A Fine Old Kuba Portrait Cup with Designs ~ Ex Budrose

A carved wooden Kuba portrait cup with incised and raised designs, openwork handle and a well handled surface patina. Kuba peoples, DRC/ Congo, central Africa. The cup measures 7.25 inches tall. Prove

Elegant and refined old Kuba cup with handsome portrait face on vessel and small ancestor figure on the handle. Decorated with fine incised linear designs and a octagon shaped base. Kuba peoples, Cong

A very finely carved old wooden anthropomorphic vessel with elaborate incised designs around the cup edges and on the male torso, realistic facial features and a deep well handled surface patina. Kuba

A very finely carved old wooden Kuba cup with incised designs and a charming old Children's doll, also from the Kuba peoples. The cup measures 4 x 4.5 inches and the Doll head measures 4.5 inches. Pro

A very finely carved wooden vessel with a dramatic and realistic face and embellished with incised designs. The cup shows much wear and field use, and measures 7.25 x 3 3/4 inches. Kuba peoples, DRC /

A very finely carved wooden mask with attached headdress and wonderfully painted geometric designs throughout. This mask represented a wise older man at boys’ initiations. One of the principal Kuba

A carved wooden face mask with dark painted geometric designs and stylized horns around the eyes. The mask is adorned with a raffia grass headdress and crown of feathers. Kuba peoples, DRC/Congo, cent

A carved wooden flat face mask that was once part of a larger helmet mask, painted with linear designs and organic earthen pigments. Kuba peoples , Congo, Africa. Provenance: Ex Irwin Cemic collection

A Finely carved box with tight fitted lid and featuring raised and incised designs. Boxes such as these were for storing tukula, a reddish powder made from the bark of a tree. It was used for body and

A early and finely carved wooden staff featuring a classic image of a Kuba mask like face with carved brow and raised scar designs. The staff has a deep well handled surface patina suggesting years of

A fine old carved wooden Kuba Itoombwa Divination implement in zoomorphic form with incised designs and some signs of light handling. Such divination tools were considered to be quite accurate when us

A very fine Old initiation mask from the Southern Bushoong/Kete peoples of the DRC/ Congo, central Africa. A very interesting example that still retains its original painted designs, often these masks

This is a very fine old and field used carved wooden mask with precise incised linear designs, raised facial scars and elaborate coiffure. Note the well handled surface patina and signs of wear and us

A Fine woven grass and beaded textile hat with a charming super-structure of a house on the top of the hat. Embellished with cowrie shells and old glass beads, all set into linear designs. Kuba people

A carved wooden helmet mask adorned with copper sheet, animal hide and embellished with numerous glass beads and textiles. The Bwoom mask was worn at boys initiations where it would represent the natu

A highly stylized mask with curled horns and large flattened nose. Carved from a hard wood and painted with geometric tribal motifs. This mask type, called "Pwoom Itok" or "Ishen Maal" is occasionally

Islamic Persian Copper and Enamel Cup c.19th century AD. Size 3 1/8 inches diameter x 2 3/4 inches high. Fine Copper cup decorated with enamel dotted design. Ex Dr Joseph Touma, VA USA. Ex Christies.

Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta cup c.1st-2nd millennium BC. Size 4 3/8 inches diameter, 4 7/8 inches high. Fine Terracotta cup cone shape, decorated with ornate design. Ex Private New York city colle

A Fine Old Kuba Bwoom mask embellished with various seeds and beads, animal hide ( now decayed) and hand hammered copper sheet. The bwoom is one of three types of royal Kuba masks, all of which are tr

A carved wooden ceremonial dance mask with carved and painted incised linear designs as well as painted geometric motifs, well handled and weathered surface suggesting good age and field use. The mask

This is a very fine old wood sculpture of an important chieftain of Kuba kingdom. The figure is carved from a dense heavy wood with ornate designs and a proud stance. Kuba peoples, Congo, Africa. The

A carved wooden Musical instrument with incised linear designs, a carved wooden Hand on the handle and goat skin drum head pegged onto the drum to act as the membrane. A well used instrument, the head

A carved wooden pipe bowl with metal (aluminum) lined bowl and a traditional Ancestor face adorned with linear designs and cross hatching. The Pipe Bowl measures 3.5 x 3 inches ( 4.5 inches tall on cu

A very fine old carved wooden helmet mask with wonderful exaggerated form and signs of field use and wear, over many years. This is likely a Bongo mask, which would appear during initiation rites and