Lot 82
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ROTSE / BAROTSE PRESTIGE SPOON
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, ZAMBIA
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities | 556
Auction: 1 May 2019 at 12:00 BST
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
Description
carved wood, the handle in the form of a standing rhino with squat legs and curled tail, leading down to a panel decorated with geometric patterns and a shallow bowl
Dimensions
40.5cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Private collection, Scotland.
Note:
There is a playful charm to this inventive spoon. It is the fourth known example from a corpus that appears to be the work of a single workshop and likely single carver active in the early 20th century selling to the colonial market.