NUPE VESSEL SUPPORT 11, Nigeria

         

Photographs © Tim Hamill

NUPE
TERRACOTTA VESSEL SUPPORT 11
24" high
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Most Nupe art is abstract, with only some abstracted animals in relief on their doors and rare pots. These tall, elegant flaring forms are supports, buried halfway in the ground to provide a stable base for a stack of the rounder pots. Whole walls of terracotta vessels often lined the inside of Nupe houses. Most of these show evidence of being buried, sometimes with deterioration or encrustation, most often with the exposed top portion darkened with smoke from cooking and fires kept in the home.

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