Pot avec figure masculine ·  R. D. Congo, Bas Congo, Woyo, Voania de Muba (d.1928) · ID: 3050811

Description

ceramic / terracotta, with engraved signature “Voania Muba”, rest.

Voania was the chief of Muba, a Woyo village on the Atlantic coast. He acquired his skills autodidactically, as no pottery was made in Muba or the surrounding area. Voania never left Muba and worked in seclusion. His nephew, Dumu Dioko, transported his vessels to the large regional markets of Boma and Banana, which were only three days’ walk from Muba.

Voania did not produce his pottery for local and regional use; instead, he catered to the European preference for figurative ceramics. He created pottery from 1888 at the latest until his death in 1928, mostly depicting Europeans sitting or standing on a spherical vessel.

During his lifetime, Voania’s vessels were collected extensively for Western museums. Further works by Voania are published in the exhibition catalogue “Afrikanische Keramik aus der Sammlung Herzog Franz von Bayern”, Munich 2019, pp. 237-239.

L’objet Pot avec figure masculine avec l’ID d’objet 3050811 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 102e vente aux enchères dans 13 avril 2024 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 277 a atteint un prix de vente de 1 500 €.

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Littérature comparée

"Afrikanische Keramik aus der Sammlung Franz von Bayern", Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, München 2019, p. 237-239 Cooksey, Susan et. al., Kongo across the waters, Gainesville 2013, p. 222 f.