Lot 99 D α

TWO TEKE POTTERY VESSELS

Auction 1167 - overview Brussels
02.09.2021, 14:00 - Art of Africa, The Pacific and The Americas
Estimate: 800 € - 1.200 €

TWO TEKE POTTERY VESSELS
Democratic Republic of the Congo

34 and 36 cm. high

Cf. Notes Analytiques sur les Collections Ethnographiques du Musée du Congo, Vol.II, Les Industries Indigènes, Fascicule 1, La Ceramique, Brussels, 1907, pl.X, fig.160
Two further vessels similar to the incised and painted vessel were donated to Tervuren in 1938 by the Museum of Native Life in Léopoldville (EO.0.0.38406 and 7) and are recorded as originating in the Bandundu area.

Provenance

Alain Guisson, Brussels (for the unpainted one)