SOLD / SOLD ! MC1426 Superb Caryatid Stool Luba Stool Congo DRC

English description below

CONGO DRC

LUBA
Caryatid stool

Superb seat of the Eastern Luba
The female character exudes great serenity

Numerous typical scarifications and superb hairstyle with crossed braids

Stools are for the Luba the most important symbols of political power. Their local name is Kipona or Kihona.

The Luba are a large people of eastern DRC. Their caryatid seats, cup carriers, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and cult statues are very famous and among the most prized objects in African Art.

Provenance: Private collection

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Seat, stool
ETHNIC GROUP: Luba, Baluba
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Congo DRC
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: Height 41 cm

CONDITION: Fair - Bad, some dents, including a relatively recent one on the edge of the seat, numerous cracks. See also the right arm (last photo) but the stool remains very solid
(see photos)

BIBLIOGRAPHY - BIBLIOGRAPHY:

- Head in the Stars, Pierre Loos, Thomas Bayet and Sophie Caltaux, Bruneaf 2012, page 47, inv. 551)

- Luba Hemba Caryatids, for a history of the art of caryatid seats in the Luba and Lubaized styles, Bernard de Grunne, exhibition catalogue Parcours des Mondes, Paris, 2017

- Atlantes and Caryatids. Thrones of Black Africa, Galerie Ratton - Hourdé, 2004

- LUBA, at the sources of Zaire, François NEYT, Editions du Musée Dapper, 1993

- LUBA, Visions of Africa, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, 2006
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996

- Tribal Art, Africa, Lempertz brussels, 2007 

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CONGO DRC

Beautiful LUBA Caryatid Stool

Stools are for the Luba the most important symbols of political power
Their local name is Kipona or Kihona

The Luba are a great people in eastern DRC. 
Their caryatid seats, their cup holders, chiefs' sticks, arrow holders, adzes and ancestral statues are very famous and among the most valued objects in African Art.

Provenance: private collection

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Stool, seat, stool
ETHNICAL GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGIN: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 16 1/4 inches high
CONDITION: Medium - Bad: a lot of defects, including a relatively recent one on the edge of the seat, numerous cracks
See also the right arm (last photo) but the stool is still very solid
(see pictures)