Zemanek-Münster

Storage container "mulondo"

D. R. Congo, Songye
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Size
H: 36 cm
D: 20,5 cm (opening)
H: 14.2 inch
D: 8.1 inch (opening)

Description

terracotta, brownish-red coating (plant extract),
In a report from 1905, the German ethnographer Leo Frobenius praised Songye pottery, attributing to it a “plainly astonishing beauty and a copious abundance of forms.”


Comparing literature

Morin, Floriane & Wastiau, Boris (ed.), African Terra Cottas, Geneva 2008, p. 335

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