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A Pere figure Lubero territory, Northern Kivu Province, Eastern Congo forest, standing on heavy feet with notched toes, the legs carved with stacked double-egg form knees and hips, supporting an attenuated barrel-form torso with projecting navel, the hands held out in front with arms outstretched, leading to the tapered shoulders, the neck adorned with a notched, disc necklace supporting a spherical head with upward looking face, with a squared, open projecting mouth, exaggerated lumpy nose and circular projecting eyes in a sunken orbital cavity with shell inlay for pupils, dark patina, with fiber belt around the hips, mounted on a wood base. ht. 15 in. Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts; Bonham's, New York, May 12, 2011, lot 2136; Joe Carr collection, Texas; Private collection, The Netherlands. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Pere figure Lubero territory, Northern Kivu Province, Eastern Congo forest, standing on heavy feet with notched toes, the legs carved with stacked double-egg form knees and hips, supporting an attenuated barrel-form torso with projecting navel, the hands held out in front with arms outstretched, leading to the tapered shoulders, the neck adorned with a notched, disc necklace supporting a spherical head with upward looking face, with a squared, open projecting mouth, exaggerated lumpy nose and circular projecting eyes in a sunken orbital cavity with shell inlay for pupils, dark patina, with fiber belt around the hips, mounted on a wood base. ht. 15 in. Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts; Bonham's, New York, May 12, 2011, lot 2136; Joe Carr collection, Texas; Private collection, The Netherlands. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing