Stool with seated caryatid figure, D. R. Congo, Chokwe, Size: H: 22 cm (H: 8.7 inch), ID: 3043352

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Lot 397

88th Tribal Art Auction

Stool with seated caryatid figure · D. R. Congo, Chokwe · ID: 3043352

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

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