Vessel cover/ altarpiece with two anthropomorphic heads · D. R. Congo, Azande / Mangbetu, Master Mbitim · ID: 3047170
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Adam Prout, Worcestershire, Great BritainSize
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.