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, 1996
MCCM 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

On view

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