Tabourets à cariatides LUBA
Les tabourets sont pour les Luba les symboles les plus importants du pouvoir politique. Leur nom local est Kipona, ou Kihona, ou encore Lupona
D'après Mary Nooter Roberts, les sièges stimulent la "mémoire locale", ils situent le pouvoir et la mémoire dans l'espace
L'appelation de trône est pertinente puisque que leur usage est indispensable à l'intronisation du monarque (Daniel Hourdé, Atlantes et caryatides).
Tabouret à caryatide LUBA de l'est
Superbe Tabouret cariatide LUBA Shankadi "Art Deco" cariatid stool (vendu)
- LUBA, Visions d'Afrique, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts et Allen F. Roberts, 2006
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996
- LE MAÎTRE DE BULI, Maître isolé ou «atelier», Essai de catalogue raisonné Hemba, Luba, Claude-Henri Pirat, Tribal Arts, le monde de l'art tribal N°10, Eté 1996
- Sièges de l'Afrique centrale, Donatienne Van Wassenhove, Tervuren, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1996
- Design en Afrique. S'asseoir, se coucher et rêver, Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Viviane Baeke, Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, Rahim Danto Barry, Joëlle Busca, Éditions Dapper, 2012.
Lire aussi
Lupona (Tabouret Royal) Kayumba-Museka (Tabouret cariatide), Adenike Cosgrove, www.imodara.com
D'après Sotheby's (Sotheby"s Paris 30/11/10) seulement 6 sièges de ce type ont été répertoriés
ENGLISH
Greek and Roman sculptors regularly used this symbolism
Etymology
According to Vitruvius, a Roman architect who lived in the 1st century BC, their name comes from the town of Karyes (near Sparta). The latter having allied itself with the Persians, the inhabitants were exterminated in -368 by the other Greeks, and their women, renowned for their strength and their beauty, reduced to slavery and condemned to carry the heaviest burdens.
But caryatids as architectural elements existed long before this event.
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In black Africa too, caryatids are very popular
They can be the basis of a neckrest, a drum, a divinatory cup, a stool.
It is observed in particular among the Dogon of Mali, the Senoufo of Côte d'Ivoire, the Baga of Guinea, the Yoruba of Nigeria, the Bamileke of Cameroon. Also in Central Africa, among the Yaka, the Tshokwe, the Mangbetu, the Songye, the Hemba, and of course among the Luba
The oldest known seats of the Luba were not figurative, they consisted of two trays connected by four uprights, (De Grunne, p7; Van Wassenhove, p52)
It seems that the golden age of caryatids began in the 19th century
LUBA Cariatid stools
Old plaster reproduction of a "Master of Buli" stool *
Stools are for the Luba the most important symbols of political power
Their local name is Kipona, or Kihona, or Lupona.
For François Neyt, They make the link between the power of the chief and that of the ancestors and geniuses
According to Mary Nooter Roberts, seats stimulate "local memory", they locate power and memory in space
The appellation of throne is relevant since their use is essential to the enthronement of the monarch (Daniel Hourdé, Atlanteans and caryatids).
The LUBA empire was a constellation of small kingdoms and chiefdoms of Luba or "Lubaised" peoples, with very different styles from region to region
Thus, seven style centers have been referenced by François Neyt
Exceptionnel tabouret à cariatide LUBA
Exceptionnal LUBA stool (sold)
MC1881 Tabouret à cariatide LUBA stool
Superbe Tabouret cariatide LUBA Shankadi "Art Deco" cariatid stool (sold)
Luba Kanyok stool
Luba Shankadi stool (sold)
Ancienne reproduction en plâtre d'un tabouret du Maître de Buli *
BIBLIOGRAPHIE - BIBLIOGRAPHY :
- LUBA, Visions d'Afrique, Editions 5 Continents, Mary Nooter Roberts et Allen F. Roberts, 2006
- MEMORY, Luba Art and the Making of History, Mary Nooter Roberts, 1996
- Le Maître de Buli, Maître isolé ou «atelier», Essai de catalogue raisonné Hemba, Luba, Claude-Henri Pirat, Tribal Arts, le monde de l'art tribal N°10, Eté 1996
- Le Maître de Buli Réouverture du dossier, Claude-Henri Pirat, Tribal Arts, le monde de l'art tribal N°26, Eté 2001
- Sièges de l'Afrique centrale, Donatienne Van Wassenhove, Tervuren, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1996
- Chef-d'oeuvre du "Maître de Buli", Masterpiece by the "Master of Buli", François Neyt, Bernard de Grunne, Sotheby's, 2010
- Design en Afrique. S'asseoir, se coucher et rêver, Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Viviane Baeke, Christiane Owusu-Sarpong, Rahim Danto Barry, Joëlle Busca, Éditions Dapper, 2012.