Ceremonial chiefs stool ·  D. R. Congo, Chokwe/Lwena · ID: 3036603

Description

wood, reddish brown patina and black paint in effective change, anthropomorphic figure, with angled legs and arms supporting a small round seat, surmounted by a proportionally small head with fine grooved coiffure, which reminds of the Luena, feet and hands neglected, bladebones and backbone marked by grooves, slightly dam., minor missing parts (rim of the seat), cracks at the same place, rep. (knee of the right leg), base;
especial shapely through the simplification of body and limbs as well as their symmetical arrangement.
That kind of stools where a head or a part of the figure projects beyond the seat can be traced back to Luba influence from the middle of the 19th century.

L’objet Ceremonial chiefs stool avec l’ID d’objet 3036603 a fait partie de l’enchère 76th tribal art auction en 22 mars 2014 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 550.

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Littérature comparée

Bocola, Sandro (Hg.), Afrikanische Sitze, München, New York 1994, ill. 112 Scharf, Dieter (Hg.), Sehen lernen - Eine Sammlung afrikanischer Figuren, Köln 1999, p. 96, ill. 37