Small slit drum · D. R. Congo, Bakongo · ID: 3035277

Name: Small slit drum
SKU: 3035277
Price: 3000 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 3,000

Provenance

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium

Size

H: 9 cm

B: 29 cm

H: 3.5 inch

B: 23.5 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, black paint, kaolin, round bodied corpus, rising from two legs, flat handle-shaped projections on either side, corpus and projections covered with flat incised ornaments (circles, rhombs, zigzag), traces of kaolin to highlight the designs, drilled hole for support, slightly dam., paint rubbed off, crack (one side the projections);
the minature version of larger (up to two meters long) slit drums.

The object Small slit drum with the object ID 3035277 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 320 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.

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