Three-Lobed Azande Pot

The Azande of northeastern Congo and southwestern Sudan are renowned for their compact, magnificently crafted ceramics. Formed from a light colored clay with deeply incised abrstract designs Azande pottery come in a wide variety of forms. Three lobed pots with a single cylindrical or tapered neck are well known tours de force in the Azande repertory. Following the collapse of the invasion of eastern Congo by Laurent Kabila and his Ugandan and Rwandan military backers in the late 90s, and a subsequent shift in security conditions in neighboring regions of Sudan, substantial quantities of antique ethnographic material began making its way to art traders in Kampala, Nairobi and Dar Es Salam. Within a few years authentic material was becoming scarce and new, poorly executed reproduction began to take their place. This rare and beautiful example has a small essentially invisible repair on the rim but it otherwise intact. It was purchased in 2002. 10″ tall.

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