Palm Wine Cup “Kopa”

Suku people, DR Congo, c. 1900

Carved wood

3” h x 4” w x 2” d (7.62 x 10.16 x 5.07 cm)

Ex–Belgian collection

Price: $750

 
 

A beautiful form, with fine carving. From an old Belgian collection.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Art Africain, Oceanien et Precolombien, Wednesday 10 December 2003, Christie’s

(Paris, 2003), lot 154.

Bourgeois, Arthur P. “Suku Drinking Cups.” African Arts 12, no. 1 (1978): 76-108.

Bourgeois, Arthur P. Art of the Yaka and Suku. Meudon: Alain et Françoise Chaffin,

1984, fig. 29.

Ginzberg, Marc, and Lynton Gardiner. African Forms. Milan: Skira Ed., 2000, p. 70.

Sieber, Roy. African Furniture and Household Objects. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1980.

Phillips, Tom. Africa: The Art of a Continent. Munich: Prestel, 1995, fig. 4.22.

 
 
 
Note the old crack, or wood splitting, at the top of the cup, possibly owing to the nature of the carving.

Note the old crack, or wood splitting, at the top of the cup, possibly owing to the nature of the carving.