id:			166211
accession number:	2008.152
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.152
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:09.396000

Pipe bowl, early to mid-1900s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luluwa or Luntu maker. Wood, iron, and copper alloy; overall: 6 x 7.4 x 24 cm (2 3/8 x 2 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2008.152

title:				Pipe bowl
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creation date:			early to mid-1900s
creation date earliest:		1901
creation date latest:		1950
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creditline:			Jo Hershey Selden Fund
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luluwa or Luntu maker
technique:	Wood, iron, and copper alloy
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Implements
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measurements: Overall: 6 x 7.4 x 24 cm (2 3/8 x 2 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Language of Beauty in African Art
	opening date:   2022-04-03T04:00:00
	<i>The Language of Beauty in African Art</i>. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, possibly France
	date: dates unknown, by at least 1987
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	possibly Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris, France
	date: 1990 or later
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	Private collection, Belgium
	date: dates unknown
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	(Galerie Joaquin Pecci, Brussels, Belgium, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: unknown-2008
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2008-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 41
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	Petridis, Constantijn. Luluwa: Central African Art between Heaven and Earth. 2018, 169.
	page number: 	Reproduced; p. 169, fig. 146
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	Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel. <em>The language of beauty in African art. </em>2022.
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