id: 110791 accession number: 1929.321 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.321 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:13.503000 Vessel in the Form of a Woman's Head, by 1928. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niangara area, northern Mangbetu-style potter. Terracotta; diameter: 30 x 14.6 x 22.1 cm (11 13/16 x 5 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.); overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House 1929.321 title: Vessel in the Form of a Woman's Head title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: by 1928 creation date earliest: 1928 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niangara area, northern Mangbetu-style potter technique: Terracotta department: African Art collection: African Art type: Vessels find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 30 x 14.6 x 22.1 cm (11 13/16 x 5 3/4 x 8 11/16 in.); Overall: 31.2 cm (12 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Acquired by Paul Travis on behalf of the African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players in Ekibondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then-Belgian Congo) date: 1928 footnotes: *
Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32–35, 47. 
citations: The African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players date: 1928 footnotes: *
12/3/1928 letter to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from Hazel Mountain Walker (Gilpin Players, president) and Harry E. Davis (African Art Sponsors, president) reproduced on p. 54 of Adams, Henry et al. Paul Travis 1891-1975. Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2001.
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift date: 1929– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wixom, WIlliam D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." African Arts. 10, no. 3. (April 1977) 16-25. page number: Mentioned: p. 16; reproduced, p. 18, fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296 Petridis, Constantijn, et al. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of art ; Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 107 url: --- IMAGES