id: 166211
accession number: 2008.152
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.152
updated: 2023-12-08 21:51:33.252000
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
The Language of Beauty in African Art. 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. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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. The language of beauty in African art. 2022.
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