水タバコ - Léga - DR Congo (No reserve price)

pipe a eau, a traditional Lega culture water pipe from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dating to the mid-20th century, with a dried calabash reservoir decorated by a seed mosaic and bordered with white shells, and an anthropomorphic bone stopper, measuring 30 cm high by 18 cm in both width and depth, provenance: private collection, authentic original, not supplied with a stand.