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Description : A Kisanji, wood and iron lamellaphone, engraved decoration Capuita Symbols on vertical friezes, Angolan - Tshokwe (related peoples), 20th C. (1st quarter), later varnishing, faults and defects, great patina wear, offered by Father Robalino, Superior of the Mission of Our Lady of Victories of the Benedictines - Luena (former Luso), Moxico Province. Notes: Provenance: Collection of Engenheio Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Fig. 3 in the notes printed A Escultura Tribal dos Povos Banto updated version, from 1995, of the work with the title A Escultura Negro-Africana Vista à Luz da Filosofia Banta, which the author presented in 1971, for the XXII Floral Games of Huambo Town Hall (former Nova Lisboa) - Angola, p. 11. Original work available at q=/bchuambo/bchuambo-026&p=10, consulted on March 16, 2023 at 11:16. Item number 145, mentioned in the notebook of the collector «Angola - Arte Negra, Relação e descrição das peças» identified in it as «Quissanje Txa-Nbunda»: The base of the quissanje has edges turned upwards as used by the Bundas, however I cannot say that this item is from this ethnic group. ...]. Piece offered by Father Robalino [...] Superior of the Mission of Our Lady of Victories - Luena (former Luso), Moxico province [Luena], of the Benedictines, who didn't tell me where he had picked it up. (1972). Other kisanjis are represented in DIAS, Jorge (direc.) - Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1968, s/p, nº 158, in SANTOS, Soraia Ferreira (coord.) - A Herança dos Povos do Sul de Angola. Lubango: Museu Regional da Huíla, 2018, p. 57, nºs inv. 2003.R.247 e 2002.R.252, in FELIX, Marc Leo. - 100 Peoples of Zaire and Their Sculpture: The Handbook”. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation, 1987, p. 97, nº 15, and in BASTIN, Marie-Louise. La sculpture Tshokwe”. Arcueil: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982, p. 244, nº 167., Dim. - 24,2 x 15,3 x 1,3 cm
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About the lot N° 12
Title : A Kisanji, Period : 2023
Size : 15,3 x 1,3 cm
Notes : Antiguidades e Obras de ArteDiversos
Condition report : later varnishing, faults and defects, great patina wear
Cabral Moncada Leilões, auctioneer, Lisbon, PT It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : African Art - Elísio Romariz dos Santos Silva Collection | Antiques and Works of Art, Rare Books
Sale date : 25 Sep 2023 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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