Kuba - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Lot 166

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120 - 180 EUR
Kuba - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Lot 166
Kuba - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO Large bowl decorated with ancestral relief and intaglio carving. The forms are supple and balanced, and the whole bears witness to a great mastery of gesture. Wood, old honey-red patina in places, minor consolidation and native restoration on two lateral cracks. Height 14.6 cm. Width: 14 cm. Provenance : - Private collection, Paris These objects, although utilitarian in nature, were invested with strong symbolic power and reserved for the elite within the Kuba royal courts.
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