Rare tabouret "mpona" ou "kipona" ·  R. D. Congo, Luba / Kusu · ID: 3046448

Description

wood, rep. in several places

Only few nonfigurative Luba stools consisting of two platforms mediated by four outwardly bowing supports are known in western collections (cf. Nooter-Roberts, 1998, p.160). It is thought that these stools may have been predecessors of the female caryatid stools for which the Luba are widely known.

This stool, to which a small figure in the centre has already been added to the original form, could represent a transitional form. The only comparable example published in Perspectives, 1987, p. 118 (see also AHDRC 0032141).

Littérature comparée

Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 160 Susan Vogel et. al., Perspectives, Angles on African Art, New York 1987, p. 118

Publications

AHDRC: 0170776