Zemanek-Münster

Vessel cover/ altarpiece with two anthropomorphic heads

D. R. Congo, Azande / Mangbetu, Master Mbitim
sold EUR 700
Provenance
Adam Prout, Worcestershire, Great Britain
Size
H: 11,5 cm
B: 20,5 cm
H: 4.5 inch
B: 8.1 inch

Description

ceramic/ terracotta, remains of an old collection label

This object is the work of the Azande ceramic artist Mbitim, who worked in the 1930s in the village of Lirangu, near Yambio in southern Sudan.

Through Europeans working at the Lirangu Sleeping Sickness Center, his works found their way into English and American collections. Some of them are published by Schildkrout & Keim, 1990, p. 230 f.


Comparing literature

Schildkrout, Enid & Curtis Keim, African Reflections, Seattle, London, New York 1990, p. 230 f.

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