stool - Mayombé - DR Congo (No reserve price)





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Tabouret, a wooden stool from the Mayombe (Yombe) people in DR Congo, dating from the mid-20th century, with provenance from a private collection; dimensions 34 × 20 × 20 cm; weight 2305 g; in good condition.
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Very old stool (tabouret) from the Mayombe (Yombe) in Bandundu Province, DR Congo. Beautiful serene expression. Gorgeous patina.
Materials: wood, pigments. Shipped safely and insured. With certificate.
Belgian private collection of
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek, 1949) graduated in the Graphic Arts department of the Plastic Arts at the Higher Saint-Luc Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf, aka Stef Verstuyf, was until 2014 the art director and creative director in several international advertising agencies and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and figures (not weapons), mainly from Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
Very old stool (tabouret) from the Mayombe (Yombe) in Bandundu Province, DR Congo. Beautiful serene expression. Gorgeous patina.
Materials: wood, pigments. Shipped safely and insured. With certificate.
Belgian private collection of
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek, 1949) graduated in the Graphic Arts department of the Plastic Arts at the Higher Saint-Luc Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf, aka Stef Verstuyf, was until 2014 the art director and creative director in several international advertising agencies and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and figures (not weapons), mainly from Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.

