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Prestige staff, D. R. Congo, Luba, Size: H: 81,5 cm (H: 32.1 inch), ID: 3041498
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Lot 427
84th Tribal Art Auction

Prestige staff ·  D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3041498

sold EUR 2,500
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 23 June 1986, lot 91
Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Sotheby’s, New York, 14 November 1995, lot 2
Merton Simpson, New York, USA
Gary Ford, New York, USA
Size
H: 81,5 cm
H: 32.1 inch

Description

wood, shiny reddish brown patina, crowned by female janiform half figure, nearly identical bodies and facial features, drilled ear holes, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of usage

Comparing literature

Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 164, ill. 151

Publications

AHDRC: 0119995

Africa

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