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LUBA superb cariatid stool tabouret Congo African Tribal Art 1426

Item Details

Description

CONGO DRC
Beautiful LUBA Caryatid Stool
Beautiful seat of the eastern Luba
The female character exudes great serenity
Many typical scarifications and superb hairstyle with crossed braids
Stools are for the Luba the most important symbols of political power
Their local name is Kipona or Kihona
The Luba are a great people in eastern DRC.
Their caryatid seats, their cup holders, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and ancestral statues are very famous and among the most valued objects in African Art.
Provenance: private collection
Characteristics:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Stool, seat, tabouret
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGINE: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 16 1/4 inches high
CONDITION: Medium - Bad: a lot of defects, including a relatively recent one on the edge of the seat, numerous cracks
See also the right arm (last photo) but the stool is still very solid
(see pictures)
BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- LUBA, aux sources du Zaire, François NEYT,
Editions du Musee Dapper, 1993.
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996
- Cariatides Luba Hemba, pour une histoire de l'art des sièges à cariatides des styles Luba et Lubaisés, Bernard de Grunne, catalogue d'exposition Parcours des Mondes, Paris, 2017
- Atlantes et Caryatides.Trônes d'Afrique Noire, Galerie Ratton - Hourdé, 2004
- Tribal Art, Africa, Lempertz brussels, 2007

Reserve: $1,800.00

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