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LUBA superb cariatid stool seat figure statue Congo
LUBA superb cariatid stool seat figure statue Congo
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  • Title: LUBA superb cariatid stool seat figure statue Congo African Tribal Art 1331
  • Additional Information: CONGO DRC
    Superb LUBA caryatid stool
    This superb stool presents a very particular architecture, where the shoulders and the chest merge in a spectacular way, the latter emerging at the elbow.
    This style is rare, but an headrest from the Museum of Tervuren has very similar characteristics, it is published in "La tête dans les Étoiles", see bibliography)
    (Photo on request)
    Another Luba stool also presents this particularity in "Atlantes & Caryatides" page 33
    According to its former owner, this stool was harvested in a village located a few tens of kilometers from Kongolo, on the edge of Songye country.
    Which would not be at all surprising, because this work is a vigorous sculpture stylistically close to the Songye art, powerful and cubist, softened by the delicacy of the Luba artists
    From a private collection
    Characteristics:
    TYPE OF OBJECT: Stool, seat, tabouret
    ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
    ORIGINE: Congo Drc
    MATERIAL: Wood
    DIMENSIONS: About 17 1/4 inches high
    CONDITION: Correct
    Please have a look on the pictures

    BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :
    - La tête dans les Etoiles, Pierre Loos, Thomas Bayet et Sophie Caltaux, Bruneaf 2012, page 47, inv. 551)
    - 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
    - LUBA, aux sources du Zaïre, François NEYT, Editions du Musée Dapper, 1993
    - LUBA, Visions d'Afrique, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts et Allen F. Roberts, 2006
    - MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996

    Reserve: $2,800.00

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    LUBA superb cariatid stool seat figure statue Congo

    Estimate $4,500 - $5,500
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    Starting Price $2,800
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