Sailas Makumba Shona Carved Fruit Serpentine Bust

Item Details

Sailas Makumba (African, 20th Century)
Untitled bust; 20th Century, Shona
Carved fruit serpentine stone sculpture
Signed by hand to base

A carved fruit serpentine stone sculpture of a female bust by listed Southern African artist Sailas Makumba, from Rhodesia, currently Zimbabwe. The realistic work is carved using intricate detail forming various textures and forms of a solid piece of serpentine stone. It is marked with a sticker reading ‘20 Nandi, Chaka’s Mother’.

Dimensions

- 12″ × 20″ × 4″.

Item #

18CHI128-172