SOLD / SOLD! MC1422 Kipona Caryatid Stool LUBA Shankadi Stool Congo DRC

This style is really rare, the only similar stool I spotted is lot 142, in the catalog Tribal Art, Africa, Lempertz brussels, 2007 (photo on request)

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

The Luba are a large people of eastern DRC. Their seats with caryatids, their carriers of cups, staffs of chiefs, 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 47.5 cm

CONDITION: Bad, many restorations, 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)

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

- 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

This beautiful Luba Shankadi stool has a rare stylized, cubist, almost Art Deco architecture

This style is really rare, the only similar stool I have spotted is the lot 142, in the catalog Tribal Art, Africa, Lempertz brussels, 2007 (picture on request)

Stools are for the Luba the most important symbols of political power


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
ETHNIC GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGIN: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 18 3/4 inches high
CONDITION: Bad, many restorations, but the stool is still very solid
Please have a look on the pictures