Two textiles
D. R. Congo, Pende
Price
EUR 400
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
Rudolf Leopold, Vienna, AustriaSize
M: 63 cm x 50 cm (each)
M: 24.8 inch x 19.7 inch (each)
Description
finely woven raffia with a small triangular pattern in “kasai plush”, the edges lined with fringes
In the past, velvets were basically funerary textiles and were thus expected to be of particularly high quality.