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Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"

R. D. Congo, Hemba
Vendu 7 000 €
Provenance
Cornelis Pieter Meulendijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Christie’s, South Kensington, 22 October 1980, lot 133
Victor Skipp, Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Museum, England
Taille
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, remains of black paint, bearded face with regular facial features and characteristic coiffure, beautiful modelled body with prominent genital, carrying a hoe over the left shoulder, beautiful detail: how the fingers are closed around the shaft of the hoe, fragmentary (right forearm as well as feet and base in the front area missing), cracks, abrasion of paint, base


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