier-Mueller Museums Collections, Geneva 2008, p. 378, Ill. 2


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