Mask - Congo (No reserve price)

This African jar superbly illustrates a Mangbetu art dedicated to the exaltation of beauty. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, some artists — in the village of Niangara and at the court of King Okondo — began the tradition of an anthropomorphic ceramic that established itself as one of the most sensitive expressions of Mangbetu art.
This is one of the most notable witnesses. Transcending the object's functionality, the bust/receptacle blossoms in the curves of the belly, the movement of the neck offering the head its proud bearing. The perfection of form is joined with the refinement of the signs of beauty, expressed in the features of the face or