Snuff container · Afrique du Sud, Zoulou · ID: 3041205
Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium
Description
calabash, copper- and brass wire, made from especially hard-shelled pumpkin, wire ornament in circles and semi-circles, number “13”, small round opening with accurately fitting lid;
the wire ends were inserted in holes which were drilled according to the desired pattern, but could not be fixed on the inside. Despite the wire decor is extremely durable. Snuff containers were made throughout Southern Africa, in part because of the widely-held assumption that snuff could be used to mediate relations between the ancestors and their descendants. The wirework decorations commonly used to make these containers varied from one area to another.
L’objet Snuff container avec l’ID d’objet 3041205 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 84th Tribal Art Auction dans 5 novembre 2016 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 523 a atteint un prix de vente de 800 €.
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Littérature comparée
Ginzberg, Marc, Afrikanische Formen, Mailand 2001, p. 120 Conru, Kevin (ed.), The Art of Southeast Africa, Milan 2002, ill. 55
Publications
Mestdagh, Patrick & Ondine (ed.), Spheres plaisir, Brussels 2013