SOLD / SOLD! MC1331 Superb caryatid stool LUBA stool Congo DRC

This style is rare, but a neck support from the Tervuren Museum has very similar characteristics, It is published in "La tête dans les Étoiles" (see bibliography)

Photo on request

Another Luba seat also presents this particularity in "Atlantes et Caryatids" page 33

According to its former owner, this stool would have been collected in a village located a few dozen kilometers from Kongolo, on the edge of Songye country.

Which would not be at all surprising, because this work is a vigorous sculpture stylistically close to Songye art which is powerful and cubist, softened by the delicacy of the Luba artists.

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 44 cm

CONDITION: OK
(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

- Atlanteans 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

--------------------------

CONGO DRC

This superb stool presents a very particular architecture, where the shoulders and the chest merge in a spectacular way, the latter emerging at the elbow.

This style is rare, but an headrest from the Museum of Tervuren has very similar characteristics, it is published in "La tête dans les Étoiles", see bibliography)
(Picture on request)

Another Luba stool also presents this particularity in "Atlanteans & Caryatids" page 33

According to its former owner, this stool was harvested in a village located a few tens of kilometers from Kongolo, on the edge of Songye country.

Which would not be at all surprising, because this work is a vigorous sculpture stylistically close to the Songye art, powerful and cubist, softened by the delicacy of the Luba artists

Provenance: private collection

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Stool, seat, stool
ETHNIC GROUP: Luba Baluba
ORIGIN: Congo Drc
MATERIAL: Wood
DIMENSIONS: About 17 1/4 inches high
CONDITION: Fair
Please have a look on the pictures