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Crescent shaped terracotta pot, Solongo People, DRC
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Description
Terracotta
26 cm
10111
Copyright The Artist
€ 2,000.00
Terracotta pot of roughly crescent shape featuring a pair of naively modelled human figures seated on the concave edge, each with arms folded to the abdomen and feet pointing downwards, the female with a flat incised coiffure, the male with a short funnel neck rising from the crown of the head; dull reddish brown glaze
Provenance
Ex Alex Arthur
Publications
Anthropomorhic terraccotta vessels of Zaire, Leo Polfliet, Fred Jahn Munchen, p 40 -
More Information
Period: 1900-1919 Styles / Movements: Traditional Incollect Reference #: 817115
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