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Lot 397
88th Tribal Art Auction

Stool with seated caryatid figure

D. R. Congo, Chokwe
sold EUR 600
Provenance
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium
Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
Size
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, rep. (breakage seat).
Present posture was commonly used to represent ancestral spirits in the artistic vocabulary of the Chokwe and related peoples.

Comparing literature

Bastin, Marie-Louise, La sculpture Tshokwe, Gossau 1982, p. 260
Africa
Figures

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