Storage container "mulondo" · D. R. Congo, Songye · ID: 3045801
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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.”
The object Storage container “mulondo” with the object ID 3045801 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 237.
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Comparing literature
Morin, Floriane & Wastiau, Boris (ed.), African Terra Cottas, Geneva 2008, p. 335