Backrest/Stool
Dengese people (Kuba complex), DR Congo, early 20th c.
Carved wood
Ex–Estate of Boris Mirski, Boston, Mass.
L: 17.5” W: 8” (L: 44.45 cm W: 20.32 cm)
Price: $1,150.00
From the estate of Boris Mirski, a well renowned collector of African art.
Although this backrest could be displayed in multiple ways, it looks good floating on a wall, hung vertically as it would have been positioned on the ground (see bottom photo for example).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
African and Oceanic Art, Saturday 18 November 2000, Sotheby’s (New York, 2000), lot 128.
Ginzberg, Marc, and Lynton Gardiner. African Forms. Milan: Skira Ed., 2000, p. 29.
Oldman, W. O. Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens. London: W. O. Oldman,
1900, cat. 44, 25–6.
Dengese backrest hanging vertically (far right)