Shield · D. R. Congo, Mbesa · ID: 3035119
sold
EUR 4,500
Provenance
collected in situ by Charles Smets, who participated in the American Museum’s Congo Expedition of 1909-15. In 1990 an exhibition was developed with hundreds of photographs of objects from this expedition, along with many fine archival photographs taken by Herbert Lang on the expedition. The publication “African Reflections” by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis Keim was published as companion to this exhibition. It traces the art history of northeastern Zaire from before the first encounters with Europeans in the 1870’s to the present.Size
H: 105 cm
H: 41.3 inch
Description
wood, basketry, plant fibre cords, animal skin, blackish mass, unusual: concave vaulted form, metal hunch in the center, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion and usage
The object Shield with the object ID 3035119 was part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction on May 25, 2013. The object with the lot number 398 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,500 with an asking price of EUR 2,000.
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Comparing literature
Baur, Ivan & Jan Elsen, Guba, Brussels 2002, p. 194 f.