A TSONGA OR NORTHERN NGUNI ZOOMORPHIC NECKREST, South Africa

Julius Carlebach, New York
Chaim and Renee Gross, New York, acquired from the above in 1950

Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art collects ion of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross, 1976 (additional venues: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, November 5, 1976 - January 2, 1977; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, March 27 - May 1, 1977; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, May 17 - July 17, 1977)

Arnold Rubin, The Sculptor's Eye, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 80, cat. 72
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy I. Nooter, African Art in American collects ions, Washington and London, 1989, p. 545, fig. 1467

Fair condition overall; proper right hind leg broken and restored; dent on the proper left side of the torso, small cracks on the reverse; exceptionally fine dark brown patina; beaded string extremely fragile with part of the cord restored.
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For a closely-related neckrest cf. Sotheby's, Paris, December 5, 2006, lot 227.