Two calabashes with stopper
Tanzanie
Vendu
240 €
Provenance
Walter Hekster, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsTaille
H: 24,5 cm (a)
26,5 cm (b)
H: 9.6 inch (a)
10.4 inch (b)
Description
pumpkin, wood, dark- and blackish brown patina, a) Kaguru, waisted form, the spherical corpus coated with fur, stopper in shape of a human head, white glass bead eyes, dam. (breakage), minor missing part; b) Zaramo, the waisted middle adorned by strings of polychrome glass beads, wooden stopper carved with janus head, crowned by a big red bead (pressed in mass), slightly dam.