Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo
Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo
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Ancestral Male Shrine Figure - Basikasingo, eastern Bembe or Buyu People, D. R. Congo

$18,000.00
Renowned for their majestic royal ancestral representations. The prominence of the large and bulging closed eyes refers to the subject’s status as a being endowed with a heightened sense of the spiritual realm. Cared for and kept in a shrine as an important statue which was given given the name of the ancestor it represented.

The east Kivu region is home to a number of peoples, whose sculpture overlaps stylistically. The Hemba, Basikasingo, Bainda, Bakeci, Basu eastern Bembe or Buyu People.

Ex. Leonard Kahan Gallery, New York, and Ex. Christopher and Genevieve McConnell collection

Height: 16 3/8" x Width: 5 1/8" x Depth: 5 ¼"

See Sotheby’s for a similar example; December 4, 2019 Paris “Statue, Sikasingo Lot 103” sold 93,750 EUR, and ours is an outstanding one.

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