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Kuba cup
Early xx century
Private collection Brussels

One of the important art forms identified with competition between titled court members among the Kuba are the carved palm-wine drinking
cups. With half of all Bushoong men holding titles in the 1880s, competition for influence was sometimes fierce, and found expression in the
elaboration of these essentially commonplace household objects into works of extraordinary beauty.

Because Kuba individuals of high status signaled their largesse by distributing great quantities of palm wine to their friends and affiliates to
attract a following, the complexity of such art came under public scrutiny. If, as the myths maintain, the inebriation caused by drinking palm
wine led eventually to the formation of the royal line, drinking thus provided the social setting in which office holders were able to play out
through art the precariousness of their own positions within this heatedly contested milieu.


Early 20th century - Wood - Excellent condition

Kuba cup - Kuba - DR Congo  (No Reserve Price)

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