Rare stool "mpona" or "kipona" · D. R. Congo, Luba / Kusu · ID: 3046448
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Swedish CollectionJyrki Lammi, Helsinki, Finland
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Size
H: 36 cm
D: 26,5 cm
H: 14.2 inch
D: 10.4 inch
Description
wood, rep. in several places
Only few nonfigurative Luba stools consisting of two platforms mediated by four outwardly bowing supports are known in western collections (cf. Nooter-Roberts, 1998, p.160). It is thought that these stools may have been predecessors of the female caryatid stools for which the Luba are widely known.
This stool, to which a small figure in the centre has already been added to the original form, could represent a transitional form. The only comparable example published in Perspectives, 1987, p. 118 (see also AHDRC 0032141).
Comparing literature
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 160 Susan Vogel et. al., Perspectives, Angles on African Art, New York 1987, p. 118
Publications
AHDRC: 0170776