Bottle

CultureBarambo

Date20th century

MediumTerracotta

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 × 5 × 5 inches (26.04 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund

Object number90-9

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Fired Brilliance: Ceramic Vessels from Zaire, The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 11-March 16, 1990, no. 47.

Provenance

Maurice-Auguste-Eugène-Charles, Marie-Ghislain, Count Lippens (1875-1956), Belgium, by 1956 [1];

With Marc Leo Félix (Tribal Arts SPRL), Brussels, Belgium, no. 47, by March 1990;

Purchased from Félix by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1990.

NOTES:

[1] According to documentation in the NAMA curatorial file, information likely from Marc Leo Félix. Maurice Lippens was a Belgian who served as Governor General of the Belgian Congo from 1921-1923 and later served as President of the Belgian Senate. He was the author of Notes sur le gouvernement du Congo 1921-1922 (Gand: Herckenrath, 1923).

Published References

Fired Brilliance: Ceramic Vessels from Zaire, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, 1990, unpaginated, (repro.).

Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, December 1990): 2, (repro.).

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