Seated bowl bearer "mboko" · D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3038770
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Provenance
Artcurial, Paris, 7 June 2004, lot 102Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Size
H: 34,5 cm
L: 27,5 cm
H: 13.6 inch
L: 10.8 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, elongated limbs and striking big hands, a string of glass beads around the hips, unusual facial features with slanting eyes, elaborate carved eyelashes and smiling mouth, coiffure in four knob-shaped lobes, rest. (breakage left leg, chest), small missing parts (coiffure), fine cracks, traces of abrasion
The object Seated bowl bearer “mboko” with the object ID 3038770 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 452.
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Comparing literature
Neyt, Francois, Luba, Aan de Bronnen van de Zaire, Paris 1994, p. 28