Beautiful spoon ·  South Africa, Zulu/Tsonga · ID: 3040110

Description

wood, oval deepened bowl, carved with a long handle in openwork design: intricately carved in shape of five spirally screwed struts, knob in form of an anthropomorphic head in pierced oval frame, decorative change of colours from middle brown to blackened sections in pokerwork, slightly dam. (rim of the bowl), crack (knob), rep. (bowl), base

Littérature comparée

Winizki, Ernst, Afrikanische Löffel, Zürich 1990, ill. 106 Klopper, Sandra et. al., The Art of Southern Africa, Milan 2007, no. 116