A RARE WOODEN KARYATIDE STOOL

Description:

Luba Hemba, Democratic Republic of the Congo
H. 50,3 cm
Wood with brown-red patination. The caryatid stools have a long tradition among the Luba and Hemba. They are usually female figures who support the round seat in a standing or sitting position. This, however, is a rarer variant with a male figure.
Former important South German private collection, acquired at Nagel, Stuttgart, sale 35T, 7 November 2000, lot 617, from the collection of Prof. Ferdinand Herrmann (1904-1974), curator of the ethnological collection of the von Portheim Foundation Heidelberg until 1969, honorary professor of ethnology at the University of Heidelberg in 1971 - cracks in the area of the base