Artist: Slovak Carver From 18Th Century
Date: 1900
Museum: Fundación Alberto Jiménez-Arellano Alonso - Universidad de Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain)
Technique: Sculpture
Urn of rounded form covered by a patina, which gives the piece a metallic finish. Although most of the surface is mooth, it is adorned with bands decorated with stripes-vertical, horzontal, diagonal and interlaced- and points in the neck and the part immediately below this. These roundend and smooth forms are typical of Chokwe sculpture and are related in turn to the art of the Luba. Four salient pieces, also decorated with points, surround the vessel in the form of handles. The recipient is covered by a lid completed with a masculine figure on foot, with long arms,
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