Standing male ancestor figure "singiti" · R. D. Congo, Hemba · ID: 3038832
Vendu
7 000 €
Provenance
Cornelis Pieter Meulendijk, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsChristie’s, South Kensington, 22 October 1980, lot 133
Victor Skipp, Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Museum, England
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