FANG/KELE, Gabon. - Lot 94

Lot n° 94
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FANG/KELE, Gabon. - Lot 94
FANG/KELE, Gabon. Wood, skin, fiber. Two "Ngombi" bowed harps. Second half 19th century. 55 x 66 cm and 58 x 60 cm. (accidents and missing parts). Note: Only rare examples can be found in museum and private collections. One example is the harp in the Crosby Brown collection of musical instruments, 1889, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acquisition number: 89.4.3527). Another example is the harp in the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (71.1878.56.1). Provenance: MOEVUS Loches collection. By descent. Part of a group of objects found in an attic in Loches that had not been moved for over a century. Expert : Christian NJIENSI
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