Palm wine cup?

Discussion in 'Tribal Art' started by Potteryplease, Jan 5, 2021.

  1. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

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  2. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    What is the cup made of? Parts look like ceramic, parts look like wood. It also looks like there have been significant repairs. And where did you get the information that it might be a palm wine cup?
     
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  3. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    Palm wine cup was a guess! Cup is definitely wood. The darker parts do indeed look like repairs, but there's also staining from some liquid having run down it. So I didn't know if that was perhaps just discoloration and not a repair. 4623F562-D5B4-409C-8549-79E355E2E91C.jpeg DD2E869C-4E1A-4A7D-B8FE-BE32046A447A.jpeg 0D4D201C-22E0-4173-928E-D43DFCEC30E7.jpeg
     
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  5. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    It does look related to yours, but compared to other Kuba cups I am not convinced that either are genuine (in the sense of having been made by a Kuba carver for their own use). Real Kuba cups have become collectible, and so are likely to be recreated by other carvers, African or otherwise.
     
  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The Kuba cups I have seen are intricately carved, smooth and with much more perfection in the facial features that this one has.
     
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  7. Potteryplease

    Potteryplease Well-Known Member

    Thanks all--
     
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  8. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    Welcome, @James Desbiens.
    Are you saying the cup you have is the same one in the link you have posted, or just similar? If you have one, and have found another, it means there are at least 4 of these things - (the original posted by @Potteryplease, one in a link he posted, yours and the additional one in the link). It also seems that no one knows their actual origin - Kuba, or 19th century plantation folk art? Now I am really curious. If yours is different from the link, can you post pictures, please?
     
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  11. Here is the first that I found. About the same height? The forehead is different https://www.pinterest.com/pin/290552613432565632/
     

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