ClassificationsAfrican Art
Pipe
Place CreatedSouth Africa, Africa
CultureThembu
DateLate 19th Century
MediumWood, horn, metal
Credit LineGift of the Charles S. Ackerman Fund
DimensionsA and B combined: 11 3/4 × 3 × 1 in. (29.8 × 7.6 × 2.5 cm)
Object number2021.003.001A/B
Exhibition HistoryAfrica: The Art of a Continent (travelling show), Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, October 4, 1995-January 21, 1996; Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, March 1-May 1, 1996; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, June 7-September 29, 1996MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, June 6, 2022 - Present
Published ReferencesTom Phillips, Africa: The Art of a Continent (New York: Prestel, 1995), 211, number 3.29a.
Sandra Klopper, et al., The Art of Southeast Africa: From the Conru Collection (Milano: 5 Continents, 2002).
ProvenanceEx coll. Jonathan Lowen, London, England. Ex coll. Kevin Conru, Brussels, Belgium, by 1995. Purchased by MCCM from Jacaranda LLC, New York, New York.
Status
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- African Art
Late 19th Century
Late 19th Century
Late 19th Century
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19th Century
before 1935
before 1935
ca. 1950
late 19th-early 20th Century
before 1935
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