Spoon with anthropomorphic head, before 1900
Mozambique, Tsonga, Muhlati or his workshop
Price
EUR 1,500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
French Collection (1900)Size
L: 22,3 cm
L: 8.8 inch
Description
wood, pokerwork, labelled on the underside of the spoon: “chaîne symbolique du Mariage - Mœurs des natures de Mozambique - Souvenir de la Guerre des Boers - 1900”
A formally and stylistically almost identical spoon is published by Stevenson & Graham-Stewart, 2003, p. 44. Particularly typical of Muhlati are the circular eyes and the round, deepened ears with distinctive triangle.