Vessel "abusua kuruwa" · Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3035315
sold
EUR 240
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch
Description
brown, partly blackened clay, with long neck, a stopper in shape of a cocoon (proverb: “a peculiar person’s character is not easily to be determined”), dam., missing parts, fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
for centuries the deceased of the Akan received a more or less elaborate decorated family vessel “abusua kuruwa.
Comparing literature
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Keramik aus Schwarz-Afrika und Alt-Amerika, Zürich 1985, p. 65