African, Oceanic & Art of the Americas - 28 Apr 2022
A Kinshasa carved group of two figures
A Kinshasa carved group of two figures
of a male seated on a stool, with a finely engraved multi-lobed and crested coiffure and with a beard and wearing anklet with a kneeling female offering a bowl, the base inscribed MALELEXE/VILLE MISSION ST. JEAN, the underside numbered 88., with a paper label Wood Carving Carving from one piece of wood Bought in Elizabethville, (Kinshasa) in 1932...
22.5cm high, 32cm long.