Vessel · D. R. Congo, Chokwe · ID: 3041916
sold
EUR 650
Provenance
Ivan Beghin, Belgium (collected in Pangi territory in Maniema province at the end of the 1950’s/early 1960’s, where he worked as medical officer)Size
H: 25,5 cm
H: 10.0 inch
Description
fired clay, blackish coating, polished, separate worked stopper modelled with human head, rep. (breakages), slight traces of abrasion;
the Chokwe have absorbed many European objects such as chairs and teapots that they have reinterpreted according to their own notions. Among the Chokwe both men and women pot but using different techniques. Water containers such as this, incorporating human forms, are made only by men.
Comparing literature
Barley, Nigel, Smashing pots, Feats of clay from Africa, London 1994, p. 117