Pot with nine spouts

Uganda / Rwanda / Burundi / Tutsi

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.

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

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