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Vessel "abusua kuruwa" ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3035319

Vendu 800 €
Provenance
German Private Collection, Hamburg, collected in situ (1959 - 1965)

Description

blackish brown clay, several motifs modelled in relief on the body of the vessel, lid in the shape of a disc-shaped head with ringed neck in the Kwahu style, min. dam., traces of abrasion;
for centuries the deceased of the Akan received a more or less elaborate decorated family vessel “abusua kuruwa”.


Littérature comparée

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Keramik aus Schwarz-Afrika und Alt-Amerika, Zürich 1985, p. 71


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