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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Bonhams | New York | AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART | 113 | $****** - ****** | Rare and Monumental Lidded Vessel, Swazi, Swaziland, or Nguni or Zulu, South Africa |
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57.1 cm (22.5 in)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, November 20, 1990, Lot 195
American Private Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southern Africa, 17 April 2011 - 26 February 2012
Petridis (Ibid.) comments that this vessel 'is a true feat of virtuosity on the part of its maker. Karel Nel (in Bassani et al, The Power of Form: African Art from the Horstmann Collection, Milan, 2002, p. 242) has written with regard to a vessel in the Horstmann Collection can also be applied to the [work] illustrated here: "the low relief patterns have an ease and fluency one would associate with the work of clay." Containers wrapped in an integrally carved surrounding structure [as in the present work] are extremely rare. Still, because the few known examples of this unusual type of vessel--the majority of which are preserved in public institutions in Europe and South African--are stylistically and technically so similar, it has been suggested that they may have been the work of a single workshop, if not artist (Sandra Klopper in Phillips, et. al, Africa: The Art of a Continent, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Munich/New York, Prestel, 1995, p. 223).'
