Lot 51
  • 51

A KUBA CUP, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

Provenance

Julius Carlebach, New York
Chaim and Renee Gross, New York, acquired from the above in 1948

Condition

Good condition overall; loss (3/4 of an inch) and two age cracks on upper rim; two age cracks on bottom; fine medium brown patina; partially lustrous.
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Catalogue Note

For another cup of identical iconography previously in the collects ion of Gross's friend and fellow artist Jacques Lipchitz cf. Museum of Primitive Art (1960: cat. 29); for a third closely-related cup see Segy (1958: pl. 96).