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Mangbetu

Trumpet

Mangbetu, 1866-1932

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Mangbetu

Trumpet

Mangbetu, 1866-1932

Physical Qualities Ivory, 81 H x 21 W x 7.5 D cm.
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 2002.119
Side-blown mouthpiece within a lozenge shape echoed by a second lozenge shape on the other side; with a female bust as finial bearing basket shaped coiffure; hollow from top to bottom.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2002; Howard and Jane Cohen, Baltimore; Sotheby's 1981; Harold Rome Collection [seen by H. Cohen in his apartment in 1979].

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