Zemanek-Münster

Staff crowning with four mask faces ·  Angola, Chokwe · ID: 3051120

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Provenance
Erwin & Susanne Melchardt, Vienna, Austria
Size
H: 20,5 cm
H: 8.1 inch

Description

wood, surface treated with wax / oil, base

Artfully carved head piece of a sceptre or dignitary staff “mbweci”. Here in a rare version with four masked faces instead of just one head or Janus-shaped. Bastin commented on a staff crowning with five heads: “This sceptre may represent a chief’s lineage” (Bastin, 1982, p. 192, fig. 112).


The object Staff crowning with four mask faces with the object ID 3051120 was last part of the auction Auction 103 at November 16, 2024 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 395.

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Comparing literature

Bastin, Marie-Louise, La sculpture Tshokwe, Gossau 1982


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