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Ethnic Design-Crescent shaped terracotta pot, Solongo People, DRC

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Terracotta pot of roughly crescent shape featuring a pair of naively modelled human figures seated on the concave edge, each with arms folded to the abdomen and feet pointing downwards, the female with a flat incised coiffure, the male with a short funnel neck rising from the crown of the head; dull reddish brown glaze. Published:Anthropomorhic terraccotta vessels of Zaire, Leo Polfliet, Fred Jahn Munchen, p 40

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