Gordon Reece - The Meeting of Cultures - 30th April 2026

Lot 1027

A TABWA HEADREST

Hammer £533

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Description

A TABWA HEADREST
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
with twin figure supports with elaborate coiffures and forehead scarifications, to a domed base,
22cm high

Provenance
English Private Collection
Gordon Reece Collection

cf. Roberts and Maurer, Tabwa, 1986, p.190-191, No. 71 and 71a, illustrating two known examples of this model, one in the Ethnologisches Museum (SMPK) Berlin and the other in the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium