Vessel for Serving Beer by Northern Nguni
Art Institute of Chicago

Vessel for Serving Beer

Northern Nguni · 1940/1950

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Third World Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, by 1994; sold to Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 1994; sold to the Art Institute, 1994.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Women’s Work: African Terracotta Vessels, July 26-Sep. 14, 1997.
  • Chicago, Ill., The Columbia College Art Gallery, Columbia College, African Body Arts: Visual Biographies, Feb. 16-April 11, 1998, no cat.
  • Knoxville, Tenn., Frank H. McClung Museum, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Jan. 10–May 18, 2003.

Literature

Published references

  • “Visual Biographies,” Tribal Arts 17 (Spring 1998), p. 28 (ill.)
  • William J. Dewey, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, exh. cat. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, 2003), p. 34, pl. 33.

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