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Mid-Century Chokwe Ceremonial Seat
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Denia, ES
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Elegant chief's chair in carved wood and decorated with numerous characters. It is decorated on the back with mask of …
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Elegant chief's chair in carved wood and decorated with numerous characters. It is decorated on the back with mask of civilizing ancestor and under the seat,with scenes of daily life. Quality work. First half of the 20th century
thie chokwe chair, a portable symbol of chiefly authority, adopts the design and construction techniques of european furniture, which portuguese traders introduced to central africa in the sixteenth century. Chokwe artists carved their earliest four-legged chairs from single pieces of wood; as a result, these tended to be relatively compact and small in scale. This chair was constructed of separate pieces of wood joined together in the european fashion, its individual rungs and top rail embellished with carvings prior to assembly.
at a time when chokwe people in the area of present-day angola and democratic republic of the congo were besieged by the european slave trade, chokwe artists radically appropriated designs from european furniture. Modeled after seventeenth-century european chairs, the portable “throne” became a symbol of chokwe chiefly authority. By constructing this chair out of separate pieces of wood in the european fashion, its sculptor was able to depict figurative scenes characterizing daily and ritual life in the chokwe kingdom. When ideas and techniques migrated to a new continent, they combined with local traditions to give rise to innovative aesthetic forms.
origin
carl k. Provost (died in 1996), kinshasa (drc) and houston (texas)
important private american collection, acquired from the latter
carl provost would have worked in kinshasa in the congo in the 1960s and a photo of his archives, dating from 1970, shows us his collection. He then moved to texas, to houston, where he worked as an appraiser and merchant; he contributed to the journal african arts and wrote the book the valuation of traditional art: special problems in connoisseurship in 1980.
a mask of his collection was sold on auction at christie's on dec 2013 as part of the african art selection
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- Dimensions
- 14.17ʺW × 16.14ʺD × 34.65ʺH
- Styles
- Mid-Century Modern
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Ebony
- Condition
- Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Patina Consistent with Age and Use Patina Consistent with Age and Use less
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