bowl
- Museum number
- Af1910,1026.3
- Description
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Pottery bowl with everted lip, with a marbled effect
- Production date
- 1880s
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 15.20 centimetres
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Depth: 15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Exhibited in T. Phillips (ed.), Africa, the art of a continent (London, Royal Academy, 1995) cat.4.20, p.255 (text by Nigel Barley):
This pot of a distinctive yellow clay and the striking and unusual decoration is achieved by splashing the surface with a very thick, resinous, vegetable decoction while it is still hot from baking. The vegetable matter boils off rapidly, leaving an effect almost of wood grain. It is a technique used by a number of peoples around the mouth of the River Zaire.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Acquisition notes
- Af1910,1026.1 to 17 were purchased from the Rev. John H Weeks, and come from northern Angola, the region around San Salvador, where he worked as a Baptist missionary and made the collection between 1881 and 1890 (see his biography). His book 'Among the primitive Bakongo' of 1914 describes the people and their way of life.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1910,1026.3