A very important Luba chiefs stool with caryatid.
Around 1900, wood, 56 cm high. The female caryatid gives expression to the Luba concept of the female body as a spiritual receptacle transferring divine kingship. The elaborate skin ornamentation and coiffure serves as a metaphor for the prestige and refinement that Luba rulers disseminate within society. On the image (pre 1930) we can still see a collier with blue tradebeads that would have embellished this caryatid in the same way as they were worn by important members of the court and provide spiritual protection for their owners. The beads would have been highly valuable and were probably kept when the Luba sold the stool. Stools in this particular style can be clearly linked to a small corpus that appears before 1929 around the Mwanza mission post in Luba-Shankadi.(VJ)
Provenance:
Jean-Paul Agogué;
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels;
John Giltsoff, London/New York/Girona. A photograph of the reverse of'the stool and staff of office of sub-chief Kafuiza' (The Collection of W. F. P. Burton, Johannesburg, 1992:#41) shows this stool in traditional usage prior to 1930.
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
28.06.2023 - 15:21
- Realized price: **
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EUR 13,000.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 12,000.- to EUR 14,000.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 10,000.-
A very important Luba chiefs stool with caryatid.
Around 1900, wood, 56 cm high. The female caryatid gives expression to the Luba concept of the female body as a spiritual receptacle transferring divine kingship. The elaborate skin ornamentation and coiffure serves as a metaphor for the prestige and refinement that Luba rulers disseminate within society. On the image (pre 1930) we can still see a collier with blue tradebeads that would have embellished this caryatid in the same way as they were worn by important members of the court and provide spiritual protection for their owners. The beads would have been highly valuable and were probably kept when the Luba sold the stool. Stools in this particular style can be clearly linked to a small corpus that appears before 1929 around the Mwanza mission post in Luba-Shankadi.(VJ)
Provenance:
Jean-Paul Agogué;
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels;
John Giltsoff, London/New York/Girona. A photograph of the reverse of'the stool and staff of office of sub-chief Kafuiza' (The Collection of W. F. P. Burton, Johannesburg, 1992:#41) shows this stool in traditional usage prior to 1930.
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Online auction |
| Date: | 28.06.2023 - 15:21 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 24.06. - 28.06.2023 |
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