Zulu Beer Pot

Offered by ZENA KRUZICK Mid-20th Century Zulu Ceramic Beer Pot, South Africa This large beer pot from the Zulu tribe of South Africa is one of the largest and most impressive tha...

Mid-20th century beer pot cover (Imbengi) Zulu People, South Africa These beaded covers were used over the mouth of a traditional ceramic beet pot, Ukhamba, to protect the sorghum b...

Mid-20th century beer pot cover (Imbengi) Zulu People, South Africa These beaded covers were used over the mouth of a traditional ceramic beet pot, Ukhamba, to protect the sorghum...

An outstanding 20th century monumental tribally-used Zulu hand-built ceramic beer pot with two wide incised chevron bands running around the perimeter of the pot.

An outstanding 20th century tribally-used Zulu hand-built ceramic beer pot with hundreds of applied clay spikes running around the perimeter and forming a repeated diamond pattern ar...

An outstanding 20th century tribally-used Zulu hand-built ceramic beer pot with hundreds of applied clay spikes running around the perimeter and forming a repeated triangle pattern a...

An outstanding 20th century tribally-used Zulu hand-built ceramic beer pot with hundreds of applied clay spikes running around the perimeter and forming a repeated "M" pattern around...

Mid-20th century tribal ceramic beer pot, Zulu People, South Africa. Made of burnished clay with zigzag amasumpa decoration, this pot (umancishane) was used for drinking sorghum b...

Mid-20th century tribal ceramic beer pot, Zulu People, South Africa. Gracefully incised lines decorate this pot (umancishane), which was used for drinking sorghum beer.

Zulu beer pots, or Ukhamba, are shaped with the coil method, then smoothed, incised, indented or embossed with geometric patterns, and finally fired, which hardens the clay and darke...

Horizontal ranks of pointed amasumpa nodes cover almost the entire surface of this Zulu beer pot, or Ukhamba, to dramatic sculptural effect.

Nesta Nala (1940-2005) was an award-winning South African Zulu potter. Nala learnt how to make traditional Zulu beer pots from her mother Siphiwe, who was also a potter.

Madoda burnishes and smoke-fires his ceramics according to the Zulu tradition (used most often in Zulu beer pots) and draws on a vocabulary of symbolic African imagery such as cattle.

A Central African wood pot, vase or vessel. This vintage decorative object from Central Africa is created from a single piece of mahogany accentuated with leather. Tribal art. The ...

An incredible early 20th century Makenge hand-built ceramic palm wine pot with a graceful shape including a narrow neck and a wide belly. The pot is covered in a hand-woven wicker ba...

A delightful and fanciful Chambri Lake fired and pigmented pottery vessel with applied molded face design, mid 20th century Aibom village, Chambri Lake, Middle Sepik River region, Pa...

An incredibly unique wooden vessel carved from a single piece of wood in Uganda. The shape, design and decorative nature of this piece separates from anything else you will find. Th...

1970s carved African wooden ceremonial cup or chalice. Overall fine dark wood patina. Purchased in Cameroon in the 1970s.

The Shi peoples are agriculturalists living on the shores of Lake Kivu in D.R. Congo. Artistically they are best known for their distinctively carved cups and pitchers. This example ...

Rare and refined African metal vase with handmade decorations, an object of great charm capable of furnishing your home space with style and elegance

Very beautiful and well-preserved vintage terracotta vessel with removable lid from the Congo region, Bakongo ethnic group. The fine decoration is partly engraved, but also modeled ...