A CHOKWE RECTANGULAR TABLE, with three horizontal rows of struts, the lowest carved with couples at various activities; copulating, grooming, cupping and shaking hands, the central row with reclining male and female figures, the top row with animals; a snake, a tortoise, a fish and a frog, each on hatched grounds, hide top, black patina, minor damages

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A CHOKWE RECTANGULAR TABLE, with three horizontal rows of struts, the lowest carved with couples at various activities; copulating, grooming, cupping and shaking hands, the central row with reclining male and female figures, the top row with animals; a snake, a tortoise, a fish and a frog, each on hatched grounds, hide top, black patina, minor damages
66cm. high

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Given to the vendor's mother by an anthropologist in the mid 1940s

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