Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition

Timed Online Auction, 2 - 24 February 2025

Innovation & Tradition
About the Session

‘Woven Legacies: Innovation & Tradition’ highlights a diverse range of materials, techniques, and processes from various regions, including Southern, Central and Western Africa. These works coalesce utility, aesthetics and cultural identity. From the tactile threads of textiles to the intricate blending of natural fibres in baskets and the sculptural forms of steel, copper, brass and beads, the concept of weaving is reimagined as a metaphor for connection, storytelling and the passing on of tradition.


Sold for

ZAR 7 035
Lot 43
  • Unrecorded artist, Kuba Peoples; Ceremonial Kuba calabash
  • Unrecorded artist, Kuba Peoples; Ceremonial Kuba calabash


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 7 035

About this Item

Democratic Republic of Congo 20th century
Ceremonial Kuba calabash
decorated with black and red beads and cowry shells in geometric patterns
72cm high, 32cm diameter

Notes

Ceremonial calabashes such as this example hold cultural and symbolic significance, particularly for the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While the geometric patterns represent a deep connection to spirituality, status and identity, the black and red colours often symbolise the dualities that characterise life and death and the transitional stages of initiation.

Provenance

Design Afrika Collection

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