id:			311742
accession number:	2018.27
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.27
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:58.345000

Bow Stand, 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style carver. Wood and plant fiber; without base: 57.9 x 23 x 10 cm (22 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.27

title:				Bow Stand
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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style carver
technique:	Wood and plant fiber
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: without base: 57.9 x 23 x 10 cm (22 13/16 x 9 1/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		African art rotation
	opening date:   2019-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>African art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20, 2019-October 5, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': "<em>Utotombo: l'art d'Afrique Noire dans les Collections Privées Belges, </em>Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (25 March-5 June, 1988).", 'opening_date': '1988-03-25T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Luba, aux Sources du Zaïre, </em>Musée Dapper, Paris (25 November 1993-17 April 1994).', 'opening_date': '1993-11-25T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Ex: Belgian Colonial Family
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	Dr. Pierre Danhaive, Namur, Belgium
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	Christine Valluet, Paris, France
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	(Dr. William McGuire, Minnesota, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: –2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Debbaut, Jan, Dominique Favart, and G. van Geertruyen. <em>Utotombo: l'art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges : Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, 25 mars-5 juin 1988</em>. Bruxelles: Palais des beaux-arts, 1988.
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	Neyt, François.<em> Luba: to the sources of the Zaire</em>. Paris: Musée Dapper, 1994.
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	Volper, Julien “Étude Iconologique d’un Porte-Flèche Masculin<em>,” Afrique: Archéologie &amp; Arts</em>, 4 (2006).
	page number: 	pp. 77-82
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	Ugochukwu-Smooth, Nzewi.  "Acquisitions 2018: African Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 8-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8.
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	Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth. “Acquisitions 2018: African Art.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019):  8-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8.
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.27/2018.27_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.27/2018.27_full.tif