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Gotham Gallery
Offering the Finest Quality Sub-Saharan African Art
Beautiful African Zaire Kuba Shoowa Textile
MEASUREMENT: HEIGHT: 30.5 WIDTH: 21 INCHES
MEASUREMENT: HEIGHT: 77.5 WIDTH: 53 CENTIMETERS
MEASUREMENT TEXTILE ONLY
MATERIAL: RAFFIA
ESTIMATED AGE: EARLY 20TH CENTURY
CONDITION: EXCELLENT
REMARKS: WONDERFUL GEOMETRIC DESIGNS EPITOME OF AFRICAN TEXTILE ART
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THESE KUBA SHOOWA TEXTILE WILL MAKE A BEAUTIFUL WALL DISPLAY
This and other Kuba Textile listings came from private collections and was collected during the mid to early part of the 20th Century. They are guaranteed to be old and authentic.
CONDITIONThere may be minor discoloration due to age, overall condition is excellent. Thank you and please view my other items.
BACKGROUND The true jewels of textile art are the small Shoowa cut-pile cloths. Their complex interplay of geometric symbols, inventive rhythm and balance, uniquely individual designs and tight velvet surfaces created objects so mysteriously alluring the Kuba people traded them as currency and were the standard by which a family's wealth and status were judged. These raffia cut-pile cloths, woven by men, were embroidered by women with no stitching visible on the back. Highly prized for their inventive patterns, they are further embellished with tight tufting, leading to the nickname "Kasai velvet". They were sewn together for ceremonial dress and covered royal stools. As a sign of status and to provide for the afterlife they were buried with kings or those fortunate enough to own many.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly
influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see
why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional
object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent
tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.
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