Ɵ Tabwa Scepter, Democratic Republic of the Congo
About 1880
Wood
H. 55 cm
Tabwa Scepter, Democratic Republic of the Congo
H. 21 5/8 in 20 000/35 000
Provenance:
- Collection Annie and Jean-Pierre Jernander, Brussels
- Quay-Lombrail Paris, 26 June 1996, lot 15
- Lance Entwistle, London
- Private collection
Publication:
- Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat and Lucien Stephan, L'Art Africain, L'Art et les Grandes Civilizations, 18, Paris, Editions Mazenod, 1988. English translation: Art of Africa. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993, fig.1015
- Evan Maurer and Allen Roberts, Tabwa: The Rising of a New Moon, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1985, fig. 278.
Exhibition:
- Tabwa - The Rising of a New Moon - A Century of Tabwa Art: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January - March 1986, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April - August 1986, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, September - October 1986.
This spatula-shaped scepter is decorated at the top with a very beautiful female figure, standing on her legs, arms separated from the body, and hands placed on the hips. The face is in a very beautiful classical ethnic style. The back is decorated with a double row of scarification marks on either side of the spine. It should be noted here the extreme rarity of this type of object of which the example of the Jernander collection, is one of the greatest successes.
Ɵ This lot is in temporary importation
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