Zulu Snuff Container/Hairpin, South Africa
Horn, probably greater kudu antelope (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), wood
11 3/8in (29cm)

Provenance
Kevin Conru, Brussels
Marc and Denyse Ginzberg Collection, New York
Sotheby's, Paris, 10 September 2007, Lot 116
Private Princely Collection

Literature
Ginzberg, Marc, African Forms, Skira, Milano, 2000, p. 118

As noted by Marc Ginzberg (Ibid., caption), 'Long-pronged bottles like these were, in their conception, the fantasies of the Zulu oeuvre, perhaps based on a local bird, the Paradise Whydah, and were, in their execution, at the pinnacle of African craftsmanship.'

Minor nicks and abrasions.