5414 - Democratic Republic of the Congo-Angola, Chokwe, a fine tobacco pipe, late 19th–early 20th century, in the Tipoye style, depicting a hammock traveler. A pair of seated porters holding a colonial-style hammock carrying a person, decorated with fine geometric carved patterns. An old label in the pipe bowl, reading “585,” and a number in white lacquer, “T60,” on the iron rod. The interior of the pipe bowl is lined with iron. L. 51 cm. Provenance: Acquired in the 1930s by Hans Himmelheber in situ.

Democratic Republic of the Congo-Angola, Chokwe, a fine tobacco pipe, late 19th–early 20th century, in the Tipoye style, depicting a hammock traveler. A pair of seated porters holding a colonial-style hammock carrying a person, decorated with fine geometric carved patterns. An old label in the pipe bowl, reading “585,” and a number in white lacquer, “T60,” on the iron rod. The interior of the pipe bowl is lined with iron. L. 51 cm. Provenance: Acquired in the 1930s by Hans Himmelheber in situ. Boris Kegel-Konietzko (1925–2020), Hamburg, Germany, #T60, acquired from the above Published: Nanina Guyer, Michaela Oberhofer, “Fiction Congo,” 2019, Museum Rietberg, fig. 88. Exhibited: “Congo as Fiction—Art Worlds Between Past and Present,” Museum Rietberg, October 22, 2019–February 9, 2020 Ahdrc no. 143965 [1]