Seated bowl bearer "mboko" · R. D. Congo, Luba · ID: 3038770
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Provenance
Artcurial, Paris, 7 June 2004, lot 102Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, elongated limbs and striking big hands, a string of glass beads around the hips, unusual facial features with slanting eyes, elaborate carved eyelashes and smiling mouth, coiffure in four knob-shaped lobes, rest. (breakage left leg, chest), small missing parts (coiffure), fine cracks, traces of abrasion
Littérature comparée
Neyt, Francois, Luba, Aan de Bronnen van de Zaire, Paris 1994, p. 28