African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 8th June 2021
Lot 346
A Tabwa male ancestor figure mipasi
Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £2500
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Description
A Tabwa male ancestor figure mipasi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
with a peaked coiffure having carved linear and notched decoration, the face with fine notched scarification and double lined notched scarification to the torso and arms, with the fingers touching the abdomen, on a circular base with a notched band,
59.5cm high.
cf. Tabwa, The Rising of a New Moon; a Century of Tabwa Art, 1986, p.247, no.180 - male figure from the Riviere Collection, Paris and African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre, Object ao-144257-001 for a male figure with a similar coiffure, stance and base with Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, circa 1980.