Lot Essay
The Songo are traders who live near the Chokwe and whose art is obviously influenced by those gifted artists, but the Songo bring a certain grace to all their carvings
19TH CENTURY
Details
A Songo female figure
19th century
Standing with the arms carved in relief, the hands on the chest above a circular fetish cavity in the abdomen, a further cavity in the top of the head, the incised coiffure with panels of hatching and cross-hatching, on two block feet, dark glossy patina
9in. (23cm.) high
19th century
Standing with the arms carved in relief, the hands on the chest above a circular fetish cavity in the abdomen, a further cavity in the top of the head, the incised coiffure with panels of hatching and cross-hatching, on two block feet, dark glossy patina
9in. (23cm.) high
Provenance
Collected in Angola between 1885 and 1895, sold Sotheby's London 21 June 1979, lot 229
Exhibited
Berlin, 1910, see photograph in Sotheby's catalogue, p.159