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Tabouret de prestige à cariatide

ca. 1840–1870
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 344
Les chefs luba attachaient une grande importance à ces sièges de fonction. Savamment sculptés et soutenus par des cariatides, ils étaient essentiels à la cérémonie d’investiture durant laquelle un nouveau chef accédait au pouvoir. Chez les Luba, la succession et l’héritage sont matrilinéaires ; aussi les cariatides qui ornent les sièges royaux représentent-elles les ancêtres féminins, qui apportent leur soutien aux dirigeants. Ce siège cérémonial a été attribué au maître de Buli, l’un des artistes africains les plus connus d’avant la colonisation par les Européens. Son style expressif unique transparaît dans le visage allongé, les pommettes saillantes et l’intensité que dégage le personnage.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Titre: Tabouret de prestige à cariatide
  • Artiste: Maître de Buli, peut-être Ngongo ya Chintu
  • Date: v. 1810–1870
  • Aire géographique: Hemba, République démocratique du Congo
  • Technique: Bois et chevilles de métal
  • Dimensions: H. 61 cm
  • Crédits: Achat, dons du Buckeye Trust et de Charles B. Benenson, fonds Rogers et fonds de divers donateurs, 1979
  • Accession Number: 1979.29
  • Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

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